fwo_924345 - SPANISH AMERICA - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III 8 Reales n.d. Potosi
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Type : 8 Reales
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Potosi
Quantity minted : -
Metal : silver
Diameter : 38,25 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 27,18 g.
Edge : lisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Écu à multiples quartiers, sommé d’une couronne coupant la légende, accosté à gauche de °M/F, à droite d’un 8.
Obverse translation : (Philippe II, par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse description : Champ écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Castille, aux 2 et 3 de Léon dans un double octolobe.
Reverse translation : (Roi d’Espagne).
Commentary
La date est hors champ. Cette monnaie a été frappée entre 1612 et 1616.
Historical background
SPANISH AMERICA - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III
(1598-1621)
Philip III (1578-1621) is the third son of Philip II, from his fourth marriage, that with Ana of Austria. On the death of his father in 1598, he became king of Spain and the Americas, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands and the Milanese. He continued his father's fight against France, but with the Edict of Nantes, the end of the religious wars and the personality of Henri IV, this policy failed. He then began an economic war in order to asphyxiate France by imposing 30% duty on goods coming or going to France in 1603. Henri IV replied by imposing the same taxes on goods to or from Spain. After the death of Henri IV, Philippe married his daughter Anne of Austria (1601-1666) to the young Louis XIII in 1615, while the latter's sister, Elisabeth, married the future Philippe IV. Philip III died in 1621.
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