Spain - 1811

VI Quartos
Obverse - Spain - VI Quartos 1811 Reverse - Spain - VI Quartos 1811
Obverse - Coat of arms surmounted by a crown.
Legend, FERDIN . VII . HISP . REX . A flower stop.
Exergue, 1811
Reverse - A shield surmounted by a crown.
Legend, PRINCIP. CATHAL.
Exergue Within a spray of flowers, VI. QUAR.
Size, 32 mm.
 
This was the first piece of Spanish provincial coinage I'd seen from the Napoleonic period. It's about the size of a US fifty-cent piece.