Spain 1628-S R 4 reales
This specimen was lot 46085 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Costa Mesa, CA, August 2021), where it sold for $384. The catalog description[1] noted, "SPAIN. 4 Reales, 1628-SR. Seville Mint. Philip IV. PCGS AU-55 Gold Shield. A decently struck and largely untoned cob with nearly full date and complete shield." This type was struck by the hammer at Seville 1624-37, 1641-44 and 1648. Similar four reales were struck at Toledo, Segovia, Madrid, Burgos (rare), Cuenca (rare), Valladolid (rare) and Granada (rare). Segovia was also producing four reales using roller dies (KM 98) but no other mint followed suit in the seventeenth century.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 13.73 g, 0.931 fine silver, .408 troy oz ASW.
Catalog reference: Cayón-6027, KM-35.6; Cal-292#1187.
- 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.
- [1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, The August 2021 ANA sale: World and Ancient Coins, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2021.
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