v25_1528 - 4 reales 1811 VG.2078
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 60.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
Realised price : 149.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 308.00 €
Starting price : 60.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
Realised price : 149.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 308.00 €
Type : 4 reales
Date: 1811
Metal : silver
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 5,80 g.
Edge : cordonnée et annelée
Coments on the condition:
Usure régulière de circulation sur les reliefs. Cet exemplaire est recouvert d’une jolie patine grise de collection aux reflets arc-en-ciel
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient d’une vente Feuardent de janvier 1922
Obverse
Obverse legend : IOSEPH . NAP . - DEI . GRATIA / . 1811 ..
Obverse description : Tête nue de Joseph Napoléon à gauche.
Reverse
Reverse legend : HISPANIARUM ET IND . REX . M . A . I . // 4 - R..
Reverse description : Écu couronné.
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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