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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 7886953, member: 112&quot;]They all minted them, not for shipment back to Spain, but for local use. And yeah, you&#039;re right, the Spanish colonies were always begging, downright pleading with Spain for them to ship them coins for local use. But Spain would never, ever send enough, so they had to mint them themselves.</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s an interesting anecdote that goes along with the earliest days of the first Spanish colonial mint in Mexico. When the Spanish first arrived, the local Indians tried to give them copper because the locals highly valued copper, it was their most commonly used metal. But the Spanish didn&#039;t want copper, they wanted gold and silver, which the locals used but didn&#039;t value it as much as they did the copper.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, once the colony was up and running, the local mint began issuing copper coins for use in local commerce for their own soldiers and the local population. But the locals remembered that the Spanish never wanted the copper, so the locals were always reluctant to accept and use the copper coins for commerce. They only wanted to use the gold and silver which is what the Spanish placed the most value on ! They saw the copper as being inferior just like the Spanish did in the beginning.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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