1143 | Spanish Monarchy

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ELIZABETH II (1833-1868). 1 Peseta. (Ar. 5.71g/25mm).1837. Barcelona. (Cal-2019-272). Extremely Fine. Scarce like that.

Although the Barcelona Mint closed its doors in 1823, it kept inside all the machinery and utensils necessary for minting coins. This fact did not go unnoticed by the Barcelona Provincial Council, which decided to reopen it to attend to "the need and the difficulty in which they find themselves to be able to help the army, to attend to the expenses of the civil war and their urgency to pay the troops". In other words, we are facing a currency of necessity, of a provincial nature and whose circulation would be limited to the Catalan Principality. It was known as the peseta of the peseteros since it was used to pay the troops of the Elizabethan side in the framework of the First Carlist War, between 1833 and 1840.