Live auction - fwo_410293 - BOLIVIA - CHARLES IV 8 Reales contremarquée 1805 Potosi
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| Estimate : | 700 € |
| Price : | 670 € |
| Maximum bid : | 750 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 December 2016 18:11:36 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : 8 Reales contremarquée
Date: 1805
Mint name / Town : Potosi
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 896 ‰
Diameter : 39 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,78 g.
Edge : décorée
Coments on the condition:
La monnaie présente une usure normale de circulation. Elle est recouverte d’une fine patine grise. Magnifique portrait en contremarque
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CAROLUS. IIII. - DEI. GRATIA // .1806..
Obverse description : Buste lauré à droite de Charles IV d’Espagne.
Obverse translation : (Charles IV par la grâce de dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : .HISPAN. ET IND. REX. PTS. 8 R. P. J..
Reverse description : Écu couronné à cinq quartiers entre les Colonnes d'Hercule avec un bandeau inscrit PLUS - ULTRA.
Reverse translation : (roi des Espagnols et des Indes).
Commentary
Cet exemplaire est des plus intéressants. A l’avers notons la présence d’une contremarque à l’effigie de Napoléon Ier ou de son frère Joseph Bonaparte, roi d’Espagne à partir de 1808. Cette monnaie est sans doute destinée à circuler dans le royaume d’Espagne. Il est courant de rencontrer des exemplaires de 8 reales contremarqués pour les colonies espagnoles d’Amérique du Sud. Ici la contremarque est toute autre, de style très fin et atypique. Au revers nous avons le monogramme couronné de Napoléon.
Historical background
BOLIVIA - CHARLES IV
(14/12/1788-10/05/1808)
Charles IV (12/11/1748-19/01/1819) is the second son of Charles III and Marie-Amélie de Saxe. He married Marie-Louise de Parme (1751 -1819) in 1765. The royal family of Spain at the time was immortalized by Goya. He succeeded his father in 1788. It was Godoy, his favorite who in fact governed Spain with his wife. Returning to French orbit after 1795, he allied himself with Napoleon I and was defeated at Trafalgar. After the uprising of Aranjuez (March 1808), he abdicated in favor of his eldest son, Ferdinand VII, retracted, then entrusted his kingdom to Napoleon who installed his brother, Joseph Bonaparte there. Charles IV lived in exile in Compiègne, in Marseilles, then finally in Naples with his brother Ferdinand IV, king of the Two Sicilies where he died in 1819.
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