Historical new souvenir token (8Escudos):

Ideal as a visual aid with a historical background. Or for LARP & reenactment. A perfect gift for collectors or as an addition to your own collection: 

Historical souvenir token 38 mm: 26.5 g bronze

As pictured.

Philip V of Anjou (Spanish Felipe V; * December 19, 1683 in Versailles; † July 9, 1746 in Madrid), Duke of Anjou (1683–1700), was King of Spain from 1700 to 1746 and also King of Sardinia and King of Sicily and Naples until 1713. In 1724 he briefly resigned from office for his son Louis I. He was the first Spanish ruler from the House of Bourbon; his reign of 45 years is the longest in the history of the Spanish monarchy.

Philip V was born the second son of the Dauphin Louis and his wife Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria. He was the younger brother of Louis, Duke of Burgundy, and grew up at the court of his grandfather Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles. In 1700, he was third in line to the French throne after his father and his older brother Louis. His younger brother was Charles, Duke of Berry. He was taught by François Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai. Louis' three sons were also taught by Paul de Beauvilliers.

War of the Spanish Succession

In 1700, Charles II died childless. In the same year, Philip was proclaimed heir to the Spanish Habsburgs and thus King of Spain by his grandfather Louis XIV of France. However, the Austrian Habsburgs and other European states contested his right of succession, which triggered the War of the Spanish Succession, which lasted from 1701 to 1713/14. In this war, the Bourbon states of France and Spain, with a few allies (including the Wittelsbach states of the Electorate of Bavaria and the Electorate of Cologne), faced a powerful coalition whose centers were Austria, Great Britain and the Netherlands. The main goal of this coalition was to prevent French dominance in Europe from being further strengthened by Philip's seizure of power. Therefore, according to Great Britain's wishes, Spain should either be divided between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs or, according to Austria's wishes, should fall entirely to a younger representative of the House of Habsburg, but France saw this as a threat to its interests.

In Spain, Philip V temporarily lost Aragon and Catalonia, including Barcelona, ​​to the Habsburg pretender Archduke Charles, the later Roman-German Emperor Charles VI, who also claimed the throne as the Spanish rival king of Charles III. The Spanish possessions in Italy also fell to the Austrian Habsburgs. It was only when Charles became emperor after the death of his older brother Joseph I in 1711 and thus heir to all of the Habsburg states that the anti-Bourbon coalition broke up, as people now feared Habsburg dominance. Therefore, on November 5, 1712, Philip V renounced the right to rule Spain and France in personal union in the event of the possible extinction of his French relatives.[1] However, the right of his collateral line to inherit the French throne remained untouched. Thus, the danger of a Bourbon dual monarchy was eliminated, and the emperor's allies could accept Philip as King of Spain. The Peace of Utrecht in 1713/14 brought another compromise: Philip was allowed to keep all of Spain and its huge colonial empire, but had to cede all of Spain's previous possessions in Italy and the Netherlands to his opponents - the kingdoms of Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, the Duchy of Milan, and the Spanish Netherlands. Another consequence of this international treaty was the cession of Gibraltar to Great Britain, which is still under British administration today.