Free Book on Old World Spanish Minting Practices

[divewrecks]

Well worth the ~6 meg download to add this to your library. On-line book written in Spanish on old world minting practices, but with great pictures of coin making tools and equipment.

http://www.camaradesegovia.es/images...dio%20Ceca.pdf

Stan

[mad4wrecks]

Great link Stan. Thanks for posting.

[aquanut]

Stan, My two years of High School Spanish won't get me through this. Is there a translation?
John

[divewrecks]

Two years? I think we were only made to take one quarter and I barely passed!

Anyway, enjoy the pictures as I did. In this case a picture is worth 1000 words (or more). You can probably use an on-line translator like Babblefish for small blocks of text that appear to be of interest.

Stan

[cuzcosquirrel]

On page 44 is one of those master die blocks I talked about in a post last year, from which they would make the die punches. Then they show a punch box where they would keep and draw out punches that sort of looks like an old typeset box.

[Native1858]

Superb find! Thanks.