Watch List notes:

La Plata, Bolivia, 8 reales-sized proclamation medal, Ferdinand VII, 1808. Medina-311; Herrera-26. 27.11 grams. Obverse with crowned, rampant lion holding down a two-headed eagle with his lower paw, the upper paw touching a double-stacked castle, inside legend . FERDINANDO . VII [ornament] HISP . ET IND . R . [La Plata monogram] . 1808; reverse with La Plata city arms (double-headed eagle, three mountains, four castles) inside legend . OPTIMO . PRINC . PUBLICE . FIDELIT . IURAT . [ornament]; square-and-circle edge per bust-type 8 reales. Richly toned and problem-free AU, popular medal symbolizing support for the Spanish resistance under Ferdinand VII against the Napoleonic regime in Spain.


Estimate: 300 - 450 USD