v31_1103 - SPANISH AMERICA - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III Huit réaux n.d. Potosi

SPANISH AMERICA - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III Huit réaux n.d. Potosi VF

MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 200.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
Realised price : 221.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 221.00 €

Type : Huit réaux

Date: n.d.

Mint name / Town : Potosi

Metal : silver

Diameter : 41 mm

Orientation dies : 2 h.

Weight : 27,09 g.

Coments on the condition:

Cette pièce de huit réaux est frappé sur un flan irrégulier, court et présentant un éclatement à 3 heures au droit. Exemplaire recouvert d’une légère patine grise

Catalogue references :

CCT.n° 122-123 p. 217

Predigree :

Monnaie n° 43 du trésor de la région de Barbezieux

Obverse

Obverse legend : [...]. III. DEI G[RATI]A.

Obverse description : Écu à multiples quartiers, sommé d’une couronne coupant la légende, accosté à gauche de °M/F, à droite d’un 8.

Obverse translation : (Philippe II, par la grâce de Dieu).

Reverse

Reverse legend : [...]V[M.] R[...].

Reverse description : Champ écartelé aux 1 et 4 de Castille, aux 2 et 3 de Léon dans un double octolobe.

Reverse translation : (Roi d’Espagne).

Commentary

Poids avant restauration : 27,14 g.

Historical background

SPANISH AMERICA - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III

(1598-1621)

Philip III (1578-1621) is the third son of Philip II, from his fourth marriage, that with Ana of Austria. On the death of his father in 1598, he became king of Spain and the Americas, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands and the Milanese. He continued his father's fight against France, but with the Edict of Nantes, the end of the religious wars and the personality of Henri IV, this policy failed. He then began an economic war in order to asphyxiate France by imposing 30% duty on goods coming or going to France in 1603. Henri IV replied by imposing the same taxes on goods to or from Spain. After the death of Henri IV, Philippe married his daughter Anne of Austria (1601-1666) to the young Louis XIII in 1615, while the latter's sister, Elisabeth, married the future Philippe IV. Philip III died in 1621.