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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2781361, member: 10461&quot;]All hail [USER=15019]@Numismat[/USER]!</p><p><br /></p><p>When I hear &quot;8-maravedis&quot;, I think of the big, chunky, half-dollar-sized milled copper ones of Isabella II in the mid-1800s.&nbsp; It seems strange that an 8-maravedis piece of more than 200 years <i>earlier</i> would be <i>smaller</i>, but I suppose this is the case sometimes.&nbsp; (Obviously it is.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit: I now recall that these are often counterstamped and sometimes &quot;retariffed&quot;, so perhaps it was an inflationary situation.&nbsp; That would explain how a copper 8-maravedis piece could be smallish in the 1600s yet much larger in the mid-1800s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edit #2: of course, at ~25 mm, your coin there is not exactly tiny, and is likely larger than the 17th century Spanish coppers I&#039;ve been accustomed to seeing.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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