NEW BOOK: POTOSI AND LIMA SPANISH COLONIAL COINS

Guía de las cantidades acuñadas, Cecas de Potosí y Lima, una síntesis y conversión matemática del trabajo de Carlos Lazo García, con sección especial galanos. En memoria de Carlos Lazo García.

Asociación Amigos de la Casa de Moneda de Segovia  (Friends of the Segovia Mint) has published (in Spanish) Glenn Murray's new book as a guide to coin quantities struck at the Spanish Colonial mints of Potosí (Bolivia) and Lima (Peru).

While the book is in Spanish it is very usable even for those who don't read Spanish. The plentiful use of tables (over 75 pages have data tables) and hundreds of color photos makes a valuable ready reference for dates, mints, assayers and quantities struck. For example, on p. 126 we find that in 1713 Lima produced 40,325 eight escudos but only 447 four escudos indicating a relative rarity of 90:1.

A 56 page section on galanos (those special cob coins called "Royals") and Hearts makes this book indispensable for any collector or aficionado of the so called "royals."

Title: Guía de las cantidades acuñadas, Cecas de Potosí y Lima…
Author: Glenn Murray
Paperback: 294 pages
Publisher: Friends of the Segovia Mint (2016)
Language: Spanish
Product Dimensions: 150 × 210 mm [5-7/8 × 8-1/4 inch]
Net Weight: 720 grams (1.6 pounds)

For more information, or to order, see:

Book Review of Murray's Potosí and Lima
http://macuquina.com/articles/Book%20Review%20Murray%20
Cecas%20de%20Potosi%20and%20Lima.pdf

For related article on the so-called Royals and galanos see Blanton's article "The Royal Misnomer for Spanish American Cobs" in the September/October 2018 NI Bulletin.
http://macuquina.com/articles/Royal%20Misnomer%20
from%20NIB%20v53%20nos%209%2010.pdf

To order for delivery within the USA (limited availability) contact Herman Blanton at  hblanton@yahoo.com.

For more information on the Segovia Mint, see:
http://www.segoviamint.org/Eng-start.htm

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