2025-M S€10 / 8R Silver, Mint Museum Jewels, 1737, Mexico City 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

The columnario — the Spanish dollar, the most important coin of its time and the standard for trade worldwide. Crowned royal arms quartered with castles and lions around the Bourbon escutcheon, with the assayers’ marks and the legend of Philip V.

Reverse Description

The Pillars of Hercules over the waves flanking two crowned hemispheres, with the motto VTRAQVE VNVM.

Source: Real Casa de la Moneda (Spanish Mint)