Pillar $

bidask · November 25, 2006 2:20AM

Guess the grade?

Reverse.

bidask · November 25, 2006 2:27AM

Obverse.

WWW · November 25, 2006 2:31AM

I see a 1825 CAR 8R. Sweet coin. AU55

bidask · November 25, 2006 2:34AM

Gentleman this is the first time I have ever posted pics.....bear with me.

bidask · November 25, 2006 2:36AM

Did I delete the jpgs? How do I upload the picture itself and not the jpg?

WWW · November 25, 2006 2:42AM

How do I upload the picture itself and not the jpg?
In message post mode, click on the Image icon (4th button from the left) and insert the URL for the image file name that you want to appear.

Cladiator · November 25, 2006 7:03AM

Yowzers, that looks like one hell of a Central American Republic! Can we see the other side?

bidask · November 25, 2006 7:50AM

<< Yowzers, that looks like one hell of a Central American Republic! Can we see the other side? >>

This is my first attempt at posting pics , which side can you see now?

Cladiator · November 25, 2006 8:27AM

<< 

<< Yowzers, that looks like one hell of a Central American Republic! Can we see the other side? >>

This is my first attempt at posting pics , which side can you see now? >>

The side with the mountains.

bidask · November 25, 2006 8:49AM

coinkat · November 25, 2006 11:29AM

terrific coin... worthy of an AU grade

bidask · November 25, 2006 11:10PM

<< terrific coin... worthy of an AU grade >>

Actually a PCGS MS 60, I will try to get a better picture to post!

Aethelred · November 25, 2006 11:20PM

That is a coin that I have always been fond of.

coinkat · November 26, 2006 1:33AM

60 is alittle surprising... it looks as if it could be MS, but a 60 grade is not given all that often.

Lynch · November 26, 2006 1:42AM

This is a decent example of a very attractive design.

The 5 mountains represent the 5 constituent states of the CAR: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

The Ceiba tree represents the CAR and the legend (somewhat optimistically) reports that it is "free, growing and fruitful".

BTW, the title of this thread is misleading. The CAR 8 Reales is not a "pillar dollar". The coin known by that name is the milled silver "Columnarios" 8 reales type issued by the Spanish colonial authorities 1732-1772, long before the emergence of the first Latin American republican issue (which was the 8 reales/soles type first struck by Argentine republican insurgents following their capture of the Mint at Potosi from Royalist forces in 1813).

The pillar dollar features the 2 crowned globes representing the Old and New Worlds united under the Spanish Crown, above the waves framed by the 2 columns (or pillars, which represent the Pillars of Hercules) and the words "Plus Ultra" ("More Beyond" i.e. there's a whole New World beyond the Pillars of Hercules and it is the property of the Spanish King).

You can see a picture of a genuine pillar dollar in the first few pages of the Red Book.

BS · November 26, 2006 2:17AM

Great looking coin. I really need to get one of those.

bidask · November 26, 2006 7:45AM

<< This is a decent example of a very attractive design.

The 5 mountains represent the 5 constituent states of the CAR: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

The Ceiba tree represents the CAR and the legend (somewhat optimistically) reports that it is "free, growing and fruitful".

BTW, the title of this thread is misleading. The CAR 8 Reales is not a "pillar dollar". The coin known by that name is the milled silver "Columnarios" 8 reales type issued by the Spanish colonial authorities 1732-1772, long before the emergence of the first Latin American republican issue (which was the 8 reales/soles type first struck by Argentine republican insurgents following their capture of the Mint at Potosi from Royalist forces in 1813).

The pillar dollar features the 2 crowned globes representing the Old and New Worlds united under the Spanish Crown, above the waves framed by the 2 columns (or pillars, which represent the Pillars of Hercules) and the words "Plus Ultra" ("More Beyond" i.e. there's a whole New World beyond the Pillars of Hercules and it is the property of the Spanish King).

You can see a picture of a genuine pillar dollar in the first few pages of the Red Book. >>

Yes your right...I got my pictures mixed up with my post...I took some new pictures and will try to post pictures of the same coin.

bidask · November 26, 2006 7:51AM

<< 

<< This is a decent example of a very attractive design.

The 5 mountains represent the 5 constituent states of the CAR: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

The Ceiba tree represents the CAR and the legend (somewhat optimistically) reports that it is "free, growing and fruitful".

BTW, the title of this thread is misleading. The CAR 8 Reales is not a "pillar dollar". The coin known by that name is the milled silver "Columnarios" 8 reales type issued by the Spanish colonial authorities 1732-1772, long before the emergence of the first Latin American republican issue (which was the 8 reales/soles type first struck by Argentine republican insurgents following their capture of the Mint at Potosi from Royalist forces in 1813).

The pillar dollar features the 2 crowned globes representing the Old and New Worlds united under the Spanish Crown, above the waves framed by the 2 columns (or pillars, which represent the Pillars of Hercules) and the words "Plus Ultra" ("More Beyond" i.e. there's a whole New World beyond the Pillars of Hercules and it is the property of the Spanish King).

You can see a picture of a genuine pillar dollar in the first few pages of the Red Book. >>

Yes your right...I got my pictures mixed up with my post...I took some new pictures and will try to post pictures of the same coin. >>