- Extremely Fine Mexico Shield type Colonial Spain silver 1 real coin
- Struck between 1572 to 1589 for King Philip II at the Mexico City Mint (mint mark Mo), assayer O.
- Catalog: Calico 224, approx 25mm, 3.14g.
- Nearly full readable legends, very rare as such for this denomination!
- Certified by NGC to XF 45.
- Obverse: PHILIPPVS II DEI GRATIA, integrated crowned arms of Spain (Castile and Leon, two Sicilies and Aragon, House of Austria, Burgundy, Flanders, Tyrol, Brabant).
- Reverse: HISPANIARVM ET INDIARVM REX, arms of Castile and Leon.
- Type of coinage used in American Colonies.
- Philip II was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, King of Naples and Sicily from 1554, Duke of Milan from 1540, Lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands from 1555. Also jure uxoris King of England and Ireland from his marriage to Queen Mary I in 1554 until her death in 1558.
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