4 Escudos

Ecuador's early gold coinage was struck at the Quito mint, which inherited both the equipment and the workforce of the colonial Casa de Moneda de Quito — an institution founded in 1572 that had operated continuously through independence. The new republic's transition to sovereign coinage was administratively messy; the 1836 start date for this type reflects years of political instability following the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830, which left Ecuador scrambling to establish functioning monetary institutions.

KM#19 is notably scarce in any grade. Quito's output during this window was modest, and the mint closed definitively in 1862.