[Gocamino] Santiago coins

[Robert Spenger]

For those who are traveling through Bilbao and have an interest in 
coins, I ran across a coin dealer in the enclosed market place in the 
casco viejo section of Bilboa when I went through there in 2002. At the 
time, I purchased one of the 100 peseta Santiago coins and a set of 
uncirculated issues of the Spanish version of the new (i.e. Euro) 
coinage. He may have had the 2000 peseta coin as well, I don't remember 
now. If he did, I probably felt that it was too expensive to get that 
early in my trip.

regards,

Bob S.

On Mar 19, 2005, at 10:59 AM, blaroli at aol.com wrote:

Hello you all,
Kat Gower told me sometime ago about a 100 pesetas coin that was issued 
in 1993 commemorating the Xacobean year.  While Santiago did not have 
it, Seville,a much larger city, has many numismatic and philathelic 
stores, and, in one of them, I found the coin.  (Kat, I got one for 
you).
In 1993, 100 pesetas were worth about 60 cents.  The coin is quite 
pretty, slightly smaller than a quarter,  made of copper´bronze with 
the Santiago shell surrounded by the ¨field of stars¨.
Because 1999 would be the last Xacobean Holy Year within which pesetas 
would be used, the Spanish government went all the way out and issued a 
2,000 pesetas silver coin which is quite beautiful.  It is about made 
of silver, about the size of a silver US dollar, and it has Santiago as 
a pilgrim with all the accutrements, engraved on it. I think it is 
absolutely beautiful.
While, I was told, the silver one may be hard to find, and is 
relatively expensive, the 100 pesetas one apparently is available.  It 
costs 6 Euros.
I thought I´d let you know..... as I would have wanted a fellow pilgrim 
to tell me about such things. (Thank you for telling me, Kat,.... I 
would not have know about it otherwise).
Rosina
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