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[[Image:SB824-47653o.jpg|300px|thumb|from the Stack's Bowers 2024 ANA sale, lot 47653]]
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This specimen was lot 47653 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Chicago, August 2024), where it sold for $145. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "[[Spain|SPAIN]]. [[Coinage of Catalonia|Barcelona]]. 4 Quartos, 1811. Joseph Napoleon. PCGS MS-62 Brown." This copper coin was issued from Barcelona for use there and in Catalonia. It was struck 1808-13 and accompanied by copper one ([[Barcelona 1810 quarto|KM 65]]) and two quartos. In the local currency, four quartos = 1/6 [[Barcelona 1811 peseta|peseta]]. This coin is not common but priced rather low in the SCWC. The last local Catalan issue is a rare six quartos dated 1848.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown. 

''Specification:'' copper.

''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-limonite]], KM-67.

''[[Bibliography|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.
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, ''August 2024 Global Showcase Auction, World & Ancient Coins, featuring The Emilio M. Ortiz Collection, The Richard Margolis Collection and The Rutherford Collection,'' Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

''Link to:''
* [[Barcelona 1810 4 quartos]]
* [[Catalonia 1811 1-1/2 cuartos|Catalonia 1811 1½ cuartos]]
* [[Catalonia 1811 3 quartos]]
* [[Barcelona 1811 peseta]]
* [[Barcelona 1811 5 pesetas]]
* [[Spain 1811-C SF 2 reales|1811-C SF 2 reales]]
* [[Spain 1811-C CI 2 reales|1811-C CI 2 reales]]
* [[Spain 1811-V GS 2 reales|1811-V 2 reales]]
* [[Spain 1811-M AI 4 reales|1811-M 4 reales de vellon]]
* [[Spain 1811-V SG 4 reales|1811-V 4 reales]]
* [[Spain 1811-M AI 20 reales|1811-M 20 reales de vellon]]
* [[Spain 1811-V SG 8 reales|1811-V 8 reales]]
* [[Spain 1811-C CI 2 escudos|Spain 1811-C 2 escudos]]
* [[Spain 1811-C CI 8 escudos|Spain 1811-C 8 escudos]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1811]]

[[Category:Selections from the Stack's Bowers 2024 ANA sale]]