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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Chris B, post: 25292013, member: 87179&quot;]I just pulled the trigger on this one. I like coins on coins plus the &quot;history of the dollar&quot; I found to be interesting on a coin from Spain. When I saw the reverse had a Wildman I was hooked.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1615432[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Commemorative issue: History of the Dollar</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: In the center, inside a pinwheel pattern, is reproduced the portrait of the king Felipe VI looking left, wearing the distinctive of Captain General; circling the central motif, clockwise and inside another pinwheel pattern, appears the obverse and reverse of a coin of eight reales; a fleur de lis; obverse and reverse of a Dollar of 1794, the first issued in the United States; another fleur de lis and front and back of a Joachimsthaler.</p><p>Script: Latin</p><p>Lettering:</p><p>HISTORIA DEL DÓLAR</p><p>FELIPE VI</p><p>REY DE ESPAÑA</p><p>HISTORY OF THE DOLLAR</p><p><br /></p><p>Reverse: On the reverse, in the center of the coin appear the Columns of Hercules, girded with a band with the motto PLVS VLTRA and, below, the mark of Ceca. Surrounding the central motifs, in a clockwise direction, appear the obverse and reverse images of a Reichsthaler, a Leeuwendaalder, a Speciedaler and, in the lower part of the coin, a Maria-Theresien-Taler; surrounding these motifs, a gillile of pine nuts interrupted in its upper and lower part.</p><p>Script: Latin</p><p>Lettering:</p><p>ESPAÑA 2017</p><p>300 EURO</p><p>PLUS ULTRA</p><p>M</p><p><br /></p><p>Edge: Plain with numbers (the numbers indicate the serial number of the coin, with a maximum mintage of 1000 units)</p><p>Script: Latin</p><p>Lettering: 0452/1000</p><p><br /></p><p>Mint: M&nbsp; &nbsp; Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda), Madrid, Spain (1591-date)</p><p><br /></p><p>Comments: The Royal Mint (FNMT) has wanted to dedicate its first mintage of a one-kilogram silver coin to the history of the American dollar, whose origins go back to Central European thaler and Spanish colonial America, with the real of eight.</p><p>The coin reproduces different numismatic pieces that are fundamental to understand this history of the dollar, its origins and ancestors</p><p><br /></p><p>Composition: Silver (.999)</p><p>Weight: 1007 g</p><p>Diameter: 100 mm[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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