VENEZUELA 1567-1967 ☆
PURE SILVER MEDAL☆
NGC PF-65 ULTRA CAMEO ☆ SCARCE, MAGNIFICENT
THIS MEDAL US MUCH NICER THEN THE PICTURES AND A VERY GOOD PRICE.
On 25 July 1567, Captain Diego de Losada laid the foundations of the city of Santiago de León de Caracas. De Losada had been commissioned to capture the valley, and was successful by splitting the natives into different groups to work with, then fighting and defeating each of them.
Diego de Losada y Cabeza de Vaca (1511 – 1569) was a Spanish Conquistador and the founder of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, the capital of Caracas of Venezuela.
Losada was born in Rio Negro del Puente, in what is now the province of Zamora. He reached Puerto Rico in 1533.
Losada founded Caracas in 1567 after defeating Tamanaco, the Mariche chief. He died two years later, at Borburata.