1850 Spanish 8 Maravedis - Great Detail, Holed - Isabel II of Spain - Copper - Spain Isabel II Coin - Eight Maravedis 1850

This listing is for the photographed 1850 Spanish 8 Maravedis. Great Detail. It is rare to see one with this remaining originality.

The maravedi was the name of various kinds of Iberian coins minted in gold and then silver between the 11th and 14th centuries and the name of different Iberian accounting units between the 11th and 19th centuries.

After Spain's discovery of the Americas, copper maravedis, along with silver reales, were the first coins struck in Spain for the purpose of circulation in the New World colonies. These coins, minted with a special design for specific use of the Americas, were first coined in Seville in 1505 for shipment to the colonial island of Hispaniola the following year, thus giving these coins their distinction as the first coins for the New World.