Mr. Tat
Tenderfoot
Atotonilco el Grande.
As President Santa Anna ordered that all copper coins from entering Mexico City were reviewed to search for counterfeit, the problem was so serious that a consignment of 700 pesos only 9 were legitimate, this meant that no one would accept the coin copper, or traders or employees, so it was virtually worthless and out of circulation.
It caused very serious damage in the villages, as many lost their meager savings in a moment, and even allowing some chests just accepted them to buy a piece of bread.
By that time thought that the people of the Great Atotonilco gathered all the available copper coin, organized a procession, headed to a river near where the cast and the church bells played with joy because they got rid of this useless coin.
It took the government of Santa Anna to find a solution, and finally decided to coin a new currency for copper these were exchanged for their value. But the damage was done, and some who knew (circle of Santa Anna obviously) far ahead of time, people took advantage and bought the alleged worthless copper coin for a very small fraction of their value, and then exchange the government at face value and get a huge profit. Large numbers of hungry people swarmed the courts of the churches to beg for something to feed their children, any scenes that we split the soul.
Anyway, the topic was on the coins thrown into the river in Atotonilco el Grande, which had to be several kilos to do so much fuss, and I imagine that they were thrown on the shore. Perhaps some or many here still have to revisit some old map of this town, and check the river at that time to locate points more likely, for example the widest site of the river, closest to the people, crossing a bridge site, etc. It would be strange that today are under the street or in the courtyard of a house.
As President Santa Anna ordered that all copper coins from entering Mexico City were reviewed to search for counterfeit, the problem was so serious that a consignment of 700 pesos only 9 were legitimate, this meant that no one would accept the coin copper, or traders or employees, so it was virtually worthless and out of circulation.
It caused very serious damage in the villages, as many lost their meager savings in a moment, and even allowing some chests just accepted them to buy a piece of bread.
By that time thought that the people of the Great Atotonilco gathered all the available copper coin, organized a procession, headed to a river near where the cast and the church bells played with joy because they got rid of this useless coin.
It took the government of Santa Anna to find a solution, and finally decided to coin a new currency for copper these were exchanged for their value. But the damage was done, and some who knew (circle of Santa Anna obviously) far ahead of time, people took advantage and bought the alleged worthless copper coin for a very small fraction of their value, and then exchange the government at face value and get a huge profit. Large numbers of hungry people swarmed the courts of the churches to beg for something to feed their children, any scenes that we split the soul.
Anyway, the topic was on the coins thrown into the river in Atotonilco el Grande, which had to be several kilos to do so much fuss, and I imagine that they were thrown on the shore. Perhaps some or many here still have to revisit some old map of this town, and check the river at that time to locate points more likely, for example the widest site of the river, closest to the people, crossing a bridge site, etc. It would be strange that today are under the street or in the courtyard of a house.
