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''Recorded mintage:'' 993,000.
 
''Recorded mintage:'' 993,000.
  
''Specification:'' 27.07 g, .896 fine silver, .785 troy oz ASW.
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''Specification:'' 27.07 g, 0.896 fine silver, .785 troy oz ASW.
  
 
''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-14706]], KM 551.2, [[Silver crowns by Davenport number|Dav-308]].
 
''Catalog reference:'' [[Spanish and Spanish colonial coins listed by Cayón number|Cayón-14706]], KM 551.2, [[Silver crowns by Davenport number|Dav-308]].

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photo courtesy Soler y Llach

This Spanish twenty reales de vellon was struck in Madrid during the regime of José Napoleon, the French emperor's older brother. The "de vellon" coinage system, used 1808-50, set 20 reales = one peso instead of the traditional eight. The coins minted using that standard were not marked in any way different from the concurrent eight reales standard, a source of confusion for collectors today, It must have been a major irritant for the inhabitants of the time.

Recorded mintage: 993,000.

Specification: 27.07 g, 0.896 fine silver, .785 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: Cayón-14706, KM 551.2, Dav-308.

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.
  • Krause, Chester L., and Colin R. Bruce II, Standard Catalog of World Coins: Spain, Portugal and the New World, Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2002.
  • Martí Hervera, Soler y Llach Subastas Internacionales, Subasta Numismática, 5 de Noviembre 2009, Barcelona, 2009.

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