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Spain 1815 Ferdinand VII 2 Escudos Gold Coin
Spain 1815 Ferdinand VII 2 Escudos Gold Coin
This beautiful 1815 87.5% gold coin hails from Spain. Weighing 6.7 grams and measuring about 23 mm in diameter, it features the big laureate bust of King Ferdinand VII, facing right.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) had a tumultuous reign, interrupted when he was overthrown by Napoleon in 1808. When he returned to the throne in 1813, he found a French-style Constitution in place that established an incredibly liberal (for the time) parliamentary system, electoral system, representation for the colonies, freedom of the press, and a huge array of other liberties. A deeply conservative autocrat, Ferdinand rejected it. This made him immediately and vastly unpopular, and as a result, he struggled against revolt for the entirety of his reign. Paranoid and inherently selfish, he found he could not trust his ministers and was forced to become increasingly vindictive and despotic. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country." In the end, Ferdinand lost all of Spain's American colonies to revolution, and when he died the country descended into civil war.
This beautiful 1815 87.5% gold coin hails from Spain. Weighing 6.7 grams and measuring about 23 mm in diameter, it features the big laureate bust of King Ferdinand VII, facing right.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) had a tumultuous reign, interrupted when he was overthrown by Napoleon in 1808. When he returned to the throne in 1813, he found a French-style Constitution in place that established an incredibly liberal (for the time) parliamentary system, electoral system, representation for the colonies, freedom of the press, and a huge array of other liberties. A deeply conservative autocrat, Ferdinand rejected it. This made him immediately and vastly unpopular, and as a result, he struggled against revolt for the entirety of his reign. Paranoid and inherently selfish, he found he could not trust his ministers and was forced to become increasingly vindictive and despotic. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country." In the end, Ferdinand lost all of Spain's American colonies to revolution, and when he died the country descended into civil war.
Spain 1815 Ferdinand VII 2 Escudos Gold Coin
This beautiful 1815 87.5% gold coin hails from Spain. Weighing 6.7 grams and measuring about 23 mm in diameter, it features the big laureate bust of King Ferdinand VII, facing right.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) had a tumultuous reign, interrupted when he was overthrown by Napoleon in 1808. When he returned to the throne in 1813, he found a French-style Constitution in place that established an incredibly liberal (for the time) parliamentary system, electoral system, representation for the colonies, freedom of the press, and a huge array of other liberties. A deeply conservative autocrat, Ferdinand rejected it. This made him immediately and vastly unpopular, and as a result, he struggled against revolt for the entirety of his reign. Paranoid and inherently selfish, he found he could not trust his ministers and was forced to become increasingly vindictive and despotic. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country." In the end, Ferdinand lost all of Spain's American colonies to revolution, and when he died the country descended into civil war.
This beautiful 1815 87.5% gold coin hails from Spain. Weighing 6.7 grams and measuring about 23 mm in diameter, it features the big laureate bust of King Ferdinand VII, facing right.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) had a tumultuous reign, interrupted when he was overthrown by Napoleon in 1808. When he returned to the throne in 1813, he found a French-style Constitution in place that established an incredibly liberal (for the time) parliamentary system, electoral system, representation for the colonies, freedom of the press, and a huge array of other liberties. A deeply conservative autocrat, Ferdinand rejected it. This made him immediately and vastly unpopular, and as a result, he struggled against revolt for the entirety of his reign. Paranoid and inherently selfish, he found he could not trust his ministers and was forced to become increasingly vindictive and despotic. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country." In the end, Ferdinand lost all of Spain's American colonies to revolution, and when he died the country descended into civil war.
$1,377.65
Spain 1815 Ferdinand VII 2 Escudos Gold Coin—
$1,377.65
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Spain 1815 Ferdinand VII 2 Escudos Gold Coin
This beautiful 1815 87.5% gold coin hails from Spain. Weighing 6.7 grams and measuring about 23 mm in diameter, it features the big laureate bust of King Ferdinand VII, facing right.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) had a tumultuous reign, interrupted when he was overthrown by Napoleon in 1808. When he returned to the throne in 1813, he found a French-style Constitution in place that established an incredibly liberal (for the time) parliamentary system, electoral system, representation for the colonies, freedom of the press, and a huge array of other liberties. A deeply conservative autocrat, Ferdinand rejected it. This made him immediately and vastly unpopular, and as a result, he struggled against revolt for the entirety of his reign. Paranoid and inherently selfish, he found he could not trust his ministers and was forced to become increasingly vindictive and despotic. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country." In the end, Ferdinand lost all of Spain's American colonies to revolution, and when he died the country descended into civil war.
This beautiful 1815 87.5% gold coin hails from Spain. Weighing 6.7 grams and measuring about 23 mm in diameter, it features the big laureate bust of King Ferdinand VII, facing right.
Ferdinand VII (1784-1833) had a tumultuous reign, interrupted when he was overthrown by Napoleon in 1808. When he returned to the throne in 1813, he found a French-style Constitution in place that established an incredibly liberal (for the time) parliamentary system, electoral system, representation for the colonies, freedom of the press, and a huge array of other liberties. A deeply conservative autocrat, Ferdinand rejected it. This made him immediately and vastly unpopular, and as a result, he struggled against revolt for the entirety of his reign. Paranoid and inherently selfish, he found he could not trust his ministers and was forced to become increasingly vindictive and despotic. "The king," wrote Friedrich von Gentz in 1814, "has so debased himself that he has become no more than the leading police agent and prison warden of his country." In the end, Ferdinand lost all of Spain's American colonies to revolution, and when he died the country descended into civil war.
