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Bogota, Colombia, gold cob 2 escudos, 1632 A, very rare, ex-Santa Fe, ex-Caballero, Calico Plate, Re

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Cobs - Gold Start Price:1,600.00 USD Estimated At:2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD
Bogota, Colombia, gold cob 2 escudos, 1632 A, very rare, ex-Santa Fe, ex-Caballero, Calico Plate, Re
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Bogota, Colombia, gold cob 2 escudos, 1632 A, very rare, ex-Santa Fe, ex-Caballero, Calico Plate, Restrepo Plate. Restrepo-M50.9; S-B20; KM-unl; Cal-1789. 6.71 grams. A somewhat famous coin, featured in published collections and references as the only dated specimen known of its type for this assayer (tiny fleurs, thin cross), with full NR-A to left and clear denomination II (reading vertically) to right, choice full shield and cross, slightly odd shape that serendipitously allows for a full and clear 32 of date, the 2 being punched over something else but decidedly not an upside-down 2 as asserted in Restrepo, AU- with contrasting sediment in crevices. Pedigreed to the Santa Fe Collection (Sedwick Auction of October 2011, lot 21) and the Caballero de Yndias Collection (Aureo and Calico auction of April 2009, lot 118), also Plate Coin on page 300 of the 8th edition of Calico's Numismatica espanola, and on page 85 of Restrepo's Coins of Colombia (4th ed., 2012).