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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbreeze, post: 2979972, member: 86726&quot;]The coins were minted with the actual dates in the stars.&nbsp; Many Spanish coins of that era have the same thing.&nbsp; The dates do not change on the obverse.&nbsp; I am assuming that the date is the first year of that particular obverse, but I haven&#039;t looked at every series to know that.&nbsp; The stars are the only change from year to year.&nbsp; Why they do this, I don&#039;t know.&nbsp; Maybe it saves money to only change the stars each year and use the same dies every year.&nbsp; It sort of compares to Ottoman coins that have a regnal year, than follow up successive coins by changing the year of the reign.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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