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Message:: [QUOTE="jlblonde, post: 2031287, member: 32000"]This one was struck in 1542 when the Mexico mint was still set up in the home of Cortez.[/QUOTE] Wow! This is about time period when the Spanish families that make me and my kin up traveled and settled in central Mexico, near Guadalajara. My paternal family owned vast tracks of lands throughout the centuries, which were divided up into smaller ranches over generations. I've often wondered if they did in fact bury small amounts of cash (ie: silver & gold) on their properties. In the extreme remoteness of these ranches where else would they have placed them. There were no banks to speak of and the Spanish Iberians were always ready to tax the Spanish Criollos at every turn. In an earlier post, I had mentioned how my father and his brothers found a cask of 8 Reales on their ranch. When they showed the coins to my grandfather he smirked and said they were of no value because they were old and were counterfeit.Indeed they were counterfeits, but were silver nonetheless.Here is the last surviving example in our possession: [ATTACH=full]369667[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]369668[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]