2025-M S€10 / 8R Silver, Mint Museum Jewels, 1673, Potosi PR DCAM

The Mint Museum's Jewels collection comprises six coins that reproduce pieces held in the collection of the Museo Casa de la Moneda in Madrid, all of them struck in the Spanish American mints of Potosí, Mexico City, Lima and Guatemala between 1673 and 1780. The series brings together the great trade silver of the Spanish Empire and three gold escudos, including an 8-escudos piece of which the Museum holds the only known example.

Obverse Description

A galano — a hammer-struck piece made with exceptional care on round blanks for silver merchants and their clientele. Arms quartered with castles and lions within a four-lobed frame, crowned, with the Potosí mint mark P and the assayer’s mark E.

Reverse Description

The Pillars of Hercules rising from the waves, with the denomination and the mint.

Source: Real Casa de la Moneda (Spanish Mint)