1504-1516 relates to the reign of Juana I of Aragon who is the sovereign on this coin alongside Carlos I who was her son. Juana was the daughter of Fernando and Isabel who bankrolled Columbus' discovery of the New World and she ascended the throne of Castile in 1504 when her mother Isabel died. Juana's husband was Felipe I of Castile, the first Hapsburg King of Spain, but Philip died in 1506. When Isabel died, Fernando, Juana's father had Juana declared insane in early 1505 and while Juana was still the monarch, Fernando ruled as Juana's regent until his death in 1516.
While we cannot see the assayers initials on the shield side of the coin here, we know that Calico-143 had the initials L-M on the shield side. We know that this was assayer L, Luis Rodriguez, who was active during two separate periods as assayer of the Mexico City Mint, but this coins can be attributed to the period between 1547-1553. He was an assayer in the 'Late Series' of coins which is confirmed by the presence of waves by the base of the Pillars of Hercules.
Today, I think that the dates of the time when the assayer was at work are used to indicate the period when the coin was produced, but on this label, the dates of the reign of one of the sovereigns named on the coin was used. I think references have evolved since this label was printed.
IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS
THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
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08/29/2025 02:06 am
Posted 03/16/2012 4:39 pm
. So the "Bogus" flag is flying on this one? The date do not look right.
