Spanish Colonial coinage

unclemac

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Imagine being used to reliable silver and gold coinage in Mexico for over 200 years. Not just reliable, but you are in fact setting the world standard. Everyone uses and trusts your coins from the tip of South America, to the North Pole (so to speak). The Caribbean, the Philippines, Australia, China....on and on, and on.... The USA uses it and HAS to. coins like these...
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...and then POOF almost over night, you are reduced to this...AND you better not be using the wrong sides coinage either! This is called, the Mexican War of Independence.
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...and the ones I've just posted BARELY scratch the surface of what they produced and used...
 

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They made their way even up into Canada. Would love to dig a 8R.
 

poor Canada... treated like a stray dog by the Brits. If you collect Canada currency THIS is a must have!
...notice it pays in US (half dollar)...Spanish Colonial (4 reales)... British (2 shillings, 6 pence)... old French (1 ecu) ...and New French (3 francs)
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poor Canada... treated like a stray dog by the Brits. If you collect Canada currency THIS is a must have!
...notice it pays in US (half dollar)...Spanish Colonial (4 reales)... British (2 shillings, 6 pence)... old French (1 ecu) ...and New French (3 francs)
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Love that one, imagine the difficulty of figuring out pricing with three totally different monetary units!
 

5 units!....AND...different provinces used different currency standards of exchange, both York standard and the Halifax standard. Canada wasn't Canada until 1867... but actually Newfoundland didn't join until 1949.
 

5 units!....AND...different provinces used different currency standards of exchange, both York standard and the Halifax standard. Canada wasn't Canada until 1867... but actually Newfoundland didn't join until 1949.
Yikes, I missed that! Thanks.
 

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