v08_1806 - 20 reales 1er type 1809 Madrid F.2066/
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 198.18 €
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 198.18 €
Type : 20 reales 1er type
Date: 1809
Mint name / Town : Madrid
Quantity minted : 699769
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 875 ‰
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 27,10 g.
Edge : cordonnée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière. Jolie patine de collection / Infime petit coup sur le listel à 11 heures au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IOSEPH. NAP. - DEI. GRATIA. / 1809..
Obverse description : Tête nue de Joseph Napoléon à gauche.
Obverse translation : (Joseph Napoléon par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : HISPANIARUM ET IND. REX (M COURONNÉE) A.I..
Reverse description : Écu couronné à sept quartiers parti et écartelé : au 1 de Castille, au 2 de Léon, au 3 d'Aragon, au 4 de Navarre, au 5 de Grenade au 6 des Indes et sur le tout aigle de Joseph, accosté de 20 - R..
Reverse translation : (roi des Espagnols et des Indes).
Historical background
SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - JOSEPH NAPOLEON
(6/06/1808-11/12/1813)
French troops commanded by Murat invaded Madrid on May 1, 1808. On May 2, "Dos de Mayo" immortalized by Goya, the people rose up. The repression is terrible. On the 5th, by the Treaty of Bayonne, Charles IV abdicated and Ferdinand VII renounced the throne. On June 6, Napoleon chose his brother Joseph to reign over Spain. It was the start of the Spanish Civil War which was Napoleon I's first defeat. On December 11, 1813, the Treaty of Valençay returned the crown to Ferdinand VII, who had been a prisoner since 1808..
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