Spain 1606-Seg 8 maravedis

from the Mountain Groan Collection

This specimen is from a Spanish type milled at the Segovia mint 1601-20. It has a low catalog value. Early issues of the reign have the shield and the lion in an octolobe. The SCWC also lists hammered eight maravedis from the same mint (KM 15.5) as well as Burgos, Cuenca, Toledo and Valladolid. Thirty four maravedis made a real.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: KM 16, Cayón-4354.

Source:

• Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, vol. 1, 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.

Link to:

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• 1605-T^O 8 reales
• 1606-Seg maravedi
• 1606-Seg 2 maravedis
• 1606-Seg 4 maravedis
• 1606-G 2 escudos
• 1607-Seg 2 maravedis
• 1607-Seg 8 maravedis
• 1607-Seg escudo
• 1610-Seg ½ real
• 1610-S 2 escudos
• Coins and currency dated 1606
• return to Spanish pre-decimal coinage (maravedis, reales and escudos)