Real de a 1

Date: Year 1799

Obverse:

Laureate bust right with toupee, ribbon, cuirass and mantle. Legend: CAROLUS IIII DEI GRATIA 1799.

Reverse:

Shield crowned and quartered with the arms of Castile and Leon and Granada and in the centre escutcheon of the Bourbon Dynasty. On the sides, columns of Hercules with scrolled ribbons with the motto PLUS ULTRA. Legend: HISPAN ET IND REX. M mintmark: M surmounted by O. Value sign: 1 R. Assayers: F M.

Weight: 3.14 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. 523, type 123, no. 1059.

Published in: Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 84 and 136 no. 383.

Monetary Inventory Number: 4215.

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