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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 8378840, member: 8959&quot;]I collect Spanish Colonial, focusing specifically on the Santiago, Chile mint, with an occasional coin from the Lima, Peru mint. My focus period covers the reign of Carlos III to Fernando VII.</p><p><br /></p><p>Regarding reference catalogues and pricing: </p><p><br /></p><p>There is a very detailed work by Cayon which you can download from the internet. I believe there is a new upfated version which come out 2 or 3 years ago.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As insider mentioned, there is the Brad Yonaka book on columnario coinage (Dos Mundos) minted until 1772. It covers all mints of the New World which minted this coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>Before Yonaka&#039;s book, the main reference guide for Columnarios was Frank Gilboys work. This work is perhaps a bit dated now, but an excellent background source on all aspects of New World mints, as well as (of course) varieties, including rarity ratings. None of these cover prices. </p><p><br /></p><p>For the Lima mint, I have an ancient (1970&#039;s) copy of a catalogue by Dale Seppa. It does cover pricing. Maybe there has been an updated version in the meantime.</p><p><br /></p><p>For Santiago coins there are reference works, notably C. Jaras voluminous work which covers the period from 1749 (opening of the Santiago mint), until 1772.</p><p>It does not cover pricing, but describes the scarcity of the various issues in both gold and silvers. More recently, a catalogue by P. Moya has appeared which covers all silvers colonial issues, from the 8 reales to the 1/4 real struck at the Santiago mint, i.e from 1750 until 1817. It is a practical reference for prices.</p><p><br /></p><p>What I use for pricing is primarily prices realized from Acsearch, and also the Heritage archive and the Aureo/Calico Archive (excellent).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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