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Cartagena, Colombia, cob 2 escudos, 1635E, choice, Lasser-Restrepo Plate Coin.

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Cartagena, Colombia, cob 2 escudos, 1635E, choice, Lasser-Restrepo Plate Coin.
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Cartagena, Colombia, cob 2 escudos, 1635E, choice, Lasser-Restrepo Plate Coin. S-C7, KM-4.6, CT-137. 6.7 grams. One of the finest known specimens anywhere, with clear date and •C•E•, choice full shield and cross, bold ordinal •II•, near AU with contrasting sediment on fields, also highly pedigreed, as a coin of such ultimate quality should be. Pedigreed to the Joseph Lasser collection, Plate Coin in his book The Cob Coinage of Colombia (2000) and Restrepo's Monedas de Colombia (2009).