Who paid for Columbus to take his journey:
Ferdinand & Isabella (1469 - 1504)
SPAIN Castile & Leon (Castilla y Leon)
AR 2 Reales
FERDANDVS : ET : HELISABET : D :
Crowned shield of arms breaking inner beaded circle.
: REX : ET REGINA : CAST : LEGIO : ARAGON
Bow and arrows within beaded inner circle
Granada Mint. 29mm
6.80g.
Cayon 2622
Ferdinand I himself.
Ferdinando I (Don Ferrante). (1458 - 1494 A.D.)
ITALY, Napoli (Regno)
AR Coronato
Third Coinage, Class 2.
O: FRDINANDVS D G R SICI IER V, cross potent; annulet and double annulet stops.
R: CORONATVS QA LEGITIME CERTA, crowned bust right; annulet and double annulet stops. C to left.
Napoli (Naples) mint. Struck 1472-1488
2.59g
25mm
CNI XIX 348/347 (obv./rev.); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 16b (for type); MIR 68/16; cf. MEC 14, 981-2 (same)
When I was a kid with a paper route, I would occasionally get one of these in change. That was always a thrill for a young collector. The one's I did have 'disappeared' while I was in the Navy - joined at 17 and younger brother at home probably needed money. Cheers, RickO
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El Salvador Peso

Who paid for Columbus to take his journey:

Ferdinand & Isabella (1469 - 1504)
SPAIN Castile & Leon (Castilla y Leon)
AR 2 Reales
FERDANDVS : ET : HELISABET : D :
Crowned shield of arms breaking inner beaded circle.
Bow and arrows within beaded inner circle
Granada Mint. 29mm
6.80g.
Cayon 2622
Ferdinand I himself.

Ferdinando I (Don Ferrante). (1458 - 1494 A.D.)
ITALY, Napoli (Regno)
AR Coronato
Third Coinage, Class 2.
O: FRDINANDVS D G R SICI IER V, cross potent; annulet and double annulet stops.
R: CORONATVS QA LEGITIME CERTA, crowned bust right; annulet and double annulet stops. C to left.
Napoli (Naples) mint. Struck 1472-1488
2.59g
25mm
CNI XIX 348/347 (obv./rev.); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 16b (for type); MIR 68/16; cf. MEC 14, 981-2 (same)
A SCD which I found in a Detroit Lakes, MN, yard while playing as a youngster back in the '60's.

Ferdinand & Isabella (1469-1504)
Spain (Séville)
AR 1 Reale
2.8g
--Severian the Lame
^Nice coins.
I like the El Salvador Peso of yours too!
I owned one but didn't like it that much so I'm still on the hunt for a nice example.
Steve
My collecting “Pride & Joy” is my PCGS Registry Dansco 7070 Set:
https://www.pcgs.com/setregistry/type-sets/design-type-sets/complete-dansco-7070-modified-type-set-1796-date/publishedset/213996
Love this thread!
However it was a Norwegian that truly discovered America many years before Columbus…and yes i am Norwegian!
PCGS MS65!
Also…@Downtown ..
Interesting that your 1893 Columbia’s cert ended with the number that it did…
Missed it by that much!
In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day:

An Isabella as well (same coin, two different TrueViews and two different grades):


Commems and Early Type
When I was a kid with a paper route, I would occasionally get one of these in change. That was always a thrill for a young collector. The one's I did have 'disappeared' while I was in the Navy - joined at 17 and younger brother at home probably needed money.
Cheers, RickO