Record ID: WMID-D09A77
Object type: COIN
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete milled probable contemporary copy of a silver Spanish 'dollar' or eight reales of Charles IV of Spain (AD 1788 to AD 1808). Diameter: 39.3 mm Thickness: 3.7 mm Weight: 31.0 g Due to a shortage in coinage during the late 1790s, a number of coins from South America and Spain were counterstruck with the portrait of George III from 1797 until about 1820. However this example does not bear the countermark and is made from copper alloy as opposed to silver, suggesting that it may be a contemopary copy. According to Walden, Timothy (2002), The Spanish Treasure Fleets, …
Created on: Monday 20th January 2014
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2014
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