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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 7943204, member: 96174&quot;]Hi Glass</p><p><br /></p><p>Even if you don&#039;t read Spanish, I would recommend that you buy Casa de Moneda de Madrid by Glen Murray. This is the history of the Madrid mint from 1614 when it first opened up to 1868. It has pictures of every coin produced there with year by year mintage figures for every coin, plus detailed info on the fineness of the gold and silver used, the assayers marks and names, individual weights of each coin.</p><p>On this point it is worth noting that in the early days, the diameter or thickness was not important. What counted was the weight. In a &quot;marco&quot;, the standard weight used, equivalent to 23.005 kilos, an underweight tolerance of 0.39% was acceptable. In 100 marcos, this was the equivalent to an extra 3 reales de ocho. These were put aside for the private use of the monarch. If the coins were overweight, they were melted down and reminted. </p><p>You can order the book - it is not very expensive - from Amigos de la Casa de la Moneda de Segovi (Glen Murray wrote the history of that mint too) PO Box 315, E 40080 Segovia, Spain, <a href="http://www.SegoviaMint.org" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.SegoviaMint.org" rel="nofollow">www.SegoviaMint.org</a>, <a href="mailto:info@segoviamint.org">info@segoviamint.org</a></p><p>or on Facebook Ceca Segovia[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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