1808, Spain, Majorca, Ferdinand VII. 30 Sous (8 Reales!) Klippe Coin. NGC AU-53!

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1808, Balearic Islands, Mallorca, Ferdinand VII. Silver 30 Sous (8 Reales!) Coin. NGC AU-53!
Civic Necessity issue, struck during French Occupation!
Mint Year: 1808
Mint Place: Majorca
References: Davenport 315, KM-C#L52.1.
Rare!
Denomination: 30 Sous (
value & weight of a 8 reales coin!
) -
Struck in Majorca during the spanish uprising against the french occupation!
Condition:
Certified nad graded by NGC as AU-53!
(
none certified higher at NGC, with only one equally graded, but this one is apparently more attractive and with less bag-marks in my opinion!
)
Weight: 26.79gm
Material: Silver
Obverse:
Four rectangular countermarks showing the value (30 Sous), the ruler (the temporarily deposed Ferdinand VII), and the year of issue (1808.).
Legend: 30. S. / FER. VII / 1808.
Reverse:
Diamond-shaped coat-of-arms of the Balearic isle of Majorca.
On the 2 and 3 May 1808 the
Dos de Mayo
or
Second of May Uprising
of 1808 took place in the outskirts of Madrid. It was a rebellion by the people of Madrid against the occupation of the city by French troops, provoking repression by the French Imperial forces that had tremendous significance. The famous revolt was not particularly impressive but full of images of Spanish heroism and French brutality as the dead included unarmed civilians and a number of women. In addition, the Mamelukes of the Imperial Guard of Napoleon fought residents of Madrid in the Puerta del Sol, wearing turbans and using curved scimitars, thus provoking memories of the Muslim Spain.
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Ferdinand VII
(October 14, 1784 - September 29, 1833) was King of Spain from 1813 to 1833.
The eldest son of Charles IV, king of Spain, and of  his wife Maria Louisa of Parma, he was born in the vast palace of El  Escorial near Madrid.
When his father's abdication was extorted by a  popular riot at Aranjuez in March 1808, he ascended the throne but  turned again to Napoleon, in the hope that the emperor would support  him. He was in his turn forced to make an abdication and imprisoned in  France for almost seven years at the Chateau of Valençay in the town of  Valençay.
In March 1814 the Allies returned him to Madrid. The  Spanish people, blaming the liberal, enlightened policies of the  Francophiles (
afrancesados
) for incurring the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War, at first welcomed
Fernando
.  Ferdinand soon found that while Spain was fighting for independence in  his name and while in his name juntas had governed in Spanish America,  a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution.  Spain was no longer an absolute monarchy under the liberal Constitution  of 1812. Ferdinand, in being restored to the throne, guaranteed the  liberals that he would govern on the basis of the existing  constitution, but, encouraged by conservatives backed by the Church  hierarchy, he rejected the constitution within weeks (May 4) and  arrested the liberal leaders (May 10), justifying his actions as  rejecting a constitution made by the Cortes in his absence and without  his consent. Thus he had come back to assert the Bourbon doctrine that  the sovereign authority resided in his person only.
After he succeeded to the throne in 1788 his one  serious occupation was hunting. Affairs were left to be directed by his  wife and her lover Manuel de Godoy. Although Godoy essentially took  over his wife and his office, the king was favourable towards him for  all his life. When terrified by the French Revolution he turned to the  Inquisition to help him against the party which would have carried the  reforming policy of Charles III much further. But he never took more  than a passive part in the direction of his own government. He simply  obeyed the impulse given him by the queen and Godoy. In 1803, after  smallpox had affected his daughter María Luísa, the king commissioned  his doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis to bring the vaccine to the  Spanish colonies on state expenses.
He had a profound belief in his divine right and the  sanctity of his person. He thought it very important to seem a very  powerful monarch, although his kingdom was treated as a mere dependency  by France and his throne was dominated by the queen and her lover.  Spain allied with France and supported the Continental Blockade, but  withdrew after the Battle of Trafalgar. When Napoleon won from Prussia  in 1807, Godoy returned to the French side, but France no longer  considered Spain a worthy ally. But even the alliance with France, as  it was, made Godoy's rule unpopular and fueled the partido fernandista,  the supporters of Ferdinand, who favored a close relationship with  Great Britain
.
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