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Blanca - Felipe II Burgos
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1573-1589 |
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| Value | 1 Blank (1 Blanca) (1⁄68) |
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| Obverse description | Royal crowned monogram of Philip II within a beaded circle. Flanking the monogram at left and right are small crosses, which appear on certain varieties with one or two dots; some varieties omit the crosses entirely. The legend PHILVS is struck in Latin characters around the periphery. |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILVS |
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Felipe II's billon coinage of this period was produced under the monetary reforms that followed decades of pressure on Castile's small-change supply — silver-rich Spain paradoxically chronically short of the low-denomination coin its domestic economy actually ran on. The Burgos mint, one of the longest-operating in Castile, struck these blancas under royal contract with local assayers held personally liable for debasement violations.
Cal#791 places this among a closely grouped series where die workmanship varied considerably between assayer tenures at Burgos.