Coin and bill Production Museum
Colonial mint turned museum, displaying hand-cut gold doubloons tied to an illegal seventeenth-century coining scandal.
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This guide to the Coin and Bill Production Museum in Bogotá takes a hand-cut gold doubloon pulled from the Magdalena River as its starting point, tracing it back to the mint that once stood on this spot. You'll hear how King Philip III sent the engineer Alonso Turrillo de Yebra to build the first royal mint in the New Kingdom of Granada in 1621, and how his license allowed only silver, in small denominations. Listen for what the crown in Spain learned about what he struck instead.
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