Fernando VII never set foot in free Spanish territory during the years Cádiz was striking gold in his name. He was held at Valençay under Napoleonic detention while the Cortes governed from behind the city's besieged walls — the most extraordinary constitutional experiment in Spanish history running simultaneously with a war of survival. The Cádiz mint became the principal supplier of legitimate Fernandine coinage precisely because it was one of the few royal mints never occupied by French forces.
Cal#176 is among the scarcer dates in the Cádiz Fernando VII gold series, with production constrained by the ongoing siege and irregular bullion supply from the Americas.
Fernando VII never set foot in free Spanish territory during the years Cádiz was striking gold in his name. He was held at Valençay under Napoleonic detention while the Cortes governed from behind the city's besieged walls — the most extraordinary constitutional experiment in Spanish history running simultaneously with a war of survival. The Cádiz mint became the principal supplier of legitimate Fernandine coinage precisely because it was one of the few royal mints never occupied by French forces.
Cal#176 is among the scarcer dates in the Cádiz Fernando VII gold series, with production constrained by the ongoing siege and irregular bullion supply from the Americas.