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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;izotz, post: 819140, member: 5446&quot;]Nice coins. Although I live in Madrid, I come from the Basque Country. There is an interesting discussion about this. Although some books talk about &quot;Viscaya&quot;, I think it is an incorrect term for it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s say that &quot;Vizcaya&quot; is just a part of the Basque Country (Euskadi) or Euzkadi that you can read on the coin. The funny part of it is that I was born in Vitoria (Alava), the capital of the Basque Country. So it would be similar that you said to a London citizen that you have a one pound coin in your want list, and you place it in the &quot;Scottish country&quot; :-D . Anyway I suppose that is the way that some catalogs may speak about it (as Krause do).</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a lot of interesting information about it. During Spanish civil war, the country broke into two. As both sides needed their coins, there were two central banks at the same time, plus many regions who issued their own coins as they needed them. If you have a look at the map, you will understand that central bank in Madrid could not supply its coins to the Basque Country (in the north, surrounding Bilbao).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/7466/frenteguerracivilagostotg1.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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