Real de a 4

Date: Year 1822

Obverse:

Naked head to the right. Legend: FERN 7 BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE CONST 1822.

Reverse:

Shield crowned and quartered with the arms of Castile and Leon and Granada and in the centre escutcheon of the Bourbon Dynasty. Legend: KING OF SPAIN. Mint mark: M crowned. Value sign: 4 R. Assayers: S R.

Weight: 5.92 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. 578, type 185, no. 763.

Published in: Ramón Sánchez, J.J., 2013: El tresor de Sant Joan d'Alacant, Alicante, 2013, p. 89 and 145 no. 444.

Monetary Inventory Number: 4084.

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