Royal Mint of Seville, Spain
| nome nella lingua locale | Real Casa de la Moneda de Sevilla |
|---|---|
| Posto | Seville, Spain |
| Date di operazione | ?-1868 |
| Vedi anche |
Wikidata (Q9067030), Wikipedia [CA], [ES], [EU]  , Nomisma (seville) |
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According to some historians, the first minting of coins in the city of Seville was during the time of Julius Caesar. However, most believe that this occurred between 15 and 14 BC. C., in the time of Augustus. What is certain is that in the time of Tiberius the city of Seville, known as Colonia Rómula Híspalis, already had coining workshops. Money was minted with the Romans and the Byzantines, followed by a pause in the minting of money in the city until the time of the Visigoth king Leovigild, when it was resumed.
The coining work continued in the Muslim period. In 1248, the troops of Ferdinand III entered the city victoriously, and another stage began in which Seville continued to be one of the main mints, in this case of the Crown of Castile and León.
The Catholic Monarchs maintained the Sevillian mint, along with that of Toledo or Cuenca, as one of the main ones of the kingdoms under this dynastic union, and it would be the prelude to what would come shortly after. Pre-pragmatic coins such as the ½ Real, the Real, the ½ Castellano, the Castellano and the double Castellano were minted during their lifetime, starting in 1475.
After the pragmatic of 1497, and still in Isabel's lifetime, there would be time to mint copper coins like the white one and one real coins with the complete arms on the obverse. With Joana I and Charles I, the coins known as “in the name of the Catholic Monarchs” were minted, with a typology and modules marked by the Pragmatics of 1497, and which continued until the Pragmatics of the New Stamp of 1566, already in times of Philip II. Philip II embodies the zenith of the Sevillian mint, the majority of the gold and silver that enters Europe from the New World is minted here. With Philip III, coppers, the 2 maravedis, and the same silver and gold began to be minted as in the times of his father. In the time of Philip IV, the 2, 4, 8 and 16 maravedis were minted, including the vellón series, which caused the mint to triple the “blood” mills it had to mint vellón. The silver and gold are the same as in his father's time. With Charles II we have the 2 maravedís, and the same multiples of the real (except the half-real) and escudos as his father.
Philip V introduced the flywheel press in Seville and, with the six flywheels built by the Portuguese Manuel Fonseca, preciousness arrived in the coining of Sevillian pieces. The Monetary Ordinance of 1728, and regulations of 1729 and 1730, order the collection and fusion of the macuquina currency and its replacement by coins produced by mechanical means that from now on will be constituted by flywheel presses, they also establish the centralization of the mints, which will leave the exclusivity of minting silver and gold to Madrid and Seville, and copper to Segovia. With the following Bourbons (Fernando VI, Carlos III and Carlos IV) the usual modules in silver and gold continued to be minted in Seville.
The French invasion arrived, and with it the minting in Seville of the 4, and especially the 20 “reales de vellón” of Joseph I. The minting in the times of Ferdinand VII includes all the silver modules and the 2 gold Escudos, Isabel II being the last queen to mint money in Seville, both copper, silver and gold. In 1861 the new factory in Madrid was inaugurated, which caused the Royal Mint of Seville
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