Following Spain’s arrival to the Americas, the kingdom began minting copper Maravedis in the early 1500s specifically for distribution among its colonies. By the discovery’s minting in 1661, Spain was ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...

Centuries-old coins, believed to be part of a $17 billion treasure trove on the shipwreck of the Spanish galleon ship San ...

The treasure was being transported from Peru to Spain to fund the War of the Spanish Succession against Britain and its allies. Gold and silver coins, pearls and gems, claimed to be worth as much as ...

What’s the connection between the Spanish peso and the dollar sign? From the 16th and 18th centuries, a Spanish silver coin known as a “real” was the currency of reference for world trade.

This stamped coin, issued by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, was minted in Seville at around the time of Columbus and found in Sark in 2005. The good quality of its silver made Spanish coinage ...

John Burnham was known for melting down Spanish silver coins and turning them into silverware. His “Maker’s Mark” was his first initial and last name. Recently, the historical society received a ...

200 silver coins, a flintlock and rare vase are latest treasures pulled off fleet of shipwrecks that off Florida’s coast in 1715. Coins, flintlock found on 1715 shipwreck, Florida team says ...

Experts have confirmed that dozens of gold coins scattered across the ocean floor off the coast of Colombia belonged to the San José, an ill-fated Spanish treasure galleon that sank over 300 ...

Considered the Holy Grail of all shipwrecks, the Spanish galleon San Jose blew up and sank in 1708 at the hands of British cannons, and it took with it what experts have estimated to be $17 billion in ...

From the 16th and 18th centuries, a Spanish silver coin known as a “real” was the currency of reference for world trade. During this time, ...