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Modern age

 

 

 

Metal: Silver.

Issuing entity: Spain. Philip IV.

Mint: Segovia.

Date: Year 1628.

Obverse:

Shield crowned with the arms of Castile and Leon, Granada, Aragon, Naples and Sicily, Austria, Burgundy, Brabant, Flanders and Tyrol. Legend: PHILIPPVS IIII D G.

Reverse:

Equilateral cross with castles and lions inscribed in a poly-lobed border. Legend: HISPANIARVM REX 1628. Mint mark: aqueduct. Value mark: I. Assayer: P.

Weight: 3.23 gr. - Diameter: 19 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. 274, type 156, no. 810.

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. Numismatic collections of the MARQ, Alicante, p. 157.

Monetary Inventory Number: 2150.

MARQ collection. Ancient Numismatic Collection.