Christopher Columbus Cristoforo Colombo Cristóbal Colón However you say it, keep your pie holes shut and let's see your coins!!!
El Salvador Peso Who paid for Columbus to take his journey: Ferdinand & Isabella (1469 - 1504) SPAIN Castile & Leon (Castilla y Leon) AR 2 Reales FERDANDVS : ET : HELISABET : D : Crowned shield of arms breaking inner beaded circle. + : REX : ET REGINA : CAST : LEGIO : ARAGON Bow and arrows within beaded inner circle Granada Mint. 29mm 6.80g. Cayon 2622 Ferdinand I himself. Ferdinando I (Don Ferrante). (1458 - 1494 A.D.) ITALY, Napoli (Regno) AR Coronato Third Coinage, Class 2. O: FRDINANDVS D G R SICI IER V, cross potent; annulet and double annulet stops. R: CORONATVS QA LEGITIME CERTA, crowned bust right; annulet and double annulet stops. C to left. Napoli (Naples) mint. Struck 1472-1488 2.59g 25mm CNI XIX 348/347 (obv./rev.); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 16b (for type); MIR 68/16; cf. MEC 14, 981-2 (same)
Good Lord. People are tearing down statues of this old sod. Saying he was mean and cruel to the indigenous population. Let those who lack sin cast the first stone.........
No kidding. He will always be one of my favorite historical figures I learned in school & got me into history as a whole. And if those people stop and think, if it wasn't Columbus, someone else would have found "the new world" and that person would be the target.
Here's some world silver, 50 Centavos from El Salvador 1892! Christobal Colon, but it's the same dude!
