Contents


WILLIAM L. BISCHOFF (New York City)
Introduction

FREEMAN CRAIG, JR. (Mill Valley, California)
Coinage of the Viceroyalty of El Perú — an Overview

ADON A. AND JEANNE P. GORDUS
(Ann Arbor, Michigan)
Identification of Potosí Silver Usage
in Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century European Coinage
through Gold-lmpurity Content of Coins

EDUARDO DARGENT CHAMOT (Lima, Peru)
The Early Lima Mint (1568-1572)

ARNALDO J. CUNIETTI-FERRANDO (Buenos Aires)
Documentary Evidence Regarding the La Plata Mint
and the First Issues of Potosí

K.A. DYM (The Hague)
The First Assayers at Potosí

FRANK SEDWICK (Cove Trail, Florida)
The Gold Cobs of Peru, 1696-1750

BARRY W. STALLARD (Livermore, California)
The Enigmatic Sixteenth-Century AP Coins:
Issues of a Peruvian Mint in Alto Peru?

JOSEPH R. LASSER (Scarsdale, New York)
The Silver Cobs of Colombia, 1622-1748

GLENN S. MURRAY (Segovia, Spain)
Mechanization of the Peruvian Mints:
Problems of Implementation

ROBERT D. LEONARD JR. (Winnetka, Illinois)
The "Large Crown" Counterstamp on Peruvian
2 Reales: A Guatemalan Issue of 1663

WILLIAM B. CHRISTENSEN (Madison, New Jersey)
The Pattern Coinage of Independent Peru

H.P. FLATT (Saratoga, California)
Moneda Feble in Peru, 1830-1867

RICHARD G. DOTY (Washington, DC)
Nationhood through Numismatics:
Latin American Proclamation Pieces

GEORGE LILL III (Morton Grove, Illinois)
A Preliminary Study of the Possible Production
Outside the Potosí Mint of Bolivian Mules, Pieforts, and Uniface Examples of the "Monedas Especiales" Series