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List of most expensive coins Price Year Type Grade Issuing country Provenance Firm Date of sale $18,900,000 1933 1933 double eagle: MS-65 CAC United States: King Farouk of Egypt: Sotheby's [1] June 8, 2021 $12,000,000 1794 Flowing Hair dollar: SP-66 CAC United States Neil, Carter Private sale [2] January 24, 2013 $9,360,000 1787 Brasher ...
Denominations: 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, and 3 reales. (These coins are rare; perhaps only 300—400 specimens survive.) The 2 and 3-real coins were confused because of their similar size, so the 3 reales was discontinued in 1537. The 1 ⁄ 4 real was unpopular because of its small size; it was not minted after 1540.
"Piloncitos" is a collectors' term for the bead-like gold masa coins [1] [2] used during the aristocratic era of the Philippines and in the early years of Spanish foreign rule, [1] called bulawan ("gold piece") in many Philippine languages or salapi ("coin") or ginto ("gold piece") in Tagalog.
In 1972 the first country to issue a circulating nine-sided coin was Thailand with a 1972 regular 5 baht coin, [31] followed by Kenya in 1973 with a special issue 5/= coin. The third and final circulating nonagonal coin issued in the 20th century and is the regular 1976 50 cent coin from Tuvalu. [ 32 ]
Most issued silver coins in denominations of 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 reales and gold coins for 1 ⁄ 2, 1, 2, 4 and 8 escudos. Exceptions were the Santo Domingo mint, which did strike maravedíes in the sixteenth century and the Caracas mint which issued fraction of real copper coins in the early nineteenth century to facilitate commerce.
Rapper and producer MF DOOM sampled the song "Na Boca Do Sol" on the track "Orris Root Powder" in 2005. [8] Hip-hop group Little Brother sampled Caboclo on the song "We Got Now" from their 2005 album The Minstrel Show. Original copies of the LP have become highly sought after among fans and vinyl collectors since the album's resurgence.
The sol, later sol de oro (English: gold sol), was the currency of Peru between 1863 and 1985. It had the ISO 4217 currency code PES. It was subdivided into 10 dineros or 100 centavos. It also had two different superunits over its circulation life, the inca (1881–1882) and later the gold pound (1898–1931, abbreviated Lp.), both worth 10 soles.
Spanish euro coins feature three different designs for each of the three series of coins. The minor series of 1, 2, and 5 cent coins were designed by Garcilaso Rollán, the middle series of 10, 20, and 50 cent coins by Begoña Castellanos, and the two major coins feature the portrait of King Felipe VI of Spain .