1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53
1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53
1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53

1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53
1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53! Mint Year: 1798 Denomination: 2 Escudos Reference: Friedberg 296, KM-435.1. Mint Place: Madrid (privy mark: crowned M) Condition. Minor deposits in protected areas, otherwise a nice XF! 875 Diameter: 22mm Weight: 6.77gm. Obverse: Draped profile bust of Charles IV right. Charles IV by the Grace of God, King of the Spains and Indies 1798. Reverse: Shield under crown within Golden Fleece Order collar. Value (2-S) in fields. Legend: AUSPICE DEO IN UTROQ FELIX (privy mark: crowned M) MF (assayer initials) Translateion. Under God’s Auspices Happy in Both (Worlds). The doubloon (from Spanish doblon, meaning “double”), was a two-escudo or 32-reales gold coin, weighing 6.77 grams (0.218 troy ounces). Doubloons were minted in Spain, Mexico, Peru, and Nueva Granada. In Spain, doubloons were current up to the middle of the 19th century. In Europe the doubloon became the model for several other gold coins, including the French Louis d’or, the Italian doppia, the Swiss duplone, the Northern German pistole, and the Prussian Friedrich d’or. Was King of Spain from. Until his abdication on. Charles was the second son of Charles III and his wife Maria Amalia of Saxony. He was born at Portici, while his father was king of the Two Sicilies. His elder brother Don Felipe was passed over for the two thrones as mentally retarded and epileptic. Charles had inherited a great frame and immense physical strength from the Saxon line of his mother, granddaughter of August the Strong. When young he was fond of wrestling with the strongest countrymen he could find. While he was considered by many to be intellectually sluggish and quite credulous he was also known for his acts of kindness. In 1788, Charles III died and Charles IV succeeded to the throne. Even though he had a profound belief in the sanctity of his office and kept up the appearance of an absolute, powerful monarch, he never took more than a passive part in the direction of his own government, occupying himself with hunting. The affairs of government he left to his wife and his prime minister. In 1792, Maria Louis finally succeeded in ousting the Count of Floridablanca from office and had him replaced with Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda, the chief of the. However, in the wake of the war against Republican France, the liberal-leaning Count of Aranda was replaced by Manuel de Godoy, a favourite of the Queen and allegedly her lover, who would henceforth enjoy the lasting favour of the King. Godoy continued Aranda’s policy of neutrality towards France but after Spain protested against the execution of the deposed king in 1793, France declared war on Spain and in 1795 forced Godoy to conclude an alliance and declared war on Great Britain. In 1803, after smallpox had affected his daughter Maria Luisa, the king commissioned his doctor Francisco Javier de Balmis to bring the vaccine to the Spanish colonies on state expenses. Spain remained an ally of France and supported the Continental Blockade until the the British naval victory at Trafalgar. However, After Napoleon’s victory over Prussia in 1807, Godoy again steered Spain back onto the French side. This switching back and forth devalued Charles’ position as a trustworthy ally while the return to the French alliance increased Godoy’s unpopularity and strengthened. The supporters of Crown Prince Ferdinand, who favored a close relationship with Great Britain. When King Charles was told that his son Ferdinand was appealing to Napoleon against Godoy, he took the side of the minister. When the populace rose at Aranjuez in 1808 he abdicated on. In favour of his son, to save the minister who had been taken prisoner. Ferdinand took the throne as Ferdinand VII, but was distrusted by Napoleon who had 100,000 soldiers in Spain by that time. Charles IV found refuge in France, and became a prisoner of Napoleon: the latter, posing as arbiter, summoned both Charles IV and his son to Bayonne in April and coaxed Charles (who had a difficult time restraining himself from assaulting his son) to retract his earlier abdication and abdicate, on. In favour of Napoleon. Charles was then interned in Talleyrand’s castle in Valençay. He accepted a pension from the French Emperor and spent the rest of his life between his wife and Godoy, staying briefly in Compiègne and more durably in Marseille. In 1812, he finally settled in Rome in the Palazzo Barberini, where he died on. The item “1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53″ is in sale since Monday, August 30, 2021. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Europe\Spain”. The seller is “coinworldtv” and is located in Wien. This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Composition: Gold
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Spain
  • Certification: NGC
  • Denomination: 2 Escudos
  • KM Number: 435.1.
  • Grade: AU 53
  • Year: 1798

1798, Spain, Charles IV. Spanish Gold 2 Escudos Coin. (6.77gm) NGC AU-53
1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Re-Strike! NGC MS-63
1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Re-Strike! NGC MS-63
1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Re-Strike! NGC MS-63

