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Let me tell you about your coin. Excuse my English, I am translating with Google Translate On June 7, 1846, a coup d'état took place in Costa Rica. To give the coup legitimacy, a new Constitutio… (View Post)

The coins of 1847, as well as similarly designed issues of 1849 and 1850, were popularly nicknamed mariquitas (ladybugs). Despite the fact that in the Minting Decree itself the girl is called an Indi… (View Post)

I think there are a number of problems here. Of course, the dies were made of bad metal. This problem remained when they started minting boliviano coins later. But perhaps the main reason for the fre… (View Post)

In this case, the word PESO is not the name of a monetary unit (like the word dollar), but the word WEIGHT (WEIGHT OF 400 GRAINS). This word was also minted on other coins of small denominations (the… (View Post)

According to the book by Prado Robles, G. (2001) "Effects of the economic development of the coin in Bolivia, 1830-1870" in 1859, 68,701 coins were minted. As I understand it, this number i… (View Post)