The name macuquina is known in Spain and Spanish America as the type of coin roughly minted manually with hammer blows, a method widely used from the...

Spain. The Guipuzcoana Company then brought in a large quantity of cobs (macuquina) from the Lima, Potosí, and Mexico City mints. This cob coinage remained...

This resulted in a crude, irregular coin called a cob in English and macuquina in Spanish. The Crown was entitled to a fifth of all gold and silver mined...

circulating at the beginning of the 19th century. Furthermore, old silver macuquinas (cobs) also remained in circulation. The royalists contributed to the...

other Spanish American colonies were in the form of roughly-cut cobs or macuquinas. These coins usually bore a cross on one side and the Spanish royal coat-of-arms...

Quito, but almost a decade would pass before one opened there. Cobs (macuquina) were ordered withdrawn in 1826, but because of the lack of other coin...

took place in 1857, when a royal decree ordered the gathering of coins (macuquina). These arrived to Puerto Rico in 1813, originally produced by Spain in...

Americas. In 1536 he began the minting of silver and copper coins, known as macuquinas. Also under his instructions, the first printing press in the New World...

Mexico and other Spanish colonies were in the form of roughly-cut cobs or macuquinas. These coins usually bore a cross on one side and the Spanish royal coat-of-arms...

lifting the restriction. The mint minted gold and silver coins of the macuquina type with very rough workmanship until 1635, when it was closed by Royal...

to Spain in the form of ingots or of crude, temporary coins (known as macuquinas in Spanish and as "cobs" in English). Ingots and cobs were a way to account...

the museum had 1,032 pieces, including 400 two-escudo gold Santa Fereña macuquinas, minted between 1628 and 1636, found in the Magdalena River and known...

centuries. The first coins brought over were odd-shaped silver cobs called macuquinas or hilis-kalamay. They were then succeeded starting 1726 by the famous...