Online Coin Auction #57

ANCIENT GREECE. Two Tetroboli minted in Chersonesos between the V-IV centuries BC, both set in 22 karat gold with a total weight of 7.70 grams. Total weight: 12.52g. Contains a certificate of authenticity from Jesús Vico. Good Very Fine.
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ANCIENT GREECE. Coin of Alexander III the Great minted in Macedonia and in a setting of 15.20 grams of 22 Carat. Total Weight: 19.34g. Contains a certificate of authenticity from Jesús Vico. Good Very Fine. Nice piece.
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CARLOS III (1759-1788). Delights of the Arts. (Ae. 158.33g / 64mm). 1764. Uniform proof of the reverse gap. Two female figures symbolizing painting and architecture. In exergue: PS (Pedro Sepúlveda?) 1764. Almost Extremely Fine. The non-engraved side has numerous markings. Very interesting.

This work is most likely an exercise in his engraving based on a piece by Massimiliano Soldani-Benzi (1658-1740) made for the architect Cyro Ferri in 1680.
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CARLOS III (1759-1788). Wedding of Leopoldo of Austria and the Infanta of Spain María Luisa. (Ar. 25.92g / 40mm). 1766. Engraver: Wideman. (MHE 484). Anv: Facing busts of Leopoldo with breastplate, mantle and collar of the fleece, and of María Luisa with court dress, between both legend: WIDEMAN, around legend: LEOPOLD ARCHID AVST M LVDOV INF HISP. Rev: Hymenaeus with a lit torch and the shield with the arms of Spain, disembarks to the left and advances towards a matron with a mural crown, cloak and shield of Austria, around the legend: FOEDUS AMORIS, in exergue: NUPT CELEB OENIP. Very Fine. Welding remains on the edge.
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CARLOS III (1759-1788). Real Sevillian Economic Society of Friends of the Country. (Pb. 104.21g / 68mm). 1778. Engraver: A. de Saa. (RAH 315-316 metal variation). Anv: Guadalaquivir represented as an old man leaning to the right with a rudder and a jug from which the water flows towards the cultivated fields, in the background, under a large cloud, two ships sailing under sail, above the legend: BIBE DUM FLUO MOX REFLUAM. Rev: Two spinners and a carding machine with their utensils, in the bottom left, a weaver with his loom in operation, above the legend: DIES ET INGENIUM, in exergue: SOCIET PATR HISPAL / A SAA F MDCC LXXVIII. Very Fine. Strange.
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CARLOS III (1759-1788). Prize of the School of Noble Arts of Sevilla. (Ae. 60.53g / 53mm). 1778. Engraver: A. de Saa. (Vives 53; RAH 317; MHE 368, same issue). Anv: Laureate bust of Carlos III with breastplate, band, mantle and collar of the fleece, around legend: CAROLUS III DG HISP REX. Rev: Personifications of Sculpture, Painting and Architecture, which raise a royal crown, around legend: TRINO RAPTA LABORE, in exergue: HISPAL A 1778. VF +. Scratch.
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CARLOS III (1759-1788). Prize from the Real Sevillian Economic Society of Friends of the Country. (Pb. 41.91g / 40mm). 1778. Engraver: Tomás F. Prieto. (RAH 318 metal variation; MHE 362, same specimen). Anv: Laureate bust of Carlos IV on the left with jacket, band and necklaces of the fleece and of the order of Carlos III, around legend: CAROLVS III CATHOLICVS. Rev: Laurea and pen intertwined, above tape with legend: PRODESSE LABORAT, below on a pedestal inscribed: SOCIETAS OECONOMICA / HISPALENSIS / A DE MDCCLXXVIII. Almost Extremely Fine. Light tap.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Mexico. (Ar. 48.21g / 46mm). December 27, 1789. Mexico. Engraver: GA Gil. (H 160; Vives 133). Anv: Head of Carlos IV with the necklace of the Holy Spirit, around legend: TO CARLOS IV, KING OF SPAIN AND OF THE INDIES. Rev: Horned oval Escudo over an imperial eagle which holds a bow, a quiver with arrows and a sacrificial knife, inside a bridge defended by a castle supported by two lions on both sides, surrounded by ten nopal leaves, around the legend: IN ITS EXALTATION TO THE THRONE THE CITY OF MEXICO, in exergue: DECEMBER 27 / 1789. Extremely Fine. Tapping on the edge. Light iridescent patina. Beautiful and rare specimen.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Veracruz, Mexico. (Ar. 30.04g / 40mm). 1789. Engraver: GA Gil. (Vives 717 var; RAH 273 var). Anv: Bust of Carlos IV with coat, shirt with jabot, band and cloak, around legend: CAROLUS IV DG HISPAN ET INDIA R. Rev: Escudo on ledge, cut with castle and cross on top, on the two columns of Hercules with ribbons and the inscription: PLVS-VLTRA, around thirteen stars and external decorations with laurel leaf festoons topped with large daisies intertwined with ribbons, around the legend: NOV VEREACRUZ PROCLAM AN 1789, in exergue: SEBASTIAN PEREZ. Almost Extremely Fine. Limited. Tap on the edge.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Orizaba, Mexico. (Ar. 24.34g / 40mm). 1790. (Vives 153 metal variation). Anv: Laureate bust of Carlos IV on the right, around legend: TO CARLOS IV, REY DE ESPAÑA Y DE LAS YNDIAS, below legend: APRIL II, 1790. Rev: Escudo crowned and quartered with five stars, tree, rampant lion on the left and a sailing ship, in the center oval escusón quartered with lions and castles, behind an extended eagle holding a ribbon that surrounds the shield with the inscription: BENIGNO THE FERTILE CLIMATE THE SOIL COMMODUS THE SITE AND LOYAL THE PEOPLE, around legend: IN ITS PROCLAMATION OF THE VERY LOYAL VILLA DE Very Fine YEAR OF 1790. VF. Some tap on the edge. Very rare.

