[Gocamino] Santiago coins

[blaroli at aol.com]

 Hello you all,
The 1993 Camino de Santiago 100 peseta coins are available, nd I can get them for those of you who may want them.  They cost 6 Euros each.
While the silver 1999 Santiago  2,000 pesetas coins went into regular circulation  apparently, and understandably, no one spent them and they disappeared. from view.  I can get 4 (four) from a numastic dealer that has them.  They cost 30 Euros each.  They are very beautiful, in my view. They have an engraved Santiago as a pilgrim, and while the coins are shiny, they have a dull oval space on top which shows either "99", and when, tilted, the Botafumeiro. Consequently, the Botafumeiro appeares to be swaying.
Let me know.
Warm regards from gorgeous jumpity-jump Sevilla.
Rosina
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Gower <kathygower at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 21:39:18 +0000
Subject: Re: [Gocamino] Santiago coins


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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