A Gallery of Spanish America (New World)  Coins & Medals
Colonial, Revolutionary, Post-revolutionary, &c.

Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España)   ~ 1535-1821 ~

The Viceroyalty of New Spain was created 1535. The territories it ruled included present-day California (Las Californias), Southwestern United States (Santa Fe de Nuevo México), Mexico, Central America (except Panama), Florida (La Florida) and the Caribbean. Jurisdiction also extended to the Spanish East Indies. New Spain was ruled by a viceroy, the head of government was in Mexico City. Between September 16, 1810 (Mexican Independence Day) and September 28, 1821 (Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire) the War of Mexican Independence ebbed and flowed. Mexican-born Spaniards, Mestizos and Amerindians insurgents) sought independence from Spain but finally ended as an unlikely alliance between liberals and conservatives who fought the pro-Spanish Royalists. After three hundred years of Spanish colonization and brutality, Spain lost. This left only Cuba, the Philippine Islands, Guam and Puerto Rico as part of the Spanish empire until the Spanish–American War in 1898. ¡VIVA MÉXICO! Obverse Reverse New Spain, 8 Reales, 1738, Mexico City Mint. KM-115. Milled Pillar type, the fourth type of Spanish colonial silver coin design in the New World, 1732-1772. Obverse Reverse New Spain, 8 Reales, 1818, Zacatecas Mint at what is now, Zacatecas, Mexico. KM-111.5. Royalist Coinage. Milled Bust type, the fifth type of Spanish colonial silver coin design in the New World. 1771-1825.

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