Spain’s Footprint on U.S. Coins

Anyone who has done a bit of looking into the history of the U.S. right at the time we declared our independence knows that one thing that just wasn’t in place for the 13 colonies, then states, was any form of monetary system. Our Congress didn’t even get around to authorizing a Mint until the 1790s, more than 15 years after our famous declaration of independence. Yet business is business, time is money, a penny saved is a penny earned and a host of other such sayings means that somehow commerce