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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iPen, post: 2087804, member: 69760&quot;]ok so the most common Spanish Milled dollar is the one minted in Mexico City, although there may have been some from other cities&#039; dollars circulating during the American Revolution (1775-1783).. is what I&#039;m hearing.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m interpreting the Wiki entry below to mean that Spanish origin refers to Spanish coins, regardless of mint city, rather than mint cities in Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency</a></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The coins in circulation in the colonies were most often of Spanish and Portuguese origin.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#cite_note-Michener-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#cite_note-Michener-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> The prevalence of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar" rel="nofollow">Spanish dollar</a> in the colonies led to the money of the United States being denominated in dollars rather than pounds.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#cite_note-Michener-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_American_currency#cite_note-Michener-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a>&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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