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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3943670, member: 99456&quot;]Although it pushes any reasonable boundary of &quot;ancient&quot; this coin sits happily with it&#039;s much older neighbors - it is round, struck, has legends in Latin, his father-in-law was &quot;Holy Roman Emperor&quot;, and it was minted in a city that was established in the 2nd century BC by the Romans as a settlement, &quot;Matrice&quot;, on the banks of the Manzanares river. Perhaps that is enough to justify calling this a recent ancient coin?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1039441[/ATTACH]</p><p>Spain, Castille y Leon, Philip IV, 1621-1665, BI 8 maravedis, Madrid mint, AD 1661</p><p><b>Obv:</b> PHILIPPVS * IIII * D* G*, bare-headed, bust right </p><p><b>Rev: </b>HISPANIARVM REX 1661, crowned arms of Castille and Leon</p><p><br /></p><p>The sickly heir Charles II of Spain was born in 1661 to Philip and his second wife, also niece, Mariana, the year this coin was minted.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Next:</b> a coin from the Iberian peninsula[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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