Live auction - fwo_458607 - SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III 2 Escudos 1618 Séville
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| Estimate : | 1 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 12 December 2017 18:09:29 |
Type : 2 Escudos
Date: 1618
Mint name / Town : Séville
Quantity minted : -
Metal : gold
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,71 g.
Edge : lisse
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan très irrégulier avec une bonne partie des légendes hors flan. L’année est parfaitement lisible. La pièce présente une usure normale de circulation
Obverse
Obverse legend : [PHILIPP]VS. III. D. [GRATIA°] / S. G..
Obverse description : Écu à multiples quartiers sommé d'une couronne coupant la légende en haut.
Obverse translation : (Philippe III par la grâce de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [HISPANIARVM R]EX. 1618..
Reverse description : Croix potencée dans un double quadrilobe trèflé aux angles, cantonné de quatre annelets.
Reverse translation : (Roi des espagnoles).
Commentary
Les exemplaires avec le millésime apparent et bien lisible sont toujours plus rares et recherchés que les pièces moins bien frappées ou non datées.
Historical background
SPAIN - 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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