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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 2645, member: 283&quot;]Peter,</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early days of spanish homeland coinage, the mints were (like their French equivalents, but with a few notable exceptions) mainly identified by letters, as in:-</p><p><br /></p><p>B = Burgos</p><p><br /></p><p>BA = Barcelona</p><p><br /></p><p>BGA = Berga</p><p><br /></p><p>Bo = Bilbao </p><p><br /></p><p>A mark in the shape of a scallop shell = Coruna</p><p><br /></p><p>C or CA = Cuenca</p><p><br /></p><p>C = Catalonia (late 1700&#039;s and 1800&#039;s)</p><p><br /></p><p>a crowned `C&#039; = Cadiz</p><p><br /></p><p>G, and also a flower over a G = Granada</p><p><br /></p><p>J, JA =Jubia</p><p><br /></p><p>M, a crowned `M&#039;, conjoined MD&nbsp; = Madrid</p><p><br /></p><p>P, p.P, P.L., PA = Pamplona</p><p><br /></p><p>S or SL, or S/L = Seville</p><p><br /></p><p>Sr = Santander</p><p><br /></p><p>an aqueduct (quite literally, an image of an old roman aqueduct as appears in the image provided at the start of this thread) = Segovia</p><p><br /></p><p>T, To, Tole =Toledo (also appears on occasion with a little `o&#039; on the top of the `T&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>Flags (like three windsocks on the one flag pole, one above the other) = Valladolid. It looks like a symbol for flowing water.</p><p><br /></p><p>V or VA or Val = Valencia</p><p><br /></p><p>During the period 1848 -1980 there was the `star&#039; mint marks system. The number of point on the star indicating where the coin was minted.</p><p><br /></p><p>3 points (Segovia after 1868)</p><p>4 points ( Jubia)</p><p>6 points ( Madrid)</p><p>7 points ( Seville)</p><p>8 points ( Barcelona) </p><p><br /></p><p>After 1982 Spain decided to re-introduce the long since defunct crowned `M&#039; as the mint mark of Madrid, which is now the sole official mint in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hope that helps. It would take too long to scan images of all of these (I don&#039;t think I have all of them anyway), and in any event the descriptions are fairly self explanatory.&nbsp; :^)</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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