Just find this coin interesting as it was minted under Fernando VII of Spain. Under his rule, Spain lost nearly all of its American possessions, and the country entered into a large-scale civil war upon his death. The Philippines was a Spanish colony for 333 years, from 1565 to 1898, a period that began with Miguel López de Legazpi's conquest and the establishment of the capital in Manila. The islands were named after Philip II of Spain, who reigned during the 16th-century colonization. The colonial period ended with Spain's defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the subsequent Treaty of Paris, signed on December 10, 1898, which transferred the islands to the United States. AE 22 3.960 g, 12h Manila 1828; mint master: "F" 1 Quarto Philippines KM 7; Calicó 91; Basso 11g; Ob.: FERD•VII•D•G•HISP•ET•IND•R Crowned Spanish coat of arms flanked by elongated six-pointed stars. Rev.: VTRAq•VIRT•PROTEGO (Protector of virtue in both worlds). Crowned long, thin lion guarding two small globes, wave below lion crisscrosses, within beaded circle. F•1828•M The Coat of Arms on the obverse is a crowned escutcheon of 4 arms (1700–1868 & 1874–1898, quartered (1. Castile, 2 Léon, 3. Aragón, 4. Navarra 5. Grenada inescutcheon Bourbon dynasty between.
