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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gallienus, post: 2412897, member: 42034&quot;]Remember at the time that the USA, with it&#039;s Revolution still in recent history, was an inspiration for Latin America.&nbsp; LA finished with it&#039;s own Wars of Independence &amp; began making it&#039;s own coinage without Spanish Kings in the 1820&#039;s.&nbsp; Thus the USA Capped Bust coinage, instead of the earlier types would&#039;ve been familiar to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ecuador was really quite backwards and this was their 1st crown sized silver coin.&nbsp; It was struck only in 1846; their next type was slightly different &amp; was made only in 1858: that one was still a Capped Bust but&nbsp; not a direct copy of the US type.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if they knew the Capped Bust design ceased in &#039;39 when they made this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I think I posted the 1806 one before.&nbsp; Bought way before slab times (early 1980&#039;s) these are what I used to collect:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/USA_50c_1806_both.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://coinsandhistory.com/pix_coin/USA_50c_1830_both.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The 1830 came from a Whitman folder date set of Bust halves in the late 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; Unfortunately I have no really decent ones from the 1807-1824 early period.&nbsp; I did sell a bunch of my slabbed US when I stopped really collecting USA, but never parted with my early pieces.&nbsp; The 1830 has no damage &amp; I paid all of $30 or $31 for it (in the late 70&#039;s).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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