v09_1665 - SPAIN - FERDINAND VII - SIEGE OF TARRAGONA 5 pesetas, monnaie obsidionale 1809 Tarragone
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 152.45 €
Starting price : 152.45 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 152.45 €
Type : 5 pesetas, monnaie obsidionale
Date: 1809
Mint name / Town : Tarragone
Metal : silver
Diameter : 39,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 26,79 g.
Edge : chaînée
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire pour une monnaie de siège. Petites faiblesses de frappe au droit et au revers. Petites traces de manipulation dans le champ
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire vient de la collection du Dr. M. G.
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Écu aux armes d'Aragon couronné ; ornement circulaire.
Reverse
Reverse legend : FER./ VII/ 5. PS/ 1809..
Reverse description : dans des cartouches en creux ; ornement circulaire.
Historical background
SPAIN - FERDINAND VII - SIEGE OF TARRAGONA
(1809)
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. The resistance is organized in Spain against the French under the direction of local juntas as in Tarragona. The city was stormed by the troops of Marshal Suchet in 1811. 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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