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<p>[QUOTE="Bardolph, post: 3428738, member: 96174"]I agree, a genuine 2 reales de Cuenca, as shown by the mintmark CA underneath the somewhat worn R of reales. (Please note: 1 real, a half real, with no final ‘e’, but for 2, 3 or any other number the plural is reales. Webster accepts either reals or reales, but most numismatists prefer the Spanish plural reales).</p><p><br /></p><p>The mint in Cuenca, some 160 kilometres south-east of Madrid, was established in 1369 by Enrique II of Castille, and enjoyed varying degrees of success. It was closed from 1621 to 1651 and from 1664 to 1718, except for a couple of years when it was opened to produce copper Maravedis (1680-1681). The mint was re-opened in 1718 and produced ½ real and 1 real coins up until 1727 and 2 reales until 1726. (2 reales from Cuenca dated 1717 do exist, but since the mint was clearly not open in that year, they were backdated for some reason).</p><p><br /></p><p>Cuenca also produced, for one year only, the gold 4 escudos, in 1725.The mint was definitively closed in 1728. Throughout the whole of the final few years of the mint’s existence, the assayer was Juan Jose Garcia Caballero, who used the initial JJ. The first J can be seen near the hole in this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>As has been pointed out, producing an underweight coin was an extremely rare offence which was severely punished. A coin could be almost any shape, diameter or thickness, as so many colonial coins often were, but the weight was the most important element, hence the proliferation of coin weights for all the major coins throughout mediaeval Europe. The other important element was the gold or silver content. From 1497 to 1706, the silver content of all Spanish coins was 93.055%.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1707 onwards, Spanish silver was of two qualities; the high quality “Moneda Nacional”, the 8 and 4 reales which were primarily used in international trade and “Moneda Provincial” (1/2 real, 1 real and 2 reales) intended for internal or domestic use with a lower silver content.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the period 1709-1728, which covers this Cuenca coin, the silver content of Moneda Provincial coins was 83.333% and a 2 real piece weighed 6.135 grams. Moneda Nacional coins contained 91.666 grams of silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bardolph, post: 3428738, member: 96174"]I agree, a genuine 2 reales de Cuenca, as shown by the mintmark CA underneath the somewhat worn R of reales. (Please note: 1 real, a half real, with no final ‘e’, but for 2, 3 or any other number the plural is reales. Webster accepts either reals or reales, but most numismatists prefer the Spanish plural reales). The mint in Cuenca, some 160 kilometres south-east of Madrid, was established in 1369 by Enrique II of Castille, and enjoyed varying degrees of success. It was closed from 1621 to 1651 and from 1664 to 1718, except for a couple of years when it was opened to produce copper Maravedis (1680-1681). The mint was re-opened in 1718 and produced ½ real and 1 real coins up until 1727 and 2 reales until 1726. (2 reales from Cuenca dated 1717 do exist, but since the mint was clearly not open in that year, they were backdated for some reason). Cuenca also produced, for one year only, the gold 4 escudos, in 1725.The mint was definitively closed in 1728. Throughout the whole of the final few years of the mint’s existence, the assayer was Juan Jose Garcia Caballero, who used the initial JJ. The first J can be seen near the hole in this coin. As has been pointed out, producing an underweight coin was an extremely rare offence which was severely punished. A coin could be almost any shape, diameter or thickness, as so many colonial coins often were, but the weight was the most important element, hence the proliferation of coin weights for all the major coins throughout mediaeval Europe. The other important element was the gold or silver content. From 1497 to 1706, the silver content of all Spanish coins was 93.055%. From 1707 onwards, Spanish silver was of two qualities; the high quality “Moneda Nacional”, the 8 and 4 reales which were primarily used in international trade and “Moneda Provincial” (1/2 real, 1 real and 2 reales) intended for internal or domestic use with a lower silver content. In the period 1709-1728, which covers this Cuenca coin, the silver content of Moneda Provincial coins was 83.333% and a 2 real piece weighed 6.135 grams. Moneda Nacional coins contained 91.666 grams of silver.[/QUOTE]
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