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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1598077, member: 112"]Your quote is a good example of what I wast talking about. Charles V was not "of Germany". He was Spanish, both his parents were Spanish, but he was actually born in the Netherlands. Yes, he also ruled over Germany, but only as the Holy Roman Emperor. As for Mount Abyla, that name dates from an encyclopedia printed in 1921. Today the mountain is known as Mount Acho (or Hacho). In English it is known as Mount Moses. But the idea, the story, of the Pillars of Hercules goes back to ancient times. They were first described by Pindar, and legend (at the time of Charles V) held that the Pillars bore the inscription Non Plus Ultra - nothing beyond. And that is exactly why the legend Plus Ultra was chosen to be the legend on the Spanish colonial coins, because they now had proof that there was indeed something beyond those pillars. This is one of the earliest Pillar designs, from a coin I used own. A 1542 4 reales struck in Mexico City. The first coins ever struck in the New World were struck there in 1536, in the actual home of Cortez. As this one was. [ATTACH]224160.vB[/ATTACH] This is the design that Charles V used. As you can see, it's quite a bit different than the much later Pillar Dollars. And it bears no resemblance to the dollar sign.[/QUOTE]