Catalogus
Volledige afbeeldingen bekijken — gratis registratie
Doorgaan met Google — het is gratis
of registreer met e-mail
Waarom registreren? Alleen om bots buiten ons catalogus te houden. Uw e-mail blijft privé — we delen het nooit en sturen u niets zonder uw toestemming. Dat garanderen wij u!
4 maravedis - Felipe IV countermark
| Uitgever | Spain |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1654-1655 |
| Type | Log in om details te zien |
| Waarde | Log in om details te zien |
| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Gewicht | Log in om details te zien |
| Diameter | Log in om details te zien |
| Dikte | 0.6 mm |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Techniek | Log in om details te zien |
| Oriëntatie | Log in om details te zien |
| Graveur(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| In omloop tot | Log in om details te zien |
| Referentie(s) | Log in om details te zien |
| Beschrijving voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
|---|---|
| Schrift voorzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift voorzijde | IIII |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Countermark displaying the date of revalidation, visible as '1654' or '1655', struck within a punch on the reverse field of the host coin. A cross or decorative device appears alongside the date numeral, consistent with the resello countermarks applied by royal decree during the reign of Felipe IV. The host coin's original reverse design is largely obscured beneath the countermark and general wear, with only fragmentary traces of the underlying legend surviving. |
| Schrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Opschrift keerzijde | Log in om details te zien |
| Rand | Log in om details te zien |
| Muntplaats | Log in om details te zien |
| Oplage | Log in om details te zien |
| Aanvullende informatie |
This piece is not a new coin but a recycled one — part of Spain's desperate mid-17th century effort to manage a copper currency crisis of its own making. Decades of aggressive vellón inflation, driven by royal mints flooding Castile with low-denomination copper to finance war debt, had so thoroughly devalued circulating maravedis that the Crown attempted a forced revaluation by countermarking older, heavier pieces at a reduced nominal value. The 1654–1655 countermark program was itself a reversal of earlier reseallings that had inflated values upward.
The underlying host coin could originate from any number of earlier reigns and mints, making attribution of individual pieces genuinely complex.