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1 Real - Philip III Hammered; OMNIVM
| Issuer | Spanish Monarchy |
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| Year | 1598-1602 |
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| Composition | Silver (.931) |
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| Reverse description | Central design features the quartered arms of Castile and León divided by a plain cross with seriffed terminals, the quarters displaying alternately a castle (for Castile) and a rampant lion (for León), all within a tressure. The surrounding legend reads HISPAN · REGNORVM · REX · followed by the date, identifying Philip III as King of the Spains and of the Kingdoms. The legend is partially obscured by the uneven clip of the flan, typical of hand-struck hammered cob coinage. The cross dividing the shield extends to the coin's edge, a standard feature of Spanish reales of this era. Overall relief is moderately well-struck, with some weakness at the periphery consistent with the hammered production technique. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Philip III inherited the Spanish throne in 1598 and almost immediately confronted a currency crisis his father had left festering. The peninsular reales of this period were struck under the old hammered process at mints scrambling to keep pace with American silver inflows, producing coins of notoriously irregular shape and strike registration. The OMNIVM type belongs to the opening years of his reign, before the monetary reforms that would follow.
Cal#479 is not a common attribution — Calicó's cataloguing of this transitional issue separates it from the later, more standardized Philip III coinage by the specific legend arrangement.