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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7500352, member: 110226&quot;]Hi Al</p><p><br /></p><p>The Spanish continued to produce hammered coinage, especially in the colonies for practical reasons.&nbsp; Die presses were expensive as were the dies they required.&nbsp; Given the enormous amount of silver being produced in Potosi, Bolivia and in Mexico, producing hammered coinage was cheap and expedient.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Much of the hazardous work, such as the refining process involving the mixing of ore and mercury and extracting ore in the mines, was done by indigenous natives forced into service.&nbsp; Under these primitive, brutal conditions crudely made dies and haphazardly made flans often resulted in muddled and incomplete strikes.&nbsp; From the view of the Spanish, these coins, or ingots, sufficed as long as they had some mark on one or both sides denoting that the coin was made with the official sanction of the Spanish Crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s one of those coins, from Potosi, dated 1770, assayer V.</p><p><br /></p><p>KM 45</p><p><br /></p><p>26.9 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1296272[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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