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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;droccu, post: 1532088, member: 39879&quot;]<p style="text-align: center"><p style="text-align: left"><b>What&#039;s it worth?</b></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH]202882.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]202883.vB[/ATTACH]</p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: center"><b>1759 Guatemala Ferdind VI, 8 reales, Spanish Colonial</b></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"></font></span><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: center"><b>Silver DOS MUNDOS or PILLAR COINAGE </b></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"></font></span><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><p style="text-align: center">THE COIN THAT YOU SEE IS THE ACTUAL COIN.</p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"></font></span><b><b>This is a highly collectible eight reales of 1759, Guatemala </b><b>mint, pillar type with similar crown; </b><b> rare, very fine &quot;DOS MUNDOS or PILLAR Spanish Colonial COINAGE&quot;. </b></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b><b>Overview:</b></b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><b>&quot;G&quot;(Guatemala)</b>- the origin or mint where the coin was struck</font></span><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><b>&#039;1759&#039; </b>-&nbsp; the year of mintage</font></span><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><b>&#039;P&#039; ( Pedro Sanchez de Guzman)&nbsp; </b>- assayer&#039;s initial</font></span><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><b>&#039;8&#039; reales</b>- denomination of the coins</font></span><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><b>&#039;Ferdind VI&#039;</b> - the ruling monarch </font></span><font face="Arial"><b><b>Design</b></b></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #404040">OBVERSE:the crowned Pillars of Hercules and the crowned hemispheres of the Old and New World floating on the sealegend PLUS ULTRA, which means &quot;further beyond&quot;, on the scroll the twines on the pillarsdepicted the Spanish colonial domination of both Old and New World with the latin inscription -- &quot;VTRAQUE VNUM&quot;, meaning the union of two worlds.REVERSE:the crowned Coat of Arms of Spain, along with the Latin legend &quot;FERDIND-VI-D-G-HISPAN-ET- IND-REX&quot; (Ferdinand VI - By the grace of God; King of Spain and the Indies.)</span></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><br /></font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font face="Arial"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #404040">For additional history on these types of coin, you may check out my blog on this : </span></font></font><a href="http://urightbrothers.blogspot.com/2012/09/coins-and-history-famous-pieces-of.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://urightbrothers.blogspot.com/2012/09/coins-and-history-famous-pieces-of.html" rel="nofollow">Coins and History: The famous &quot;pieces of eight&quot;- ...</a><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #404040"><font face="Arial"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></font></span></p></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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