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1830, Kingdom of Spain, Ferdinand VII. Beautiful 2 Escudos Gold Coin. 6.73gm!



Mint Year: 1830
Denomination: 2 Escudos
Reference: KM-483.1.
Mint Place: Madrid (crowned M)
Material: Gold (.975)
Diameter: 22mm
Weight: 6.77gm


Obverse: Laureate bust of Ferdinand VII right.
Legend: FERDIN • VII • D • G • HISP • ET IND • R • 1830 •
Translation: "Ferdinand VII by the Grace of God, King of Spain and the Indies, 1827"


Reverse: Crowned Spanish arms between within Toison d’Or (Golden Fleece Order) chain.
Legend: • IN • UTROQ • FELIX • AUSPICE • DEO • / • (crowned M) • - • A • J
Translation: "Under God’s Auspices Happy in Both Worlds..."




Ferdinand VII (October 14, 1784 – September 29, 1833) was King of Spain from 1813 to 1833.


The eldest son of Charles IV, king of Spain, and of his wife Maria Louisa of Parma, he was born in the vast palace of El Escorial near Madrid.


When his father’s abdication was extorted by a popular riot at Aranjuez in March 1808, he ascended the throne but turned again to Napoleon, in the hope that the emperor would support him. He was in his turn forced to make an abdication and imprisoned in France for almost seven years at the Chateau of Valençay in the town of Valençay.


In March 1814 the Allies returned him to Madrid. The Spanish people, blaming the liberal, enlightened policies of the Francophiles (afrancesados) for incurring the Napoleonic occupation and the Peninsular War, at first welcomed Fernando. Ferdinand soon found that while Spain was fighting for independence in his name and while in his name juntas had governed in Spanish America, a new world had been born of foreign invasion and domestic revolution. Spain was no longer an absolute monarchy under the liberal Constitution of 1812. Ferdinand, in being restored to the throne, guaranteed the liberals that he would govern on the basis of the existing constitution, but, encouraged by conservatives backed by the Church hierarchy, he rejected the constitution within weeks (May 4) and arrested the liberal leaders (May 10), justifying his actions as rejecting a constitution made by the Cortes in his absence and without his consent. Thus he had come back to assert the Bourbon doctrine that the sovereign authority resided in his person only.


After he succeeded to the throne in 1788 his one serious occupation was hunting. Affairs were left to be directed by his wife and her lover Manuel de Godoy. Although Godoy essentially took over his wife and his office, the king was favourable towards him for all his life. When terrified by the French Revolution he turned to the Inquisition to help him against the party which would have carried the reforming policy of Charles III much further. But he never took more than a passive part in the direction of his own government. He simply obeyed the impulse given him by the queen and Godoy. In 1803, after smallpox had affected his daughter María Luísa, the king commissioned his doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis to bring the vaccine to the Spanish colonies on state expenses.


He had a profound belief in his divine right and the sanctity of his person. He thought it very important to seem a very powerful monarch, although his kingdom was treated as a mere dependency by France and his throne was dominated by the queen and her lover. Spain allied with France and supported the Continental Blockade, but withdrew after the Battle of Trafalgar. When Napoleon won from Prussia in 1807, Godoy returned to the French side, but France no longer considered Spain a worthy ally. But even the alliance with France, as it was, made Godoy’s rule unpopular and fueled the partido fernandista, the supporters of Ferdinand, who favored a close relationship with Great Britain.


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Posted by: anonymous  2016-08-05
CoinWorldTV 1830, Kingdom of Spain, Ferdinand VII. Beautiful 2 Escudos Gold Coin. 6.73gm! Mint Year: 1830 Denomination: 2 Escudos Reference: KM-483.1. R! Mint Place: Madrid (crowned M) Condition: A mall damage in reverse at 1 o'clock near crown, otherwise a nice XF-AU! Material: G ...

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-11-22
Spanien2 Escudos 1833, Sevilla. K.M. 483.2, Friedberg 315, Calicó/Trigo 181. GOLD. Vorzüglich +

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-09-02
SPANIEN Königreich Fernando VII. 1808-1833. 2 Escudos 1830, Madrid. Mmz. AJ. 6.75 g. C.T. 178. Fr. 315. Sehr schön-vorzüglich.

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-09-02
SPANIEN Königreich Fernando VII. 1808-1833. 2 Escudos 1820, Sevilla. Mmz. CJ. 6.75 g. C.T. 190. Fr. 316. Kl. Kr. Av. Sehr schön-gutes sehr schön.

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-03-01
Spain. 2 Escudos, 1830-JB (Seville). Fr-316; KM-483.2. Weight 0.1904 ounce. Ferdinand VII. PCGS graded Genuine, About Uncirculated, Details (Repaired). Estimated Value $200 - 225 Categories: World Gold

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Posted by: anonymous  2015-03-01
Spain. 2 Escudos, 1820-CJ (Seville). Fr-316; KM-483.2. Weight 0.1904 ounce. Ferdinand VII. NGC graded VF-30. Estimated Value $250 - 275 Categories: World Gold

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BRITISH VIRGIN ISLAND 1985 20 Dollars Gold Escudo Silver Crown Proof

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SPAIN, Charles III, half escudo, 1788 Seville (KM 425.2), 1788M Madrid (KM.425.1); Ferdinand VII half escudo, 1817 GJ Madrid (KM.492); Isabella, twenty reales, 1861 (KM.610); ...

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BRITISH VIRGIN ISLAND 1985 20 Dollars Gold Escudo Silver Crown Proof
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