8 Maravedis - Felipe IV Madrid

The 1643 silver resello maravedis belong to one of the more chaotic episodes in Castilian monetary history. Facing chronic fiscal collapse from decades of war — the Thirty Years' War, the Portuguese Revolt of 1640, the Catalonian revolt of the same year — the Crown ordered copper vellón coinage to be counterstamped and revalued, then later resmelted and restruck in debased silver as an emergency measure. The Madrid mint's 1643 silver resellos were part of this desperate cycle, an attempt to restore credibility to a currency the market had largely stopped trusting.

Cal#1407 specimens frequently show doubled or misaligned counterstamp punches from the restriking process.