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4 cruzados gold coin

Philip II as king of Portugal (early 17th century)　・　gold　・　17th century　・　Lisbon

4 cruzados gold coin（obverse）
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A gold coin of the personal union, when the king of Spain was also king of Portugal. The legend reads Philippus, but at the centre of the field stands the shield of Portugal. Kings might change while coinage and arms stayed apart—the sixty years of union, and its official fiction, summarised on a single coin.