Sixteen maravedis

Modern age

 

 

 

Metal: Copper.

Issuing entity: Spain. Philip IV.

Mint: Seville.

Date: Year 1664.

Obverse:

Bust right wearing Austrian fashion. Legend: PHILIPPVS IIII D G.

Reverse:

Shield crowned with the arms of Castile and Leon, Granada, Aragon, Naples and Sicily, Austria, Burgundy, Brabant, Flanders and Tyrol. Legend: HISPANIARVM REX 1664. Mint mark: S. Assayer mark: R. Value mark: 16.

Weight: 4.26 gr. - Diameter: 25 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. 289, type 245, no. 1291.

Published in: Bayo Fuentes, S., Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2010: "Catálogo. Collections", in Ramón Sánchez, J.J. (ed.), Coins. Todas las caras de la Historia. Colecciones numismáticas del MARQ, Alicante, p. 178.

Monetary Inventory Number: 5401.

Purchase. Pérez Cortés Collection.