- The name
macuquina is
known in
Spain and
Spanish America as the type of coin
roughly minted manually with
hammer blows, a
method widely used from the...
- Spain. The
Guipuzcoana Company then
brought in a
large quantity of cobs (
macuquina) from the Lima, PotosÃ, and
Mexico City mints. This cob
coinage remained...
- This
resulted in a crude,
irregular coin
called a cob in
English and
macuquina in Spanish. The
Crown was
entitled to a
fifth of all gold and
silver mined...
-
circulating at the
beginning of the 19th century. Furthermore, old
silver macuquinas (cobs) also
remained in circulation. The
royalists contributed to the...
- took
place in 1857, when a
royal decree ordered the
gathering of
coins (
macuquina).
These arrived to
Puerto Rico in 1813,
originally produced by
Spain in...
-
other Spanish American colonies were in the form of roughly-cut cobs or
macuquinas.
These coins usually bore a
cross on one side and the
Spanish royal coat-of-arms...
- Quito, but
almost a
decade would p****
before one
opened there. Cobs (
macuquina) were
ordered withdrawn in 1826, but
because of the lack of
other coin...
- Americas. In 1536 he
began the
minting of
silver and
copper coins,
known as
macuquinas. Also
under his instructions, the
first printing press in the New World...
-
Mexico and
other Spanish colonies were in the form of roughly-cut cobs or
macuquinas.
These coins usually bore a
cross on one side and the
Spanish royal coat-of-arms...
-
lifting the restriction. The mint
minted gold and
silver coins of the
macuquina type with very
rough workmanship until 1635, when it was
closed by Royal...
