Spain 1747-Seg maravedi

This specimen is from the Segovia mint (the mintmark is an aqueduct to the left of the shield obverse). The Spanish mints feature large issues of a variety of copper coins which did not circulate at all in the Spanish American colonies. In the predecimal system which obtained until 1847, 34 maravedis = one real of silver. This one maravedi was worth 1/34 of a real; history does not record the reason for the odd division. This type was struck in Segovia and Madrid 1745-47 and was accompanied by copper two and four maravedis. It was the first of the denomination since 1720 (KM 317).

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: copper.

Catalog reference: Cayón-10135, KM 368.

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 Felipe VI, 1474 a 2020, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2019.
• Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.

Link to:

• 1720-V maravedi
• 1747-M J real
• 1747-M AJ real
• 1747-M J ½ escudo
• 1747-M JB ½ escudo
• 1747-S ½ escudo
• 1747-S 4 escudos
• 1747-M 8 escudos
• 1749-M ½ real
• Catalonia 1755 ardite
• Coins and currency dated 1747
• return to Spanish pre-decimal coinage (maravedis, reales and escudos)