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2 Maravedis - Felipe II Valladolid, low grade billon
| Emittent | Casa de la Moneda de Valladolid |
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| Jahr | 1580-1591 |
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| Währung | Real (1497-1833) |
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| Aversbeschreibung | Central device depicts the castle of Castile, rendered as a multi-turreted fortification with three towers above a crenellated base, set within a dotted inner border. The mint mark and assayer's letter appear to the right of the castle in the field. The legend, partially visible due to the irregular flan and hammered production, reads DON PHILIPPE II in Latin characters, identifying the issuing monarch. The overall style is characteristic of late 16th-century Spanish hammered coinage, with the design somewhat weakly struck and unevenly distributed across the planchet. |
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| Reversschrift | Latin |
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Felipe II's Castilian mints were under chronic pressure during the 1580s — the costs of maintaining the Armada, garrisoning the Netherlands, and absorbing Portugal after 1580 strained the treasury relentlessly. Billon coinage of this period was repeatedly debased, and the Valladolid mint in particular cycled through several assayers across this decade, which accounts for the Cal#893/894 split and the variation collectors encounter in flan quality and strike depth.
Valladolid held a privileged position among Castilian mints but was not immune to the chronic undercutting of silver content that made low-denomination billon issues politically contentious enough to prompt royal ordinances in 1584 attempting to standardize production.