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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 8380124, member: 89314&quot;]Spain ARAGON&nbsp; Juana &amp; Carlos 1/2 Real n.d.&nbsp; Zaragoza mint</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.:cross potent IOANA: ET KAROLV.S: RXS: AR (agonvm):&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Crowned I &amp; crowned K dividing CA (=Zaragoza), in circle</p><p>Rev.:TROPEA:REGNVM:ARAGONV (victories of the kingdom of Aragon)&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Large Maltese cross in legend&nbsp; over&nbsp; Aragon arms (vertical bars) dividing L S (=Luis Sanchez,mm 1505-16,1520,1528) in circle</p><p><br /></p><p>20 mm&nbsp; 1.34 g&nbsp; Cal. 190. Cayon 3003. CCT.178. Cru.CG.4236d.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1487267[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1487268[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>ARAGON&nbsp; Juana &amp; Carlos Real 1520&nbsp; Zaragoza mint</p><p><br /></p><p>Obv.:IOANA.ET.KAROLVS:RX ARAGONVM.&nbsp;&nbsp; Maltese cross&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Crowned Aragon arms (vertical bars) dividing CA (=Zaragoza), in circle</p><p>Rev.:TROPEA:REGNVM:ARAGONVM (victories of the kingdom of Aragon, the 4 heads in the arms being those of the Moorish kings killed in Pedro I&#039;s victory at the battle of Alcoraz in 1096):152 illegible&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Large Maltese cross over irregular shield with qtrd. arms (4 Moor&#039;s heads l.) dividing L S (=Luis Sanchez,mm 1505-16,1520,1528) in circle</p><p><br /></p><p>25.5 mm&nbsp; 3.30 g&nbsp; CC.3064. CCT.145v (type 80). Hess II,p.41,7v.</p><p><br /></p><p>The politically incorrect arms, sometimes described as the personal arms of the kings of Aragon, became the official arms of the kingdom of Sardinia, controlled by Aragon for centuries. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1487269[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1487270[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If anyone is not familiar with Queen Juana, it is a sad story. On the death of her mother Isabel in 1504, Juana la Loca (Joanna the Mad) became Queen of Castile, with her husband Philip the Handsome of Flanders who however died in 1506.&nbsp; Juana was forced by her father, Ferdinand of Aragon,to give up her royal power over Castile in Aug. 1507. Ferdinand was named administrator of the kingdom by the Cortes of Castile in 1510,&nbsp; He had had Joanna confined in the Royal Palace in Tordesillas, near Valladolid in Castile, in February 1509. Nevertheless, he left all his kingdoms, including Aragon, to Juana &amp; her son Carlos jointly when he died in 1516. However, Carlos I kept her imprisoned in Tordesillas.&nbsp; She would die there in 1555.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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