The Coinage of El Peru: No. 5 (Coinage of the Americas Conference Proceedings) - Tapa dura

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A collection of papers from the Coinage of the Americas Conference (COAC) held in 1988. Contents: Coinage of the Viceroyalty of El Peru-an Overview, Identification of Potosi Silver Usage in Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century European Coinage through Gold-Impurity Content of Coins, The Early Lima Mint (1568-1572), The First Assayers at Potosi, The Gold Cobs of Peru 1696-1750, The Enigmatic Sixteenth-Century AP Coins: Issues of a Peruvian Mint in Alto Peru, The Silver Cobs of Colombia 1622-1748, Mechanization of the Peruvian Mints: Problems of Implementation, The "Large Crown" Counterstampon Peruvian 2 Reales: A Guatemalan Issue of 1663, The Pattern of Coinage of Independent Peru 1830-1867, Nationhood through Numismatics: Latin American Proclamation Pieces, and A Preliminary Study of the Possible Production Outside the Potosi Mint of Bolivian Mules, Pieforts and Uniface Examplesof the "Monedas Especiales" Series.