Author : James Carson Brevoort
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267242733
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)
Book Synopsis Early Spanish and Portuguese Coinage in America (Classic Reprint) by : James Carson Brevoort
Download or read book Early Spanish and Portuguese Coinage in America (Classic Reprint) written by James Carson Brevoort and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Spanish and Portuguese Coinage in America Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, Vol. I, p. 614, gives a rather confused account of the successive coinages in Mexico. He describes the ingots, quoit-shaped plates and gold-dust, used in exchanges, and how the Indians, unable to weigh or determine the value of the metal, were defrauded. Copper coins were then struck of four types, cuartos, half-cuartos, four and two maravedis, but the date of their issue is not given. The author says that this coinage was similar to one in use in Spain and in the Island of San Domingo. The Mexican copper coins were so distasteful to the natives that no ordinance could keep them in circulation, and they were tossed into the lake; two hundred thousand pesos worth of copper being thus lost in one year. That so much Copper should have been coined is improbable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.