v35_0627 - Monnaie obsidionale de 5 pesetas 1809 Tarragone VG.2145

Monnaie obsidionale de 5 pesetas 1809 Tarragone VG.2145 XF

MONNAIES 35 (2008)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 204.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 204.00 €

Type : Monnaie obsidionale de 5 pesetas

Date: 1809

Mint name / Town : Tarragone

Quantity minted : ---

Metal : silver

Diameter : 39,64 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 26,29 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. Jolie patine de collection

Catalogue references :

VG.2145 - DP.883 - Dav.316 - CCT.393 - CC/214946

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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