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This specimen was lot 11117 in Stack's Bowers NYINC sale (New York, January 2018), where it sold for $456. The catalog description^[1] noted, "COLOMBIA. 1662 1/2 Real. Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino (Bogotá) mint. Philip IV (1621-1665). Restrepo M16.6. AU-53 (PCGS). 1.90 grams. Lustrous and colorfully toned with exceptional eye appeal. The cross is perfectly centered on the tight planchet and all four digits of the 1662 date are at least partially visible at the upper left of the cross, enough for confirmation. A lovely and important coin. From the Eldorado Collection of Colombian and Ecuadorian Coins. Provenance: 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 #6e, illustrated on plate XXX and in a line drawing on p. 524."