Pasto, Colombia, bust 2 reales, Ferdinand VII (bust of Charles IV), 1822 O, two dots between date and CONST. Restrepo-115.1; KM-74; Cal-894. 6.53 grams. Choice strike for the type with all lettering bold, some central flat spots and old scratches, crude rims (as usual), deeply toned AVF overall, popular one-year type believed to have been struck by fleeing royalists using modified Popayan dies with CONST in legend (unique among colonial issues) in reference to the new Spanish Constitution of 1812.
($200-300)