^Lot 946 COLOMBIA, Bogotá, cob 1 real, 1653 R, rare, PCGS XF45, ex-Eldorado, ex-Ponte, Nesmith Plate.

COLOMBIA, Bogotá, cob 1 real, 1653 R, rare, PCGS XF45, ex-Eldorado, ex-Ponte, Nesmith Plate. Restrepo-M24.9; S-B7; KM-9; Cal-778. 3.17 grams. Small, oblong flan with the bold pillars struck off-center enough to allow a complete four-digit date in the legend above, full crown and shield on other side (despite the tightness of the flan) with right side of assayer R to left and full denomination I to right, attractively rainbow toned. From a hoard discovered by Clyde Hubbard in Medellín in the 1950s and subsequently published by Robert I. Nesmith, plated as coin 10h on plate XXXI and in a line drawing on p. 529 of his 1958 article, "A Hoard of the First Silver Coins of Nuevo Reino de Granada (Colombia)"; also pedigreed to the Eldorado Collection (Stack's Bowers auction of January 2018, lot 11104) and to the Luis R. Ponte Collection.
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