Barcelona 1626-B trentin
This specimen was lot 200 in Aureo y Calicó sale 448 (Barcelona, March 2025), where it sold for 2,000 € (about US$2,613 including buyer's fees). The catalog description[1] noted, "(1640-1652). Reaper's war. Barcelona. 1 trentí. Obv.: +:FERNANDVS·ET·ELISABET·REGES:. Rev.: SVBVMBRA·A·-LARVM TVA 1626. Countermark arms of Barcelona on the B of a trenti from 1626. Weak strike. Rare. MBC- [about very fine]." This coin was originally struck 1622, 1626 and 1629 with a "B" mintmark between the royal busts (KM 17.1). At some point during the Reaper's War, the arms of Barcelona were stamped over the mintmark (KM 19). Others have an "S" stamped there (KM 18).
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 7 g, 0.990 fine gold, 29-30 mm diameter, this specimen 7.00 g.
Catalog reference: Cayón-6706 (with counterstamp), KM 19 (with arms counterstamp), AC-86, Cru.C.G. 4514b.
- Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
- Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
- [1]Sisó, Teresa, Eduard Domingo and Lluís Lalana, Selección de 500 Monedas, Medallas y Billetes, Barcelona: Aureo y Calicó, 2025.
- Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
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