Description
Spain, Catalonia, Ferdinand VII (1808), silver 5 Pesetas / Duro, 1808, emergency issue, Girona, 26.33g (KM 10). Good Very Fine, contact marks to surfaces, deep cabinet tone.
This coin was struck during the Peninsular War, a major part of the Napoleonic Wars, began in 1808 and lasted until 1814 when France was defeated. Fought in the Iberian Peninsula, the conflict involved France against Spain, Portugal, and Great Britain. In 1808 France occupied Spain, which had been its ally. Napoleon forced the abdications of Ferdinand VII and his father Charles IV and installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne
