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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2936562, member: 72790&quot;]Most of the Spanish silver coming into the US prior to the end of the Napoleonic Wars was not coming from the Iberian peninsula but from the mints and trade with the Spanish Colonies in the New World. That trade actually increased following the independence of these colonies who simply revamped the appearance, but not the weight and fineness, of the coinage. Dollars from Mexico City after independence (via the Santa Fe Trail trade) and the other Latin American mints were considered to be as much legal tender as those coins from the same mints when they were under Spanish control, as long as the new republics kept the silver content the same as under Spanish control.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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