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Spanish provential issues.....a rough looking group

worldcoinguyworldcoinguy Posts: 3,030 ✭✭✭✭✭
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The designs surely will not win any beauty contests, but I find the Spanish province coinage to be quite intriguing. The Majorca piece is the latest one that is waiting for me at the post office in the morning.

1821 - 30 Sous/Sueldos - (often attributed to Majorca, which is a island in the Balearic Island archipelago)
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The new piece joins the two other spanish provencial pieces that I picked up this year:

1809 - Tarragona - 5 Pesetas
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1808 - Gerona - 5 Pesetas (1 Duro)
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Comments

  • OchoRealesOchoReales Posts: 1,500 ✭
    Beauty in simplicity! They have my vote!


    Gary
    Lurker since '02. Got the seven year itch!

    Gary
  • Kurt4Kurt4 Posts: 492 ✭✭
    Beautiful to me as well. I've always been attracted to simple straightforward designs.
  • TwoKopeikiTwoKopeiki Posts: 9,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I always liked Palma de Mallorca pieces. Especially the emergency issues of 1821. In 1821, due to an epidemic that kept Palma de Mallorca isolated, it was necessary to coin again. This special currency bears an appropriate legend: SALUS POPULI (for the good of the people, i believe). A few of these coins were minted without the name of the monarch, which sounds funny, having in mind that only two decades earlier a similar error had happened (30 Sous issues here during the invasion of the mainland by Napoleon's troops in 1808).

    8 Reales Madness Collection
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