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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 66370, member: 112"]Well yes and no. If you're asking is there a book where you can go a look up the mintage numbers for a given year and mint - no there is no such book. But you can determine, with a bit of work, approximate mintage numbers for given dates and mints. The Spaniards kept track of the total weight in silver they struck into coins in any given year. In 1978, Alberto Pradeau did the research and published the total weights for the Mexico City mint for the years 1733 through 1771. So what you have to do is take those total weights for a year & mint, and using the percentages by weight that were recorded by the Potosi mint for the various denominations ( since they were the only ones who ever kept track ) - you can get a pretty good idea of mintage numbers. In a nutshell - approx 57% of the total weight was 8 reales. Each of the other 4 denominations was 11%. You can find most of the information you need to determine the Mexican mintages in the book - The Milled Columnarios of Central & South America  by Frank Gilboy.[/QUOTE]