Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 1202. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SPAIN. Philip II. 1556-1598. AR 8 Reales (26.29 gm). Segovia mint. Dated 1588. +PHILLIPVS D G HISPANIARVM, crowned coat-of arms; six-arched aquaduct mintmark to left, value to right, trefoil stops / ET INDIARVM REX, coat-of-arms of Castille and Leon, star stops. C&C 3782; Calicó 145. Good VF. ($750)

Struck the year the Spanish Armada sailed against England.