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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bardolph, post: 24768717, member: 96174&quot;]There seems to be a difference of opinion here, or perhaps more acurately, a certain degree of confusion. Pellicer states that beginning in 1591 or 1593 and ending in 1600, the&nbsp; letter C stands for Juan Caballero, assayer of the Toledo mint. </p><p><br /></p><p>However, during the year of 1600, he was then succeeded by Melchor Rodriguez del Castillo who is the assayer until 1616. Interestingly enough, Rodriguez del Castillo was the assayer in the Segovia old mint from 1598 to 1602. In other words, he was responsable for two mints in the period 1600-1602. </p><p><br /></p><p>And a further intriguing fact is that the assayer in the old Segovia mint from 1623 to 1626 was Pedro Henriquez whose mark was the letter P - perhaps our elusive P from both Madrid and Toledo???</p><p><br /></p><p>Pellicer does not identify the Toledo assayer P with the Segovia assayer P - or indeed with the Madrid P - because he has found no written proof. It is however a possibility that they were the same person[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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