Live auction - fwo_427038 - BOLIVIA – KINGDOM OF SPAIN – PHILIP IV 8 Reales contremarquée pour le Brésil 1653 Potosi

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Estimate :	600 €
Price :	300 €
Maximum bid :	651 €
End of the sale :	13 June 2017 18:32:59
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : 8 Reales contremarquée pour le Brésil

Date: 1653

Mint name / Town : Potosi

Quantity minted : -

Metal : silver

Diameter : 41, mm

Orientation dies : 11 h.

Weight : 26,64 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire frappé sur un flan très irrégulier avec des faiblesses de frappe de part et d’autre

Catalogue references :

Cy6472 - Gom.4701

Obverse

Obverse legend : PHILIPPVS. IIII. D. G. HISPANIARVM. REX.

Obverse description : Écu couronné aux arme d’Espagne / .P. - .H..

Obverse translation : (Philippe IV, par la grâce de Dieu, roi d’Espagne).

Reverse

Reverse legend : .POTOSI. ANO. 1653. .

Reverse description : Colonnes d’Hercule dans un cercle perlé surmontées d’une couronne.

Commentary

Cette pièce de 8 Reales frappée à Potosi sous Philippe IV a été réutilisée et contremarquée pour le Brésil avec un poinçon “600” pour 600 Réis sous le règne d’Alphonse VI du Portugal.

Historical background

BOLIVIA – KINGDOM OF SPAIN – PHILIP IV

(1621-1665)

Philip IV of Spain (1605-1665) is the son of Philip III and Margaret of Austria. He became king on the death of his father in 1621, the year he married Elisabeth of France (1602-1644), the daughter of Henri IV and Marie de Médicis. He is the brother of Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII, and the father of Marie-Thérèse, wife of Louis XIV. Most of his reign will be spent fighting against France. From 1635, Spain entered the Thirty Years War. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, the war continued between France and Spain and did not end until the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659. France definitively lost Catalonia, but acquired Roussillon and Cerdagne. Mazarin and Anne of Austria arrange the Spanish marriage of Louis XIV to the Infanta Marie-Thérèse, whom he married at Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 1660. Widowed, Philippe IV remarried Marie-Anne of Austria, the sister of Leopold I to whom a sick son was born, the future Charles II of Spain (1665-1700), origin of the War of Spanish Succession.