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This specimen was lot 11113 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $660. The catalog description^[1] noted, "COLOMBIA. 1652 1/2 Real. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Philip IV (1621-1665). Restrepo M16.6. AU-50 (PCGS). 1.84 grams. A full four-digit date on a tiny 1/2 Real on a tight chunky planchet is a near impossibility, but this example shows a complete date on the reverse and HILIPPVS on the obverse. Frosty medium gray with excellent eye appeal. A very choice example. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins. From a hoard discovered by Clyde Hubbard in Medellín in the 1950s and subsequently published by Robert I. Nesmith. Plated in Nesmith's "A Hoard of the First Silver Coins of Nuevo Reino de Granada (Colombia)," 1958, coin #6a, illustrated on plate XXX and in a line drawing on p. 523."