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1/4 Real - Ferdinandus V and Elisabet I
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1506-1566 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a yoke — the personal device of Ferdinand II — rendered in relief within a beaded inner circle. A mint mark letter (B for Burgos, as visible on this example) appears below the yoke device. The surrounding legend, partially legible due to the hammered fabric of the flan, reads FERNANDVS ET ELISABET in Latin characters. The overall style is characteristic of late medieval Castilian coinage, with a roughly circular, irregularly shaped flan typical of hand-struck production. |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a bundle of arrows — the personal device of Queen Isabella I — depicted upright within a beaded inner circle, with decorative scrollwork flanking the base of the bundle. The surrounding circumferential legend in Latin reads REX ET REGINA CAST LEGION, identifying the monarchs as King and Queen of Castile and Leon. The design exhibits the characteristic irregular strike and flat areas inherent to the hammered coinage of this period. |
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This fractional silver issue spans a curious sixty-year window that begins with Ferdinand and Isabella still nominally co-rulers and extends well into the reign of Philip II — the "Fernando e Isabel" titulature persisted on coinage long after Isabella's death in 1504 and Ferdinand's in 1516, a conservative minting habit that kept defunct royal authority on circulating silver for decades. The quarter real served colonial trade in the early Americas as much as Iberian markets, and examples frequently turn up with the wear patterns consistent with Caribbean or Mesoamerican circulation.