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Cobs, Pieces Of Eight And Treasure Coins: The Early Spanish-american Mints And Their Coinages, 1536-1773
Cobs Pieces Of Eight And Treasure Coins The Early Spanishamerican Mints And Their Coinages 15361773
Author: Sewall H. Menzel
the 1520s the Spanish crown began to realise through expanded explorations of the likes of Hernando Cortez and Francisco Pizarro that it was in charge of an enormous empire requiring extensive settlement and systems of control. Royal mints were founded to control, evaluate and tax gold and silver coming from the mines, as well as to produce the ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780897222860
ISBN-10: 0897222865
Publication Date: 12/2004
Pages: 484
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Publisher: American Numismatic Society
Book Type: Paperback
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