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<p>[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7719534, member: 87809"]Nice coin [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just wondering why the attribution is from the Potosi mint, in the Bolivian Tin Belt (Cerro Rico de Potosí) but on the obverse there is an "M" which stands for Mexico. </p><p>Maybe the silver came from Potosi, but the "M" was used to differentiate coins that were minted in Mexico, as is explained here and I quote:</p><p><br /></p><p>"....posteriormente surgieron los reales o pesos de a ocho, los cuales estaban compuestos de 27.5 gramos de plata con 93% de pureza, los cuales eran equivalentes a 1 tomín de peso de tepuzque o de castellana. Esta moneda posteriormente fue producida en Perú, así que los españoles acuñaban con una “M” a las monedas producidas en México."</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://plumasatomicas.com/noticias/economia/peso-primer-moneda-uso-global-historia/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://plumasatomicas.com/noticias/economia/peso-primer-moneda-uso-global-historia/" rel="nofollow">https://plumasatomicas.com/noticias/economia/peso-primer-moneda-uso-global-historia/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="cmezner, post: 7719534, member: 87809"]Nice coin [USER=110226]@robinjojo[/USER]. Just wondering why the attribution is from the Potosi mint, in the Bolivian Tin Belt (Cerro Rico de Potosí) but on the obverse there is an "M" which stands for Mexico. Maybe the silver came from Potosi, but the "M" was used to differentiate coins that were minted in Mexico, as is explained here and I quote: "....posteriormente surgieron los reales o pesos de a ocho, los cuales estaban compuestos de 27.5 gramos de plata con 93% de pureza, los cuales eran equivalentes a 1 tomín de peso de tepuzque o de castellana. Esta moneda posteriormente fue producida en Perú, así que los españoles acuñaban con una “M” a las monedas producidas en México." [URL]https://plumasatomicas.com/noticias/economia/peso-primer-moneda-uso-global-historia/[/URL][/QUOTE]
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