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<p>[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4954199, member: 10461"]Ditto.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love how those late-medieval/Renaissance-era Spanish coppers so often come with nice earthen patina. Here is a nice (but very inexpensive) little piece I have, from some very famous monarchs. Not remotely as nice as the one in the OP, however.</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Spain: copper 2-maravedis of Ferdinand V of Aragon & Isabella I of Castile, ca. 1474-1504</b></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spain-copper-2-maravedis-of-ferdinand-v-of-aragon-isabella-i-of-castile-ca-1474-1504.364886/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spain-copper-2-maravedis-of-ferdinand-v-of-aragon-isabella-i-of-castile-ca-1474-1504.364886/"><img src="https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/yHAkueYXSWWSpf6yOScB_Ferdinand_Isabella-gradient.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Obverse:</b> castle (symbol of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_(historical_region)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_(historical_region)" rel="nofollow">Castile</a>).</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b>Reverse:</b> lion (symbol of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_(historical_region)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_(historical_region)" rel="nofollow">León</a>.)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Struck ca. 1474-1504 AD. Natural earthen patina. Struck on a squarish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet" rel="nofollow">flan</a>. Ex-David Connors, August 2019.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Copper coin of the famous Ferdinand & Isabella (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon" rel="nofollow">Ferdinand of Aragon</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile" rel="nofollow">Isabella of Castile</a>), the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs" rel="nofollow">Catholic monarchs</a> of Spain, who financed the voyages of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus" rel="nofollow">Christopher Columbus</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World" rel="nofollow">New World</a>.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Painting: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG" rel="nofollow"><i>Columbus Before The Queen</i></a>, 1843, by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868)</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG/800px-Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4954199, member: 10461"]Ditto. I love how those late-medieval/Renaissance-era Spanish coppers so often come with nice earthen patina. Here is a nice (but very inexpensive) little piece I have, from some very famous monarchs. Not remotely as nice as the one in the OP, however. [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=5][B]Spain: copper 2-maravedis of Ferdinand V of Aragon & Isabella I of Castile, ca. 1474-1504[/B] [URL='https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spain-copper-2-maravedis-of-ferdinand-v-of-aragon-isabella-i-of-castile-ca-1474-1504.364886/'][IMG]https://collectivecoin.imgix.net/yHAkueYXSWWSpf6yOScB_Ferdinand_Isabella-gradient.png[/IMG][/URL] [B]Obverse:[/B] castle (symbol of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castile_(historical_region)']Castile[/URL]). [B]Reverse:[/B] lion (symbol of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%C3%B3n_(historical_region)']León[/URL].) Struck ca. 1474-1504 AD. Natural earthen patina. Struck on a squarish [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planchet']flan[/URL]. Ex-David Connors, August 2019. Copper coin of the famous Ferdinand & Isabella ([URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_II_of_Aragon']Ferdinand of Aragon[/URL] and [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_I_of_Castile']Isabella of Castile[/URL]), the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Monarchs']Catholic monarchs[/URL] of Spain, who financed the voyages of [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus']Christopher Columbus[/URL] to the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World']New World[/URL]. Painting: [URL='https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG'][I]Columbus Before The Queen[/I][/URL], 1843, by Emmanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1816-1868) [IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG/800px-Emanuel_Gottlieb_Leutze_-_Columbus_Before_the_Queen.JPG[/IMG][/SIZE][/FONT][/QUOTE]
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