Obverse: Crowned Hapsburg shield surrounded by legend.
Reverse: Cross of Jerusalem with which lions and castles are quartered surrounded by legend.

This coin is a genuine artifact recovered from the shipwreck Atocha which was located and salvaged by the famous treasure hunter, Mel Fisher.

Philip III was the son of Philip II and his fourth consort, a Hapsburg cousin, Anna of Austria. He inherited his father's philosophy but not his zeal for governing, and left affairs of state to subordinates while he amused himself with enormously expensive court festivities ignoring Spain’s growing economic problems.