CNG 85, Lot: 1424. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SPAIN, Guerra de la independencia española. Girona. AR Duro (39mm, 26.98 g, 12h). Dated 1808. FER/VII in two lines with scrollwork above, all within arched incuse, stamped into round flan; border composed of oblique linear reeding. Trace of inked inscription: Ferdinand VII in two lines / GNA/1808/UN DURO in three lineswith scrollwork above, all within arched incuse, stamped into round flan; border composed of oblique linear reeding. ME 14914; Calicó 428. Good VF.

Struck by anti-French Spanish insurgents during the Peninsular War (1808-1814).