Real de a 1

Modern age

 

 

 

Metal: Silver.

Issuing entity: Spain. Charles IV.

Mint: Madrid.

Date: Year 1808

Obverse:

Nude bust right with toupee, ribbon and royal mantle. Legend: CAROLUS IIII DEI G 1808.

Reverse:

Shield crowned and quartered with the arms of Castile and León and Granada. In the centre, escutcheon of the Bourbon dynasty. Legend: HISPANIARUM REX. Mint mark: M crowned. Value mark: R 1. Assayers: A I.

Weight: 2.92 gr. - Diameter: 20 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, Barcelona, p. 522, type 115, no. 996.

Published in: Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 81 and 127 nº 329.

Monetary Inventory Number: 4219.

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