Spain (1552-66)-C 4 maravedis
This specimen was lot 3585 in Stephen Album sale 38 (Santa Rosa, CA, September 2020), where it sold for $41.65. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN: Fernando and Isabel, 1474-1505, AE 4 maravedis, Cuenca, ND, struck 1552-1566, environmental damage, NGC graded VF details. Minted by order of Charles V from 1552 and by Philip II from 1556 to 1566 with the Catholic Monarchs' (Reyes Católicos) names in the legend. The patriarchal cross at right of castle is the symbol of the official of the mint Pedro Román, who worked in Cuenca in 1550-1576. Incorrect mint name listed on the slab." This undated type was struck at Burgos, Coruña, Cuenca (shown here), Granada, Segovia, Seville and Toledo. Some circulated in the early Spanish settlement of Santo Domingo on Hispaniola. We don't know if any were struck during the lifetime of Fernando and Isabel.
Specification: copper.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Catalog reference: Cal-567, Cayón-2502.
- 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.
- Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, Standard Catalog of World Coins: Spain, Portugal and the New World, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
- [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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