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<p>[QUOTE="serafino, post: 6478791, member: 74574"]So 1773 was the first year that Spain put a portrait on a coin ? seems strange since in Spanish occupied Southern Italy and Sicily they had portraits on coins going back to at least the 1600's. I have a number of Sicilian/Naples silver coins with King Charles III's portrait and his wife and their son on them from 1735 up till he left Italy and became King of the Spanish empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Sicilian/Naples King Charles III silver coins I think are better looking than the later Charles III Spanish 8 Reales coins. Much more portrait design diversity with the Italian coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="serafino, post: 6478791, member: 74574"]So 1773 was the first year that Spain put a portrait on a coin ? seems strange since in Spanish occupied Southern Italy and Sicily they had portraits on coins going back to at least the 1600's. I have a number of Sicilian/Naples silver coins with King Charles III's portrait and his wife and their son on them from 1735 up till he left Italy and became King of the Spanish empire. The Sicilian/Naples King Charles III silver coins I think are better looking than the later Charles III Spanish 8 Reales coins. Much more portrait design diversity with the Italian coins.[/QUOTE]
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