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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Teddydogno1, post: 1959676, member: 71226&quot;]Found a great article on Spanish coins circulating in the Colonies!&nbsp; Find it here:&nbsp; <a href="http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Sp-Silver.intro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Sp-Silver.intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinIntros/Sp-Silver.intro.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Particularly interesting related to my coin are the last two paragraphs, which indicate that my coin was of the &quot;debased&quot; variety that was SUPPOSED to stay in Spain, but in fact ended up being exported and widely used in the New World (especially the 2R).&nbsp; It traded at about 5 bits (2R coins) to the dollar rather than 4!&nbsp; They called it &quot;new plate&quot;, or a &quot;pistareen&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Quoting from the above article:</p><blockquote><p><i>Fortunately, the English colonists could readily identify the Spanish &quot;new plate&quot; silver like the pistareen from the Spanish colonial pillar silver. The &quot;new plate&quot; silver had the crowned heraldic Hapsburg shield on the obverse while on the reverse was a cross with the Castile and Leon shield, thus these coins were known as the &quot;cross&quot; reales (and cross pistareens).</i></p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p>From the same scholarly work, see <a href="http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/Sp-milled.2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/Sp-milled.2.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/ColCoinText/Sp-milled.2.html</a>&nbsp; The 1 Reale coin pictured at top is the same pattern as mine, but earlier.&nbsp; Appears to confirm the Seville mintage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pretty cool, I think!</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW...are the pictures in my first post broken for anyone else?&nbsp; They are now just &quot;x&quot;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rob[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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