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COLOMBIA. 1772-VJ 1/2 Real. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Carlos III (1759-1788). Restrepo 32.1. AU Detail - Cleaned (PCGS).
One of the finest surviving specimens of this historic first 1/2 Real of Colombia, the only one to represent the denomination with a 1 divided in half with a fraction bar, arguably making it a one-year type. Restrepo calls this a "bisected 1" and uses this precise specimen for his illustration. The surfaces are a bit bright from cleaning and show some trivial hairlines. Both sides are lightly granular in areas, more notable on the reverse than the obverse, where some dark scale mingles with peripheral legends. In the 2012 Murias sale, where this was described as "no problems, a very nice specimen of a key rarity," this coin brought $10,350, far surpassing other dates like 1784 that are generally thought to be rarer.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
One of the finest surviving specimens of this historic first 1/2 Real of Colombia, the only one to represent the denomination with a 1 divided in half with a fraction bar, arguably making it a one-year type. Restrepo calls this a "bisected 1" and uses this precise specimen for his illustration. The surfaces are a bit bright from cleaning and show some trivial hairlines. Both sides are lightly granular in areas, more notable on the reverse than the obverse, where some dark scale mingles with peripheral legends. In the 2012 Murias sale, where this was described as "no problems, a very nice specimen of a key rarity," this coin brought $10,350, far surpassing other dates like 1784 that are generally thought to be rarer.
From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins.
From Daniel Frank Sedwick's sale of the Jorge Ortiz Murias Collection (Auction 11), April 2012, lot 1026.
Estimate: $5000.00- $7000.00