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This specimen was lot 11056 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $1,080. The catalog description^[1] noted, "COLOMBIA. 1653-PoR 4 Reales. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Philip IV (1621-1665). Restrepo M38.6. VF-30 (PCGS). 12.77 grams. Struck on a very broad planchet, well centered on the reverse, but far off center on the obverse, leaving a substantial unstruck area outside the die edge at the top and left. The P of the assayer and 3 of the date are clear, as is the absolute central obverse. Three quarters of the shield is crisp. The surfaces are dark gray with salvage patina, lightly granular in areas but not heavily corroded anywhere. A natural planchet fissure or crudity is seen at the lower right periphery of the obverse, beneath the right pillar. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins."

KM 10.1, 1653-NR POR listed, type struck 1651-65, 13.53 g, .931 fine silver.