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Royals - 4 reales

Dates known

Year King Assayer
  Philip III F
1631    Philip IV    P
1632
1639
1643
1647/6
1654
1658
1676   Charles II    L
1678
1682
1689
1691/0
1695
1716   J
1719 Philip V
     
1720
1721
1722
1723
1724 D
1725  
1726 Philip V
 
1730 R

 

Philip III

R37.1R37.1 reverse

KM-R37.1 4r 1615/3 Mo F (Stack’s Bowers NYINC Auction, 15 January 2022, lot 2052)

Philip IV

R41R41 reverse

KM-R41 4r 1643 Mo P (Stack’s Bowers NYINC Auction, 15 January 2022, lot 2053)

1658 4r royal1658 4r royal reverse
1658 Philip IV 4r Mo P (Heritage auction, 6 January 2014, lot 24650)

This coin bears a crude Costa Rican counterstamp.

Charles II

R39R39 reverse

KM-R39 4r 1682 Mo L (Stack’s Bowers NYINC Auction, 15 January 2022, lot 2056)

Philip V

R40 1719R40 1719 reverse

KM-R40 4r 1719 Mo J (Stack’s Bowers NYINC Auction, 15 January 2022, lot 2070)

Royal 8 Reales dies struck in medal alignment on an underweight cob planchet, possibly as an attempted trial.

R40 1725R40 1725 reverse

KM-R40 4r 1725 Mo D (Stack’s Bowers NYINC Auction, 15 January 2022, lot 2071)

R47 1729R47 1729 reverse

KM-R47 4r 1729 Mo R (Stack’s Bowers auction, 26 August 2022, lot 34144)

Louis I

 

R42R42 reverse

KM-R42 4r 1725 Mo D (Stack’s Bowers NYINC Auction, 15 January 2022, lot 2073)

Though faint, there is evidence that this monarch's name and ordinal were punched over the previous ruler; "LVDOVICVS/PHILIPPVS" and "I/V". In some later presentation issues of Philip V, after he became ruler again, are the opposite where it is Philip over Luis.