[Gocamino] Santiago coins

[Kathy Gower]

I loved the coins and used them for gifts but alas they're all 
gone...(Thanks, Rosina, for finding them again)

another souvenir of the Camino is music, and there's a couple of great 
articles on Camino music by Eldor Pederson at:

www.americanpilgrims.com

enjoy!

From: Robert Spenger <rspenger at earthlink.net>
To: gocamino at oakapple.net, saintjames at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Santiago coins
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:34:28 -0800

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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