Real de a 2 Year 1719.

Modern age

Metal: Silver.
Issuing entity: Spain. Philip V.
Mint: Madrid.
Date: Year 1719.
Obverse:
Shield crowned and quartered with the arms of Castile, Leon, Granada, Aragon, Sicily, Austria, ancient and modern Burgundy, Parma, Tuscany, Brabant, Flanders and Tyrol. In the centre, the escutcheon of the house of Bourbon. Legend: PHILIPPUS V D G. Mint mark: M crowned. Value mark R II, mint mark. Assayer: J.

Reverse:
Equilateral cross with castles and lions inscribed in a poly-lobed border. Legend: HISPANIARUM REX 1719.

Weight: 4.70 g - Diameter: 26 mm - Axes: 12 h.
Described in: Calicó Estivill, F., Calicó Estivill, X., Trigo Real, J., 1994: Spanish coins from Ferdinand and Isabella to Juan Carlos I. Years: 1474 to 1994. Years: 1474 to 1994, Barcelona, p. 384, type 173, no. 983.

Published in:
Ramón Sánchez, J.J., Ibáñez Sarrió, C., 2010: "Catálogo. Edad Moderna y contemporánea", in Ramón Sánchez, J.J. (ed.), Monedas. Todas las caras de la Historia. Colecciones numismáticas del MARQ, Alicante, p. 161; Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 61 and 100 no. 24.
Monetary Inventory Number: 4091.
A chance find. Treasure of Sant Joan d'Alacant