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Obverse: Crowned Coat of Arms surrounded by legend.
Reverse: Cross with lions and castles 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. The original copy of the "Fisher" certificate accompanies this document.
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.
Philip resided in Valladolid in the first years of his reign and eventually fixed his court in Madrid where he died in 1621 after a two-year illness. His third son, Philip IV, succeeded him.
He was married to Marguerite of Austria by whom he had eight children.
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