Real de a 2

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 Leon and Granada and in the centre a shield of the Bourbon Dynasty. Legend: HISPANIARUM REX. Mint mark: M crowned. Value sign: R 2. Assayers: A I.

Weight: 6.04 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. 518, type 99, no. 856.

Published in: Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 81 and 127 no. 325.

Monetary Inventory Number: 4174.

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