Barcelona 1638 real

Stephen Album sale 43, lot 1392

This specimen was lot 1392 in Stephen Album sale 43 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2022), where it sold for $204. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SPAIN: Felipe IV, 1621-1665, AR real (croat), Barcelona, 1638, very appealing toning, NGC graded MS62." This type was struck in Barcelona 1626, 1630-40, 1653-58 and is rather scarcer than contemporary reales from Segovia. The one real coin was known as a croat in Catalonia.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 3.43 g, 0.931 fine silver, .102 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: KM-23.2, Cal-980, Cayón-5738.

Source:

• 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.
• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 43, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2021.

Link to:

• 1637 croat
• Spain 1638-MD P 4 escudos
• Barcelona 1641 5 sous arms obverse
• Barcelona 1653 real
• Spain 1674 real
• Coins and currency dated 1638
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