300 Euros - Philip VI 2017

Weight

1007 g

Diameter

100 mm

Thickness

NA

Material

Silver (.999)

Shape

Round

Edge Type

Plain with numbers (indicating serial number of the coin, with a maximum mintage of 1000 units)

Technique

Milled

Front design

In the center, inside a pinwheel pattern, bust of the king Felipe VI facing left, wearing the distinctive of Captain General; circling the central motif, clockwise and inside another pinwheel pattern, appears the obverse and reverse of a coin of eight reales; a fleur de lis; obverse and reverse of a Dollar of 1794, the first issued in the United States; another fleur de lis and front and back of a Joachimsthaler.

Back design

On center, Columns of Hercules. Surrounding the central motifs, in a clockwise direction, appear the obverse and reverse images of a Reichsthaler, a Leeuwendaalder, a Speciedaler and, in the lower part of the coin, a Maria-Theresien-Taler; surrounding these motifs, a gillile of pine nuts interrupted in its upper and lower part.

Year of Minting

2017

King

Felipe VI (2014-date)

Mint location

(M) Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date)

Mint mark

NA

Orientation

Medal alignment ↑↑

Inscriptions

Obverse: HISTORIA DEL DÓLAR FELIPE VI REY DE ESPAÑA Reverse: ESPAÑA 2017 300 EURO PLUS ULTRA M

Context

The Royal Mint (FNMT) has wanted to dedicate its first mintage of a one-kilogram silver coin to the history of the American dollar, whose origins go back to Central European thaler and Spanish colonial America, with the real of eight. The coin reproduces different numismatic pieces that are fundamental to understand this history of the dollar, its origins and ancestors

Rarity

Ultra rare

Coin type

Non-circulating

In circulation

Yes

Demonetized

No

Marketplace listings

0