Real de a 2

Modern age

 

 

 

Metal: Silver.

Issuing entity: Spain. Archduke Charles.

Mint: Barcelona.

Date: Year 1711.

Obverse:

Shield crowned with the arms of Castile and Leon, Granada, Aragon, Naples and Sicily, Austria, Burgundy, Brabant, Flanders and Tyrol. Legend: CAROLVS III D G. Value mark: R II.

Reverse:

Crowned monogram of Archduke Charles as Charles III. Legend: HISPANIARVM REX 1711.

Weight: 4.97 gr. - Diameter: 26 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. 408, type 6, no. 24.

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. 161;
Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 60 and 99, nº 7.

Monetary Inventory Number: 4089.

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