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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 407719, member: 112&quot;]And that is an 800 pound gorilla that is hard to get around.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yes the copper coins did circulate even though the time period previously believed is inaccurate. And yes the Indians hated the coins. They hated them so much in fact that when they received any of the copper coins they immediately threw the coins in Lake Texcoco &quot;that they might never more be seen&quot;. An interesting side note of the history of the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>And that is precisely the source for the examples known today. For the existing examples have been found in the muddy lake bottom during drainage operations. That also explains why so few examples are known for with copper being so reactive and subject to corrosion most of the coins have corroded away to nothing.</p><p><br /></p><p>It should also probably be noted, in the interst of accuracy, that when quoting Pradeau as source material to remember that Pradeau also claims that no 8 reales coins were ever minted in Mexico City prior to 1572. We now know that not to be true for examples of the 8 reale coinage have been found, authenticated and dated as early as 1538.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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