Spain 1612-S D 4 reales

Stack's Bowers October 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 73360

This specimen was lot 73360 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, October 2025), where it sold for $408. The catalog description^[1] noted, "SPAIN. Cob 4 Reales, 1612-S D. Seville Mint. Philip III. PCGS VF-35. From the Richard August Collection." The SCWC lists this type for 1599-1604, 1610-21. Assayers B, D and V are recorded for 1612. The assayer initial on this example is badly doubled and may actually be a "B". Similar four reales cobs were also struck at Toledo, Valladolid, Granada, Segovia and Madrid.

Recorded mintage: unknown but a common date for the type.

Specification: 13.73 g, 0.931 fine silver, this specimen 13.73 g.

Catalog reference: Cayón-4774, KM-33.4; Cal-809.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1601-1700, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2014.
• 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.

Link to:

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• 1611-S 8 reales
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• Mexico 1612-Mo F 4 reales
• 1612-S B 4 reales
• 1612-S D 8 reales
• 1613-S 4 reales
• 1613-T^O 4 reales
• 1621-MD 4 reales
• Coins and currency dated 1612
• return to Spanish pre-decimal coinage (maravedis, reales and escudos)