After declaring war against England in 1796 and for which an attack on the Port of Veracruz was feared, the viceroy of New Spain, the Marquis of Branciforte, decided that Orizaba would temporarily become the capital of the Viceroyalty. Orizaba, became the capital, then, between 1797 and 1798, another privilege that joins the one that Carlos III granted it a few years before in January 1774 when giving it the category of town.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Sevilla. (Ar. 23.78g / 35mm). 1789. Engraver: F. Gordillo. (Vives 98; RAH 386). Anv: Semifrontal bust of Carlos IV laureate with jacket, shirt with frills, band, cloak and the cross of the Holy Spirit, around the legend: CAROL IV DG HISP ET IND REX. Rev: San Fernando crowned with armor, mantle, sword and cruciferous globe, between San Isidoro and San Leandro both with miter and staff, above legend: PROC SPQ HISPAL 1789, in exergue: NO-8-DO. Very Fine. Cleaned.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Presence of the Real Family in Sevilla offering honors to the tomb of San Fernando. (Ae. 31.51g / 48mm). 1796. Sevilla. Engraver: Pardo on the cut and JB Amat on the reverse. (Vives 183). Ob: Bust of Carlos IV with cuirass, cape and fleece, around legend: CAROLVS IV REX CATHOL HISPALI PIVS. Rev: In front of a semicircular arches the Kings and the Prince of Austrias kneeling on the tomb of San Fernando, around legend: SOLVTIS CAELESTI NVMINI VOTIS, in exergue: HISPAL SCHOL MDCC / LXXXXVI. Very Fine.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Voto de los Reyes and Principe Fernando at the Academy of Sevilla. (Gilt bronze. 38.96g / 49mm). 1796. Engravers: Pardo and JBA. (Vives 183). Ob: Bust of Carlos IV with cuirass, cape and fleece, around legend: CAROLVS IV REX CATHOL HISPALI PIVS. Rev: In front of a semicircular arcade, the Kings and Prince of Asturias kneeling before the tomb of San Fernando, around the legend: SOLVTIS CAELESTI NVMINI VOTIS, in exergue: HISPAL SCHOL MDCCLXXXXVI. Good Very Fine. Cleaned. Tapping on the edge.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Soria. (Ar. 11.20 / 30mm). 1789. Engraver: A. Martínez. Module of 4 Reales. (Vives 105; H-101). Anv: Busts of Carlos IV, with coat, shirt with jabot, band, mantle and collar of the fleece, and of the queen, with court dress, around legend: CAROLUS IV ET ALOYSIA AUGUSTI. Rev: Spain standing on a base looking to the right, holding royal banner and oval shield with castle of three crenellated towers, around legend: NUMANTIN ACCLAMATIO, in exergue: SUMPT COMIT DE GOMARA / SIGNIF MAY AN MDCCLXXXIX. Good Very Fine. Minimal tap on the edge. Nice tone. Limited.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Soria. (Silver bronze 1.03 / 29mm). 1789. Engraver: A. Martínez. Module of 4 Reales. Uniform test. Anv: Busts of Carlos IV, with jacket, shirt with jabot, band, mantle and collar of the fleece, and of the queen, with court dress, around legend: CAROLUS IV ET ALOYSIA AUGUSTI. Extremely Fine.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Valencia. (Ar.3.63g / 23mm). 1789. Module of 2 Reales. (Vives 698; RAH 396). Ob: Draped bust of Carlos IV, around legend: D CARLOS IV REY DE ESPAÑA. Rev: Escudo crowned with bat in lozenge and the arms of the city, among crowned L, around legend: PROCLAMED IN VALENCIA. Almost Extremely Fine. Beautiful patina.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Valencia. (Ar., 12.93g / 35mm). 1789. Engraver: M. Peleguer y Tossar. (H-107). Ob: Bust of the king with breastplate, band, cloak and collar of the fleece, around legend: CAROLVS IIII REX CATHOL INAVGVRANTVS, under the bust: MDCCLXXXIX. Rev: Spain standing with the royal banner under a bat and an oval shield with the arms of Valencia, to its right the representation of the Turia with its name on a pole, around the legend: VOTA BONOS DVCIT AD EXITVS, in exergue: VALENTINORVM / FIDES. Extremely Fine. Nice and irregular patina. Limited.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Valladolid de Michoacan, Mexico. (Ae. 42.88g / 45mm). 1791. Engraver: GA Gil. (Vives 172; RAH 435 metal variation). Anv: Bust of Carlos IV with coat, jabot shirt, band, cloak and necklaces of the fleece and Holy Spirit, around the legend: CARLOS IIII KING OF SPAIN AND OF THE YNDIAS. Rev: Oval Escudo conroned with three busts on the shelf and exterior ornament formed by cardboard and two palms, around the legend: PROCLAMED IN THE CITY OF VALLADOLID DE MICHOACAN / BY SU ALFEREZ RD JOSE, in exergue: 1791. Good Very Fine. Slight iridescent tone. Limited.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1801). Droz minting method. (Silver bronze. 26.03g / 40mm). 1801. Engraver: M. González de Sepúlveda. (Vives 191). Anv: Laureate bust of Carlos IV and bust of the queen with diadem, around legend: ANION AUGUSTA. Rev: Caption: AVOIDING / FRAUD / DILATION AND EXPENSES / IDENTIFY / SIGNS, around caption: JP GROZ INVENTOR OF THE METHOD OF MULTIPLYING THE DIES. In the song legend: ACUÑA SURFACE AND SONG TO A SINGLE HIT. Good Very Fine.
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CARLOS IV (1788-1808). Proclamation in Madrid (Ar. 1,59g / 15mm). 1789. Madrid. (Ha-65). Good Very Fine. Nice tone.
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FERNANDO VII (1808-1833). Restoration of the Constitution of 1812. (Silvered bronze. 71.88 / 50mm). March 7, 1820. Caque and Barre Engravers. (Vives 337 metal variants). Anv: Laureate head of Ferdinand VII on the left, around the legend: FERNANDO VII FOR THE G OF GOD AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE MON KING OF SPAIN AND YND. Rev: Minerva standing to the left carrying spear and shield, uncovering tablets with inscription: CONSTITUCION POLITICA / DE LA MONARQUIA ESPAÑOLA, around the legend: RESTABLISHED BY THE WISDOM OF THE KING AND THE CONSTANCE OF THE NATION, below: MARCH 7, 1820. Good Very Fine.

