271, Lot: 182. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SPAIN, Castile & León. Fernando V & Isabel I (Los Reyes Católicos - the Catholic royals). 1474-1504. AV Doble excelente (29mm, 7.06 g, 3h). Toledo mint. Struck 1497-1504. + FERNANDVS · ET · HELISABET · DEI · GRATIA · REX · (tricorne stops), crowned and mantled busts of Fernando and Isabel facing one another; above and between, cross above T / SVBVNBRA · ALARVM · TVARVM · PROTEGE · NOS (tricorne stops), crowned coat-of-arms; behind, forepart of eagle left, wearing nimbus crown, with wings spread. ME 2941; Calicó 98; Friedberg 130. Good VF, surfaces slightly granular. Excellent portraiture and of refined style.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Vecchi 1 (1 February 1996), lot 1566.