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1500s or earlier Spanish coins, treasure of 15 pieces !!

$ 26.9

Availability: 20 in stock
  • Certification: COA
  • Denomination: Maravedí
  • Year: 1500s
  • Condition: used
  • Composition: Copper
  • Modified Item: No

    Description

    1500s or earlier Spanish coins, treasure of 15 pieces, metal detector finds !!
    I am a metal detectorist and I communicate and trade with other detectorists around the world.
    I clean the ‘dirt of the ages’ off of the trade coins myself, as I attest in my little COA.
    This lot consists of copper coins found in Spain with a metal detector, and silver coins, as shown.
    Some of the coins have much wear.
    These rare coins date from the “Reconquest” and into the unification period.
    Reconquest was a period in the history of the Iberian Peninsula of about 780 years between the Muslim / Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711, the expansion of the Christian kingdoms throughout Hispania, and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492.
    I find the old copper Spanish ‘pirate’ coins interesting, Spain becoming a great world power after unification.
    Although Spain was extracting much treasure from its colonies, the empire went into bankruptcy several times in the 1500s and 1600s, due to wars and overspending.
    The coins are also fun to identify as to the the King in power at the time.
    You get in this lot:
    Top row:
    Uncleaned bronze Muslim FALS (719 - 1492 A.D.) to show what they look like when dug up
    SILVER AL-ANDALUS COIN, 719 - 1492 A.D., (square coin)
    Small coin, Enrique IV, reign 1454 - 1474 A.D., (Isabella’s brother)
    CATHOLIC KINGS COIN
    (’CATHOLIC KINGS’ COINS.
    The term Catholic Monarchs or Catholic Kings refers to Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose marriage (in 1469) and joint rule marked the unification of Spain. Isabella was eighteen years old and Ferdinand a year younger. It is generally accepted by most scholars that the unification of Spain is traced back to the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella.
    Their greatest achievement was the financing of Columbus, who discovered the New World.
    Isabella died in 1504 and Ferdinand died in 1516.)
    King Enrique IV
    Middle row:
    5 silver Fractionals or fragments, Muslim coinage
    King Philip II, reign 1558 - 1598
    Muslim Fal
    Catholic King
    Bottom row:
    King Enrique IV, reign 1454-1474
    KING PHILIP II
    Fal
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    Picture# = 712span1500s-1
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