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Message:: [QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 1582204, member: 42034"]Nice pieces, particularly the gold escudo.  I guess these were made in very small quantity for payment of government debts or government VIPs and were made for local circulation rather than for foreign exchange/export?  I Googled the following: 1540 Santiago is founded1700 The population of Chile is about 100,0001800 The population of Chile reaches about 500,0001810 After the king of Spain is deposed the leading citizens of Chile elect a junta1814 A Royalist army occupies Santiago1817 The Royalists are defeated at Chabuco1818 Chile becomes independent I'd guess that the population of Chile in 1838 was maybe 200% greater than in 1800 so maybe a pop of 1 million persons?  One can do a mathematical regression and get a better guess even without more census info.  Since they only struck 6,122 HOB 1 escudos of this year and this is the only year they struck the type I'm not sure how it impacted the economy.  Clearly it wasn't made for export purposes.  Maybe they made them to show they could make them and again for important employees?  I guess they used British pounds and French 20F's for almost all transactions requiring gold??  As you know these coins [Latin American issues] were legal tender in the USA until 1857. I'm having a hard enough time just getting some of the basic types in the crown sizes which are the most common.  This is a very nice & rare 1E. Regarding your comment about a compendium that might be interesting.  I've talked with World Coin News about writing a series of articles on the history and coins of the early Latin American (+ Brasil) Republics.  However I get too busy with work sometimes. My Chilean coins are shown on my website: coinsandhistory   the link is here  : <a href="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Chile.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Chile.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinsandhistory.com/countries/Chile.html</a>I've had this website for about 11 years and cannot recall one comment about any of the types displayed.  Also everyone at the local (Florida) coin club collects USA Kennedy Half dollars (1964-present) and maybe a few other US coins, they have no idea about any non-USA coinage at all- that's why I joined this group.[/QUOTE]

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