Spain 1600-G M 2 reales

Steve Album sale 55, lot 3009

This specimen was lot 3009 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $390. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SPAIN: Felipe III, 1598-1621, AR 2 reales, Granada, 1600/599-M, cob issue, a pleasing wholesome example, PCGS graded VF35." This type was struck at Granada 1600-08, 1613 and 1615. Other mints included Seville, Toledo and Valladolid.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 6.87 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 6.62 g.

Catalog reference: Cayón-4576, KM-26.3 or KM 17.3, Aureo & Calicó-581, Xavier Calicó-318.

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 Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• Menzel, Sewall, Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins, New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2004.
• ^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.

Link to:

• 1597-G 2 reales, Granada mint
• 1599-S 2 reales
• 1600-Seg C 4 maravedis
• 1600-S 4 reales
• 1600-D 4 reales, Valladolid mint
• 1600-D 8 reales, Valladolid mint
• 1601-G 2 reales, Granada mint
• Coins and currency dated 1600
• return to Spanish pre-decimal coinage (maravedis, reales and escudos)