Twenty reales

Date: Year 1809.

Obverse:

Nude bust of Joseph Bonaparte to the left. Caption: IOSEPH NAP DEI GRATIA 1809.

Reverse:

Shield crowned and quartered with the marks of Castile, Leon, Aragon, Navarre, Granada and the Indies and in the centre the escutcheon of Bonaparte. Legend: HISPANIARUM ET IND REX. Mint mark: M crowned. Value mark: 20 R. Assayers: A I.

Weight: 27.05 gr. - Diameter: 40 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. 536, type 7, no. 23.

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. 164; Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 86 and 138 no. 403.

Monetary Inventory Number: 3803.

A chance find. Treasure of Sant Joan d'Alacant.