Watch List notes:

Brabant, Spanish Netherlands (Antwerp Mint), 1 real d'espagne, Charles-Joanna, 1517, rare. 2.76 grams. Typically broad, thin flan with fine, intricate features, toned AU with light surface corrosion, edge-split. This important and rarely offered issue was struck to fund Charles' travel from what is now Belgium to Spain in order to claim the throne he shared with his mentally incompetent mother, Queen Joanna. Most of the coinage was subsequently melted. Featured on the reverse is the famous "fire steel" of the Order of the Golden Fleece superimposed over the Cross of Burgundy, a motif that appears in some tax stamps on gold bars from the "Tumbaga Wreck" (ca. 1528).

Estimate: $500 - $750