The popular Constitution of 1812 was proclaimed up to three times. In addition to the one of 12, it was also in 1820 and in a short period in 1836. In this one that concerns us marks the starting gun of the well-known Liberal Triennium and was sworn in by the king, pressured by the social situation of the country, the March 9, 1820. The Constitution established, among other important developments, that sovereignty rested with the nation, not with the king, the separation of powers or indirect universal male suffrage. Only three years later it ceased to have effect, beginning the so-called Ominous Decade.
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FERNANDO VII (1808-1833). Wedding of Fernando VII and María Josefa Amalia. (Gilt bronze. 33.94g / 36mm). 1819. Irún. Yrún's manifesto of loyalty to María Josefa Amalia, new Queen. ( Vives 331 metal variation). Anv: Busts of Fernando VII and María Josefa Amalia on the right, around the legend: FERNANDO VII AND Mª JOSEFA AMALIA. Rev: Legend: THE LOYALTY / OF THE SPANIARDS / TO THEIR SOVEREIGHTS / IT MANIFESTS IN YRUN / VNA COMMISSION OF THE KINGS / TO Mª JOSEFA AMALIA / HIS NEW KINGDOM / ON OCTOBER 3 / DE 1819. Almost Extremely Fine.
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DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Token. (Ae. 8.05g / 27mm). 1812. Campaigns of Spain. (Breton 987). Almost Very Fine.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Return of María Cristina de Borbón. (Ae. 59.07g / 52mm). 1844. Minted by the Barcelona Provincial Council. Engraver: Jubany. (Cru. Medals 549). Extremely Fine. Limited.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Return of María Cristina de Borbón. (White metal. 28.07g / 51mm). 1844. Minted by the Barcelona Provincial Council. Single plate. Test?. Good Very Fine. Very rare. Silver and bronze specimens are known engraved by Jubany and that include on the reverse the scene of Victoria in the quadriga on the left.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Real Wedding. (Ae. 23.94g / 37mm). 1846. Barcelona. (Vives 385). Good Extremely Fine.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Prim Marqués de los Castillejos. War of Africa. (Silver calamine. 68.80g / 54mm). 1860. Barcelona. Engraver: Pomar. (Vives 809). Good Very Fine.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Prim Marqués de los Castillejos. War of Africa. (Silver calamine. 69.03g / 54mm). 1860. Barcelona. Engraver: Pomar. (Vives 809). Good Very Fine.

