Rare Spanish doubloon, gold coin currency massive Catholic Monarchs Coat, 6.9 gr fifteenth
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Exceptional and rare * Spanish doubloon, solid gold chiselled, representing on one side the portrait of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella Esapgne and across the arms of the Catholic Monarchs, second half of the fifteenth century era.
This duplicate is in good condition, it has undergone some wear time.
A report: scratches and wear on the side of arms, light alissures, well look at the pictures.
* The word "duplicate" comes from the Spanish "Doblón", which means "double". So it was a double shield (escudo) or a gold coin of 32 reales, weighing 6.77 grams. The Duplicates were struck in Spain, Mexico, Peru and New Granada. Duplicate the word was used for the first time to describe gold coin, both because of its value (two ducats) and because duplicates were the first double portrait of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella (the Double Excellent = both excellences). In Spain, duplicates were circulated in the ordinary way until the mid 19th century. Isabella II of Spain replaced a coinage based on the ECU (Escudo) with Reales based on the decimal system in 1859. It was at this time that the duplicates of 6.77 grams were replaced by a new heavier duplicate a value of 100 Reales and a weight of 8.3771 grams.