1781 El Cazador 8 REALES Silver Treasure Coin,NGC Certified,,High grade.01 Auct
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1781 SPANISH 8 REALES Silver Cazador Shipwreck Coin.NGC Certified.Good detail.Difficult year to find. The El Cazadore Wreck Coins are coming to an end this spring. This coin was used as the first U.S.Dollar and as a model for the U.S. dollar. France, Spain and England ventured on long voyages to expand their empires from the 1600's to the 1800’s and established colonies outside of their homelands. One of the ways to keep the new colony under control for the mother country was to command its currency. Usually the monarch or some other symbol of power from the initial country would be minted on these coins. The coins would also bear symbols and other devices that would tie the coin to that colony. The money would have some kind of fixed exchange rate with the mother country. Another way to keep the colony in line was to make the currency worth less than the money from the main country. No country was more successful in colonial coinage than Spain. Their colonial coins are easy to identify; they used the Pillars of Hercules and the crest of the ruling family on many of the colonial coins. Their coins had the richest content of precious metals of all the worlds' coins during the colonial period. There were twelve Spanish colonial mints: Mexico, Santo Domingo, Lima, La Plata, Potosi, Panama, Cartagena, Bogotá, Cuzco, Guatemala, Santiago,
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