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<p>[QUOTE="Bardolph, post: 3154162, member: 96174"]These is interesting and baffling too, but allow me to make a few comments.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the first place, I think the Philippines can be discarded. This is clearly not a coin, and while it does seem to have some age, the Spanish did not mint any coins whatsoever in the Philippines before 1861 when they set up a mint in Manila.</p><p><br /></p><p>“Peso” on this item does not refer to Peso as a coin – it is the Spanish for weight, so UN PESO SAGRADO means “a sacred weight” – a term often related to St Christopher when he is portrayed crossing a river carrying Christ on his back, but could also refer to a sacred charge or obligation.</p><p><br /></p><p>SENIOR is odd- it doesn’t exist in modern Spanish, but in earlier times the letter I and Y were interchangeable, so it could be SENYOR – which also doesn’t exist in Spanish, but is the Catalan form of Señor, meaning lord, or THE LORD.</p><p><br /></p><p>JOSEP is wrong too. Joseph in Spanish has always been José – except in Catalan, where the final P has always existed and been pronounced.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, could it be from Catalonia? Or a Catalan speaking area, such as the Balearic Islands? I don’t know, but it is possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only memorable event linking Spain and the New World in September was the landing in Virginia of a group of Spanish Jesuit missionaries who founded the ill-fated Ajacan mission. In the list of the priests and brother who took part in the mission, there is not one Catalan surname. But in the attached article on this subject (link below), one of the superiors who was involved in the planning or the authorization of the mission is a certain Father Rogel – a very, very Catalan-sounding surname. Looking in the local Barcelona telephone directory there are a number of families with Rogel as their surname – the nearest is only 10 minutes drive away from my home.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20030830.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20030830.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20030830.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Why Jesuits? As is well known, the Jesuits, even though they are subjects of different lands, t swear direct allegiance to Rome, to the Pope, and only take orders from Rome, via their hierarchical superiors. This would explain why ROME appears on the medallion</p><p><br /></p><p>And the seven keys? This may be a reference to the medieval story that King Solomon, who before he died, hid all his treasure, locked it up with seven keys (or seals) and gave each of his seven illegitimate sons a key and sent them off throughout the world.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the Renaissance however, the story seems to have been modified and importance was given to the keys, not the treasure. These were not physical keys, but spiritual or metaphysical concepts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first key corresponds to certainty, the second key is coherence, the third impeccability (in the original meaning of “being without, or incapable of committing, sin”), the fourth is consideration (thinking carefully), fifth is action, sixth execution (of the action) and the seventh and last, union and unification. See the link below from a Spanish blog I have found:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://detrasdeloaparente.blogspot.com/2017/10/las-siete-llaves.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://detrasdeloaparente.blogspot.com/2017/10/las-siete-llaves.html" rel="nofollow">https://detrasdeloaparente.blogspot.com/2017/10/las-siete-llaves.html</a> </p><p><br /></p><p>All good values for Jesuits going without military protection into an unknown territory to convert heathens…. The triangle which holds the keys may represent God, the Holy Trinity.</p><p><br /></p><p>So my guess is that this silver item may have been given to the Jesuit missionaries before they set off. Where would it have been made? Probably not in Havana, perhaps in Santo Domingo where a mint began operating as early as 1500, or else in Mexico.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bardolph, post: 3154162, member: 96174"]These is interesting and baffling too, but allow me to make a few comments. In the first place, I think the Philippines can be discarded. This is clearly not a coin, and while it does seem to have some age, the Spanish did not mint any coins whatsoever in the Philippines before 1861 when they set up a mint in Manila. “Peso” on this item does not refer to Peso as a coin – it is the Spanish for weight, so UN PESO SAGRADO means “a sacred weight” – a term often related to St Christopher when he is portrayed crossing a river carrying Christ on his back, but could also refer to a sacred charge or obligation. SENIOR is odd- it doesn’t exist in modern Spanish, but in earlier times the letter I and Y were interchangeable, so it could be SENYOR – which also doesn’t exist in Spanish, but is the Catalan form of Señor, meaning lord, or THE LORD. JOSEP is wrong too. Joseph in Spanish has always been José – except in Catalan, where the final P has always existed and been pronounced. So, could it be from Catalonia? Or a Catalan speaking area, such as the Balearic Islands? I don’t know, but it is possible. The only memorable event linking Spain and the New World in September was the landing in Virginia of a group of Spanish Jesuit missionaries who founded the ill-fated Ajacan mission. In the list of the priests and brother who took part in the mission, there is not one Catalan surname. But in the attached article on this subject (link below), one of the superiors who was involved in the planning or the authorization of the mission is a certain Father Rogel – a very, very Catalan-sounding surname. Looking in the local Barcelona telephone directory there are a number of families with Rogel as their surname – the nearest is only 10 minutes drive away from my home. [url]http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20030830.html[/url] Why Jesuits? As is well known, the Jesuits, even though they are subjects of different lands, t swear direct allegiance to Rome, to the Pope, and only take orders from Rome, via their hierarchical superiors. This would explain why ROME appears on the medallion And the seven keys? This may be a reference to the medieval story that King Solomon, who before he died, hid all his treasure, locked it up with seven keys (or seals) and gave each of his seven illegitimate sons a key and sent them off throughout the world. In the Renaissance however, the story seems to have been modified and importance was given to the keys, not the treasure. These were not physical keys, but spiritual or metaphysical concepts. The first key corresponds to certainty, the second key is coherence, the third impeccability (in the original meaning of “being without, or incapable of committing, sin”), the fourth is consideration (thinking carefully), fifth is action, sixth execution (of the action) and the seventh and last, union and unification. See the link below from a Spanish blog I have found: [url]https://detrasdeloaparente.blogspot.com/2017/10/las-siete-llaves.html[/url] All good values for Jesuits going without military protection into an unknown territory to convert heathens…. The triangle which holds the keys may represent God, the Holy Trinity. So my guess is that this silver item may have been given to the Jesuit missionaries before they set off. Where would it have been made? Probably not in Havana, perhaps in Santo Domingo where a mint began operating as early as 1500, or else in Mexico.[/QUOTE]
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