Spain (1474-1504)-S blanca
This specimen was lot 3584 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $65.45. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN: Fernando and Isabel, 1474-1504, AE blanca, ND, crowned monogram with flanking S's and legend around // crowned monogram with flanking ornaments and legend around, crude wavy flan, a few bits of oxidation, EF." The "S's" on each side of the monogram "F" mark this as a product of the Seville mint. Cayón assigns 87 different catalog numbers to this type, struck at Burgos, Coruña, Cuenca, Granada, Segovia, Seville (shown here) and Toledo with many privy marks. None are listed as rare.
Specification: billon, this specimen 0.91 g.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Catalog reference: Calicó-656, Cayón-2412.
- 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 Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 38, featuring the Dabestani Collection of Persian Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2020.
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