Buy Peruvian Gold Coins – Ancient Gold Tradition, Colonial Mint Heritage

Peru contributes 1 gold product at CelticGold – a single specialist piece from one of history's most gold-rich nations. Peru was the centre of Inca civilisation – a culture that venerated gold as the "sweat of the sun" – and later the site of some of the most productive colonial silver and gold mining in Spanish America. The Casa Nacional de Moneda de Lima (founded 1565) is one of the oldest mints in the Americas.

History – Inca Gold and the Spanish Colonial Mint

The Inca Empire's gold tradition was legendary: Temple of the Sun (Coricancha) in Cusco was lined entirely with gold plates; Inca rulers were buried with enormous quantities of gold objects. The Spanish conquest (1532–1572) systematically transferred this wealth to Europe – and then established the Lima Mint in 1565 to coin the silver and gold from the mines of Potosí, Cerro de Pasco and Huancavelica.

Peruvian gold coins from the republican era carry significant historical value as products of one of the world's oldest colonial minting institutions.

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