Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
50 Reales 'Cincuentín' - Felipe IV
| Issuer | Kingdom of Navarre |
|---|---|
| Year | 1652 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | KM#39 |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Central field displays the crowned arms of Navarre rendered as a quatrefoil composition: four lobed segments each bearing an oval chain-link device, separated by a small cross pattée at the centre, all enclosed within a raised cusped border. A royal crown surmounts the escutcheon. The whole device is set within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend, reading + NAVARRE + REX + ANNO + 1652, is inscribed in Latin capital letters with cross and star stops, running within a plain outer border with a beaded rim. |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
The cincuentín was never intended for everyday commerce. These massive cobs — struck in Navarre under royal license rather than at a Castilian mint — functioned primarily as prestige pieces and large-value settlement instruments, circulating among merchants and treasury officials rather than passing through ordinary hands. Pamplona's output was limited, and survival rates are low relative to the Segovian machine-struck macuquinas of the same period.
Felipe IV's chronic war financing, stretched across the Thirty Years' War and the simultaneous Catalan revolt, kept the Spanish treasury under relentless pressure throughout the 1650s. The 1652 date falls just as Barcelona surrendered, ending twelve years of Catalan secession.