Spanje - Sevilla Spain, Seville, 10 reales Isabella II, 1842 VF

Spain, Seville, 10 reales Isabella II, 1842, silver, 29 mm.

Obverse: head of Isabella II right. Legend ISABEL 2A. POR LA GRACIA DE DIOS Y LA CONST · 1842. (translated: Isabella II, by the grace of God and the Constitution).

Reverse: crowned arms of Spain with the collar of the Golden Fleece. Legend REYNA DE LAS ESPAÑAS 10 RS S RD (translated: Queen of the Spains, 10 reales). S stands for the Seville mint, RD for the assayer.

References: KM# 585.2, Calicó 235, Aureo 543.

About the period:
In 1842 Isabella II was Queen of Spain. She was still a child, and General Baldomero Espartero ruled for her as regent.
On 13 November 1842 Barcelona rose in revolt. Workers feared a trade treaty with Britain that would let cheap English cloth into the country.
On 3 December Espartero had the city shelled from the castle of Montjuïc, with 1,014 shells.
A day later the city surrendered. In Madrid, Espartero was then received without much enthusiasm.

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Coins have been part of my life for almost thirty years. It started with the things I found in the ground as a boy, and it never stopped. First the searching, then the reading and figuring out, and the collecting. Dealing came much later, and even though it is how I make my living now, I still enjoy looking at every piece the way a collector does.

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