Quarter Real Coin Ring, Sterling Silver
- Description
1808 Spanish Quarter Real Coin Mounted in Sterling Silver Flip Bezel Ring with the Castle side dominant. Obverse: Crowned Lion Rampant. Reverse: Castle, centered with mint mark to the left, denomination to the right and year below. This coin was excavated from the Rimac River in Lima Peru.
"Real", or the plural "Reales", means royal. Reales were a unit of currency in Spain for several centuries. First struck in Lima, a Spanish colony in the Americas, in 1796, the tiny quarter real, called a quartilla, was the only new type of coinage issued in Spain's american colonies during the reign of Carlos IV, predecessor to Ferdinand VII. The first Ferdinand VII coinage was struck August 12, 1808. The quarter real issued 1801-1816 was the same lion and castle type as under previous rulers.
The Rimac River is the primary source of fresh water in Lima, Peru. "Rimac" is a native Indian name that translates to "talk". Consequently, Spanish colonists referred to the river as "El Rio Hablador" or the Talking River. For a period of several hundred years, Lima's residents viewed the Talking River as a wishing well. To cast a small coin into its inviting waters was an assurance for the person or young couple seeking good fortune. In recent years, young boys who used the river for bathing discovered their own good fortune. Over the centuries, the mud banks of the river have captured and preserved literally thousands of small Spanish silver coins, similar to this one, minted between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
SKU:
H-R76-C-AS363
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