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1 Real 'Bamba' - Philip V Countermarked on 1 Real of Joanna and Charles I
| Issuer | Canary Islands |
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| Year | 1734 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by the quartered royal coat of arms of Castile and León, characteristic of the hammered coinage of Joanna and Charles I, struck at the Seville mint. The shield displays the castles of Castile in the first and fourth quarters and the lions of León in the second and third quarters, rendered in the crude, hand-struck style typical of early sixteenth-century Spanish macuquina coinage. A small applied countermark depicting the so-called 'Bamba Lion' — the heraldic lion emblem of Tenerife — appears struck upon the field, authenticating the coin for local circulation in the Canary Islands under Philip V's 1734 decree. The peripheral legend, partially visible due to the irregular flan, reads IOANA ET CAROLUS. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | IOANA ET CAROLUS (Translation: Joanna and Charles) |
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