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05-03-2016, 11:47 PM | #1 | |
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May 4th, 2016: casa de la moneda
When Spain was pillaging South America, they sent shiploads of silver back to Spain.
The silver ore was refined and silver cast into ingots. Then somebody said we’ve plenty of slave labor to convert the ingots into coins, the real de a ocho, or Spanish Dollar, and just ship them. If they’d listened to the wind they might of heard a hundred pirates chanting do it, do it, do it, as ingots were unknown quality, but real de a ocho, or more often a piece of the eight, were common currency everywhere. Actually it was the most common(trusted) currency in the US until the 1790s. Quote:
The Dude in charge of the operation from 1569 to 1581 was the King’s Viceroy, Francisco de Toledo, Count of Oropesa. Personally I think the Viceroy was skimming because I stayed in his house for a couple weeks. Not in South America, his castle in Oropesa, Toledo(Castile-La Mancha), Spain, which is now a 4.4 star Parador(fancy hotel). This is a slave/animal drive system............................. and a coin stamping machine. I haven't checked to see how many of these coins were shipped to Spain, or what percentage actually got there but I know it was many, many shiploads.
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