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<p>[QUOTE="danielus, post: 1502323, member: 32214"]Hello.:hail: I got this coin. </p><p>[ATTACH]192868.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p><b>SPAIN - CASTILE & LEON - ENRIQUE IV </b></p><p> Enrique IV - The Impotent (1454-1474). Billon Dinero. Toledo Mint. ENRICVS DEI GRACIA/XPS VINCIT XPS REG. Type 28a, Cayon #1719. </p><p> </p><p> Looking for cataloging data, I found the following. In “Ancien Coins”:</p><p> <span style="color: black">“</span><span style="color: black">This coin </span><span style="color: black"><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black">type</span></a></span><span style="color: black"> has an important connection to the New World. When archaeologists excavated La Isabela, the site where </span><span style="color: black"><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black">part</span></a></span><span style="color: black"> of the crew of Columbus's second voyage spent a few years on the island of Hispanola, this </span><span style="color: black"><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black">type</span></a></span><span style="color: black"> was found more often than any other. Queen Isabella did not strike any small coins in the early </span><span style="color: black"><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black">part</span></a></span><span style="color: black"> of her reign, so these coins, which </span><span style="color: black"><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=had" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=had" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: black">had</span></a></span><span style="color: black"> been struck by her elder brother Henry IV, served as the "pennies" of that time.”</span></p><p> </p><p> The problem is that everything points to an article by Alan Stahl of Princeton University, located in: "Coins from the excavations at La Isabella, D.R.", published in the American Journal of Numismatics Ser, 5-6 pp.189-209.</p><p> </p><p> That this type of currency was <span style="color: #ff0000">found in "Isabella"</span> is a funny thing, even stranger to me<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. So I'm looking for the full article. Does anyone have by chance?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I would be very grateful if someone could inform me about it.</p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> [FONT=&amp]I also found[/FONT][FONT=&amp]this in : <a href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" rel="nofollow">http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78</a></p><p><a href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" rel="nofollow"></a>[/FONT]<a href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992&section=78" rel="nofollow">[ATTACH]192869.vB[/ATTACH]</a> </p><p>Fig. 70. Once the concretion was removed from this encrusted Spanish coin, details emerged which helped identify and date this copper coin, a blanca, minted between 1471 and 1474 during the reign of Henry IV. Corrosion product (left), Obverse side of coin (right).</p><p>[ATTACH]192870.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>Fig. 71. Type 28 blanca minted in Cuenca, Spain 1471-1474. (From Cayon and Castan 1991, not to scale). </p><p> <span style="color: #ff0000">Fifty-nine blancas of this type</span> were unearthed during excavations at La Isabela in the Domincan Republic, the first European settlement in the New World, which was founded by Christopher Columbus in 1494 (Stahl 1992; Deagan 1992). A single <i>blanca</i> of Henry IV also was found at the Long Bay site on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, which is argued to have been the first American landfall of Columbus in 1492. Analysis by atomic absorption and emmission spectography of the San Salvador coin determined that it contained 3.97% silver and 95.7% copper (Brill 1987).</p><p><br /></p><p> Does anyone know anything more about it?</p><p>Thank you.</p><p>Best regards.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p> Daniel[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="danielus, post: 1502323, member: 32214"]Hello.:hail: I got this coin. [ATTACH]192868.vB[/ATTACH] [B]SPAIN - CASTILE & LEON - ENRIQUE IV [/B] Enrique IV - The Impotent (1454-1474). Billon Dinero. Toledo Mint. ENRICVS DEI GRACIA/XPS VINCIT XPS REG. Type 28a, Cayon #1719. Looking for cataloging data, I found the following. In “Ancien Coins”: [COLOR=black]“[/COLOR][COLOR=black]This coin [/COLOR][COLOR=black][URL="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type"][COLOR=black]type[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][COLOR=black] has an important connection to the New World. When archaeologists excavated La Isabela, the site where [/COLOR][COLOR=black][URL="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part"][COLOR=black]part[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][COLOR=black] of the crew of Columbus's second voyage spent a few years on the island of Hispanola, this [/COLOR][COLOR=black][URL="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=type"][COLOR=black]type[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][COLOR=black] was found more often than any other. Queen Isabella did not strike any small coins in the early [/COLOR][COLOR=black][URL="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=part"][COLOR=black]part[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][COLOR=black] of her reign, so these coins, which [/COLOR][COLOR=black][URL="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=had"][COLOR=black]had[/COLOR][/URL][/COLOR][COLOR=black] been struck by her elder brother Henry IV, served as the "pennies" of that time.”[/COLOR] The problem is that everything points to an article by Alan Stahl of Princeton University, located in: "Coins from the excavations at La Isabella, D.R.", published in the American Journal of Numismatics Ser, 5-6 pp.189-209. That this type of currency was [COLOR=#ff0000]found in "Isabella"[/COLOR] is a funny thing, even stranger to me:eek:. So I'm looking for the full article. Does anyone have by chance?:o. I would be very grateful if someone could inform me about it. [FONT=&]I also found[/FONT][FONT=&]this in : [URL="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992§ion=78"]http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992§ion=78 [/URL][/FONT][URL="http://www.flheritage.com/archaeology/projects/shipwrecks/emanuelpoint/reports/index.cfm?doc=ep1992§ion=78"][ATTACH]192869.vB[/ATTACH][/URL] Fig. 70. Once the concretion was removed from this encrusted Spanish coin, details emerged which helped identify and date this copper coin, a blanca, minted between 1471 and 1474 during the reign of Henry IV. Corrosion product (left), Obverse side of coin (right). [ATTACH]192870.vB[/ATTACH] Fig. 71. Type 28 blanca minted in Cuenca, Spain 1471-1474. (From Cayon and Castan 1991, not to scale). [COLOR=#ff0000]Fifty-nine blancas of this type[/COLOR] were unearthed during excavations at La Isabela in the Domincan Republic, the first European settlement in the New World, which was founded by Christopher Columbus in 1494 (Stahl 1992; Deagan 1992). A single [I]blanca[/I] of Henry IV also was found at the Long Bay site on San Salvador Island in the Bahamas, which is argued to have been the first American landfall of Columbus in 1492. Analysis by atomic absorption and emmission spectography of the San Salvador coin determined that it contained 3.97% silver and 95.7% copper (Brill 1987). Does anyone know anything more about it? Thank you. Best regards.:) Daniel[/QUOTE]
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