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Spanish 8 reales silver coin countermarked as 5 shillings. Minted in the Mexico City mint, AD 1782. Countermarked by the Ballindalloch Cotton Works, Elgin, Scotland, around 1800. Silver coins from the New World were sometimes used, as this silver coin from Mexico shows. As trade expanded with the growth of the British Empire into the Americas as well as Asia, so foreign coin was imported into Britain. This silver coin has been stamped with the local mark of a Scottish cotton works to indicate its value and its issuer. Diam. 40 mm. Inv. CM 1996,1001.3.

Location British Museum/London/Great Britain

Unique Identifier ART414908

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 500px × 229px

Photo Credit © The Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, NY

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18th century CE

Colonial, Mexican

Mexico City, D.F., Mexico