Spain (15)92(v) F 1/2 real
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This specimen was lot 73359 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2025), where it sold for $660. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN. Cob 1/2 Real, 1592-Fo. Valladolid Mint. Philip II. PCGS VF-30. From the Richard August Collection." This type is listed in Cayón for 1592-98 from Valladolid (shown here), Toledo, Segovia, Granada and Seville. The Valladolid mint did not use a letter for a mintmark but rather four pennants on a single pole, visible to the left of the royal monogram.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 1.69 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 1.61 g.
Catalog reference: Cayón-3435, Cal-178.
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- 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.
- Menzel, Sewall, Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, October 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, featuring the Kirk Menczer Collection of Republican Decimal Minors and the Richard August Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.
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