After the loss of the overseas colonies, Spain had become a second-rate power. Escarceos in the Pacific, Mexico or East Africa sought to maintain a certain level of international prestige and incidentally impose respect on a neighboring France that had just occupied Algerian soil. Rafael Echagüe, Antonio Ros de Olano and Juan Prim were the visible heads of the overwhelming victory in the battle of Wad-Ras against some Moroccan troops who capitulated giving way to a peace, of the same name as the battle, which did not mean for Spain no territorial expansion or strategic advantage, since neither France nor England allowed it.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Agriculture Exhibition. (Ae. 39.61g / 43mm). 1857. Madrid. Engraver: Louis Charles Bouvet. In the recorded Cuivre song (Spanish Medals Collection, Vol II, Nº 684). Extremely Fine.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Agriculture Exhibition. To the merit. (Ae.-over-gilt. 106.62g / 59mm). 1857. Madrid. Engraver: CB (Louis Charles Bouvet). (Vives 401). Very Fine. Limited.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Inauguration of the Canal de Isabel II. (Ae. 7.55g / 23mm). June 24, 1858. Madrid. (Vives 407). Good Very Fine.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Proclamation in Sevilla coming of age. (Ar. 6.01g / 23mm). Sevilla. 1843. Module of 4 Reales. (Ha-17). Very Fine.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Visit to the city of Sevilla. (Ae. 6.13g / 23mm). September 17, 1862. (VQ 14359). Good Very Fine. Loose minting on reverse.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Africa campaign. (White metal. 24.44g / 39mm). 1860. Circular medal on a Greek cross. (Pérez Guerra 725). Good Very Fine. Crown and ring are missing. Good Very Fine. Limited.
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ISABEL II (1833-1868). Landing in Ceuta of the First Corps of the Spanish Army. War of Africa. (White metal. 52.85g / 50mm). 1860. Engraver: Massonet. (VQ 14345). Almost Extremely Fine. Strange.
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AMADEO I (1871-1873). Proclamation. (Ae. 56.34g / 42mm). November 16, 1870. Madrid.Engraver: J. García Morado. (Vives 832; RAH 670). Extremely Fine. Marquitas. Limited.
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AMADEO I (1871-1873). To the Mediterranean Squad. Trip to Spain of the new king. (Ae. 15.88g / 29mm). December 26, 1870. Engraver: G. Sellán. (VQ 14379). Almost Extremely Fine. Crown removed, mark in the area. Strange.

