Real Compañía de San Fernando - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 07:40:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Real Compañía de San Fernando - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Shares of the Royal Company of San Fernando de Sevilla https://historylab.es/shares-of-the-royal-company-of-san-fernando-de-sevilla/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shares-of-the-royal-company-of-san-fernando-de-sevilla Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:14 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/acciones-de-la-real-compania-de-san-fernando-de-sevilla/ The image depicts shares in the Real Compañía de San Fernando de Sevilla, in favour of Pedro de Astrearena, a resident of Madrid, worth 250 pesos each.

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]]> The Real Compañía de San Fernando was founded in Seville in 1748 to promote trade in the Indies. Each share had a value of 250 pesos fuertes, worth fifteen reales de vellón. The rich engraved decoration on the share makes it a title of great aesthetic value. Its innumerable engravings include images of the Virgin Mary, Saint Ferdinand, Saint Isidore and various emblematic buildings of the city of Seville, such as the Casa de Indias and the Torre del Oro (Golden Tower) over the Guadalquivir. Pedro de Astrearena, the second Marquis of Murillo de Cuende by succession, was the king’s assistant and a shareholder in other trading companies, such as those of Havana and Buenos Aires.

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