2025-M S€10 / 8R Silver, Mint Museum Jewels, 1772, 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

One of the first pieces of eight struck after the monetary reform of 1771, which brought the royal portrait to Spanish coinage: the bust of Charles III in heroic drapery and laurel wreath.

Reverse Description

Crowned arms quartered with castles and lions, flanked by the Pillars of Hercules. Mexico City mint, with the marks of assayers Manuel de la Rivera and Francisco Antonio de la Peña.

Source: Real Casa de la Moneda (Spanish Mint)