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[[Image:Spain 1778S 8 maravedis SyL 11-09 0538g.jpg|550px|thumb|photo courtesy Soler y Llach]] | [[Image:Spain 1778S 8 maravedis SyL 11-09 0538g.jpg|550px|thumb|photo courtesy Soler y Llach]] | ||
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The [[Spain|Spanish]] mints feature large issues of a variety of copper coins which did not circulate at all in the Spanish American colonies. In the predecimal system which obtained until 1847, 34 maravedis = one real of silver. This eight maravedis was worth 1/34 of a dollar; history does not record the reason for the odd division. This type was struck in Segovia 1772-88 and in Madrid 1770-71 and was accompanied by copper one, [[Spain 1778-Seg 2 maravedis|two]] and [[Spain 1774-Seg 4 maravedis|four maravedis]]. The type is not rare but scarce in nice condition. | The [[Spain|Spanish]] mints feature large issues of a variety of copper coins which did not circulate at all in the Spanish American colonies. In the predecimal system which obtained until 1847, 34 maravedis = one real of silver. This eight maravedis was worth 1/34 of a dollar; history does not record the reason for the odd division. This type was struck in Segovia 1772-88 and in Madrid 1770-71 and was accompanied by copper one, [[Spain 1778-Seg 2 maravedis|two]] and [[Spain 1774-Seg 4 maravedis|four maravedis]]. The type is not rare but scarce in nice condition. | ||
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Revision as of 22:42, 28 September 2024
The Spanish mints feature large issues of a variety of copper coins which did not circulate at all in the Spanish American colonies. In the predecimal system which obtained until 1847, 34 maravedis = one real of silver. This eight maravedis was worth 1/34 of a dollar; history does not record the reason for the odd division. This type was struck in Segovia 1772-88 and in Madrid 1770-71 and was accompanied by copper one, two and four maravedis. The type is not rare but scarce in nice condition.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: copper.
Catalog reference: Cayón-11011, KM 408.2.
- Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
- Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
- Michael, Thomas, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1701-1800, 7th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2016.
- Martí Hervera, Soler y Llach Subastas Internacionales, Subasta Numismática, 5 de Noviembre 2009, Barcelona, 2009.
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