1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Re-Strike! NGC MS-63
1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Mint Year: 1915 Re-Strike! Denomination: Gold 4 Ducats. Reference: Friedberg 488, KM-2276. Certified and graded by NGC as MS-63! 986 Weight: 13.96gm. Obverse: Wreathed and draped bust of the mature Francis Joseph right. Reverse: Austrian imperial double headed eagle with coat of arms at chest, holding sword, imperial staff and orb. The last significant Habsburg monarch. Franz Josef was the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl (Francis Charles), who was brother and heir of Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I. Because his father renounced his right to the throne, Franz Josef became emperor when Ferdinand abdicated near the end of the revolution of 1848. By the time Franz Josef stepped onto the throne, Austria’s position as a European “great power” was already in serious decline. Three external factors furthered Austria’s decline. Lingering Russian ill will was a factor in the July (1914) Crisis which led to the outbreak of WWI. – The unification of Italy provided a new threat to the empire. In the decade that followed, Austria lost nearly all of its Italian possessions, such as Lombardy and Venetia. – The rise of Prussian dominance of the German Confederation, and Austria’s loss of the Austro-Prussian war in 1866. German unification in 1871 made Austria the lesser of the two German powers. Austria was weakened by these reverses. Franz Josef had little choice but to negotiate with Hungary on its demands for autonomy. Austria and Hungary agreed to create a dual monarchy in which the two countries would be equal partners. Under the empire of Austria-Hungary, as it was known after 1867, Hungary had complete independence in internal affairs, but the two countries acted jointly in foreign affairs. (This fact contributed to the slowness of A-H’s response to the murder of Franz Ferdinand). The same year, Franz Josef and Elizabeth were formally crowned king and queen of Hungary. Franz Josef married Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria, in 1854. They had one son, Rudolf, and three daughters. As the dual monarch, Franz Josef planned to grant some form of self-government to the Austrian Slavs, but the German and Magyar elites who actually controlled the empire opposed any sharing of power. The resulting dissatisfaction among Austrian Czechs and Serbs further weakened the Habsburg realms and caused increased friction with Russia, which championed the cause of Europe’s Slavic peoples. Franz Josef’s later years were marked by a series of tragedies in his family. In 1885 his only son and heir to the throne, Archduke Rudolf, committed suicide; Franz Josef’s second younger brother, Karl Ludwig, had died in 1896 from illness due to bad water he drank while on a holy lands pilgrimage; in 1898 Elizabeth was assassinated by an Italian anarchist. Succession to the Austrian throne was not simple. Following the suicide of Franz Josef’s only son Rudolf, the next in succession would have been Franz Josef’s younger brother Maximillian. Maximillian, however, had been executed by a firing squad in Mexico in 1867 after a 3 year reign as Emperor of Mexico. Karl Ludwig’s oldest son, Franz Ferdinand replaced Rudolf as heir to the throne. Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo in June 1914. The assasination precipitated a crisis which led to the outbreak of World War I. Franz Josef died on November 21, 1916. He did not live to see Austria’s defeat in the war. His grand nephew, Karl I assumed the throne for two years, but was the last Habsburg monarch. William served in the army from 1814 onward, fought against Napoleon I of France during the Napoleonic Wars, and was reportedly a very brave soldier. He fought under Blücher at the Battles of Waterloo and Ligny. He also became an excellent diplomat by engaging in diplomatic missions after 1815. During the Revolutions of 1848, William successfully crushed a revolt that was aimed at his elder brother King Frederick William IV. The use of cannons made him unpopular at the time and earned him the nickname. In 1857 Frederick William IV suffered a stroke and became mentally disabled for the rest of his life. In January 1858 William became Prince Regent for his brother. On January 2, 1861 Frederick William died and William ascended the throne as William I of Prussia. He inherited a conflict between Frederick William and the liberal parliament. He was considered a politically neutral person as he intervened less in politics than his brother. William nevertheless found a conservative solution for the conflict: he appointed Otto von Bismarck to the office of Prime Minister. According to the Prussian constitution, the Prime Minister was responsible solely to the king, not to parliament. Bismarck liked to see his work relationship with William as that of a vassal to his feudal superior. Nonetheless it was Bismarck who effectively directed the politics, interior as well as foreign; on several occasions he gained William’s assent by threatening to resign. In the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War William was proclaimed German Emperor on January 18, 1871 in Versailles Palace. The title “German Emperor” was carefully chosen by Bismarck after discussion until (and after) the day of the proclamation. William accepted this title grudgingly as he would have preferred “Emperor of Germany” which, however, was unacceptable to the federated monarchs, and would also have signalled a claim to lands outside of his reign Austria, Switzerland, Luxemburg etc. The title “Emperor of the Germans”, as proposed in 1848, was ruled out from the start anyway, as he considered himself chosen “by the grace of God”, not by the people as in a democratic republic. This Empire was a federal state; the emperor was head of state and president. First among equals of the federated monarchs (the kings of Bavaria, Württemberg, Saxony, the grand dukes of Baden and Hesse, and so on, not to forget the senates of the free cities of Hamburg, Lübeck and Bremen). On May 11, 1878, Max Hödel failed in an assassination attempt on William in Berlin. A second attempt was made on June 2, 1878, by the anarchist Karl Nobiling, who wounded William before committing suicide. These attempts became the pretext for the institution of the Anti-Socialist Law, which was introduced by Bismarcks government with the support of a majority in the Reichstag in October 18, 1878, for the purpose of fighting the. The laws deprived the Social Democratic Party of Germany of its legal status; they prohibited all organizations, workers mass organizations and the socialist and workers press, decreed confiscation of socialist literature, and subjected Social-Democrats to reprisals. The laws were extended every 2-3 years. Despite this policy of reprisals the Social Democratic Party increased its influence among the masses. Under pressure of the mass working-class movement the laws were repealed on October 1, 1890. In his memoirs, Bismarck describes William as an old-fashioned, courteous, infallibly polite gentleman and a genuine Prussian officer, whose good common sense was occasionally undermined by “female influences”. The item “1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Re-Strike! NGC MS-63″ is in sale since Thursday, September 16, 2021. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ World\Europe\Austria”. The seller is “coinworldtv” and is located in Wien. This item can be shipped worldwide.
  • Composition: Gold
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Austria
  • Certification: NGC
  • Denomination: 4 Ducats
  • KM Number: 2276
  • Grade: MS 63
  • Year: 1915

1915, Austria, Francis Joseph I. Large Gold 4 Ducats Coin. Re-Strike! NGC MS-63
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