The new king would arrive by sea at the port of Cartagena on December 30, 1870. A few days later on January 2, 1871, Amadeo presented in the Atocha basilica in Madrid, his respect and condolence at the tomb of Prim, his principal defender and that he had been assassinated a few days before. Presented by his supporters as a promoter of progressivism and modernity, the first “democratic king” in our history never had enough political support or from important layers of society to consolidate his reign.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). Visit to the Casa de la Moneda. (Ar. 17.71g / 33mm). June 28, 1875. Madrid. Engraver: G. Sellan. (Vives 462 metal variation). Good Very Fine.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). Arrival of the new king in Spain. (Ae. 15.36g / 28mm). 1875. Engraver: Esteban Lozano. (RAH 672). Extremely Fine. Slight marks. and tap on the graphite of the obverse.

On January 7, 1875, the Navas de Tolosa frigate, a first-class propeller frigate of the Spanish Navy and among whose main assets was its participation in the Cantonal Revolution of Cádiz in 1873, left the port of Marseille bound for Valencia. On board the new king, the same dynasty of yesteryear, to try to end one of the most turbulent times in our contemporary history. Spain leaves behind the flight of a queen, the outbreak of the "glorious", a first republican attempt and even a dynastic change. The Restoration began.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). Centenary of the Academy of Mining (Ae. 242.00g / 70mm). 1877. (Vives 474). Extremely Fine. Very slight taps. Light double minting on the obverse.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). Mr. Fernando Cos-Gayón. Undersecretary of the Ministry of Finance. (Ae. 91.15g / 55mm). 1878. Madrid. Engraver: L. Plañiol. (Vives 483). Good Very Fine.
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ALFONSO XII. (1874-1885). Universal Exhibition of Paris. (Ae. 62.39g / 50mm). 1878. Extremely Fine. Scratch.

This third Universal Fair, whose theme revolves around Agriculture, Arts and Industry, was held between May and November 1878 on both banks of the Seine. Spain focused its participation in exhibitions of both archeology and anthropology and not by chance; the last years of the XIX and the first of the XX were the years of historicism, a current that in its sculptural and architectural aspect sought to recover styles from the past, imitating them but endowing them with some new contemporary characteristic. The classical Greek temple, represented in this medal, together with the naked torso, the female figures, or the columns of Hercules are a faithful reflection of the moment in which we find ourselves.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). Calderón de la Barca in its Second Centennial (Ae. 116.17g / 60mm). 1881. Engraver: J. Esteban Lozano. (RAH 704). Extremely Fine. Slight marks and scratch.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). II Centenary of D. Pedro Calderón de la Barca. (Ae. 120.10 / 60mm). May 25, 1881. Engraver: J. Esteban Lozano. (Vives 1916). Good Very Fine.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). II Centenary of D. Pedro Calderón de la Barca. (Ae. 118.19 / 60mm). May 25, 1881. Engraver: J. Esteban Lozano. (Vives 1916). Good Very Fine.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). 1st Pedagogical Exhibition. The Promotion of Art (Ae. 34.65g / 42mm). 1882. Madrid. Engraver: Gregorio Sellán. (Vives does not quote). Almost Extremely Fine. Tapping.
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ALFONSO XII (1874-1885). Balaguer Library. Villanueva and Geltrú. (Ae. 58.40g / 50mm). 1884. Extremely Fine. Tap on the edge.

Work of the architect Jeroni Granell, the library was built between 1882 and 1884 with the intention of being a place of multidisciplinary learning, open and without exclusion to any type of citizen. It is therefore the clearest and probably the first example of a Catalan public library. Among its first collections, it is worth highlighting a good number of contributions made by the founder himself, Víctor Balaguer, a distinguished Spanish writer, journalist and politician and one of the leading figures of the so-called “Renaixenca”.
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ALFONSO XIII (1885-1931). Universal Exhibition of Barcelona. (Ae. 55.96g / 50mm). 1888. Engravers: J. Solà, E. arnau and Castells. (Cru.Medalles 760 var). Extremely Fine. Without a crown.
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ALFONSO XIII (1885-1931). International Fine Arts Exhibition. (Ar. 64.38g / 50mm). 1892. Madrid. Engraver: Bartolomé Maura. (Catalog of Spanish Medals, Madrid: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2005, p. 313). Good Very Fine. Limited.
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ALFONSO XIII (1885-1931). Visit of the Regent Queen María Cristina to the National Currency and Stamp Factory. (Gilded bronze. 70.43g / 50mm). February 12, 1894. Madrid. Engraver: Bartolmé Maura. Legend in seven lines. (RAH-735 metal variant). Good Extremely Fine.
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