正面
正面的文字 PHILIPP° D.G. HISPAN. R..
正面的说明书 Buste cuirassé, avec un col fraisé de Philippe III à gauche.
正面的翻译 (Philippe, par la grâce de Dieu, Roi d’Espagne).
背面
背面的文字 + BARCINO CIVITAS. 161Z.
背面的说明书 Croix cantonnée aux 1 et 4 d’un annelet et au 2 et 3 d’un groupe de trois points posés en triangle.
背面的翻译 (Cité de Barcelone, 1612).
历史细节
SPAIN - KINGDOM OF SPAIN - PHILIP III
(1598-1621)
Philip III (1578-1621) is the third son of Philip II, from his fourth marriage, that with Ana of Austria. On the death of his father in 1598, he became king of Spain and the Americas, Portugal, the Spanish Netherlands and the Milanese. He continued his father's fight against France, but with the Edict of Nantes, the end of the religious wars and the personality of Henri IV, this policy failed. He then began an economic war in order to asphyxiate France by imposing 30% duty on goods coming or going to France in 1603. Henri IV replied by imposing the same taxes on goods to or from Spain. After the death of Henri IV, Philippe married his daughter Anne of Austria (1601-1666) to the young Louis XIII in 1615, while the latter's sister, Elisabeth, married the future Philippe IV. Philip III died in 1621.