335, Lot: 901. Estimate $75. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SPAIN, Reino de España. Archiduque Carlos de Austria (Carlos III). 1700-1713. AR Croat – Dieciocheno (21mm, 2.33 g, 12h). Baercelona mint. 1705. Bareheaded, draped, and armored but left; horizontal P • on bust / Long cross pattée; three pellets in first and fourth quarters, annulet in second and third. ME 7972. Good VF, toned.
Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.57.17874).
Struck to pay the English troops who supported the royal aspirations of Carlos during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714).