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Fray Marcos de Niza 400 year celebration Wooden Rectangular Nickel.

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Fray Marcos de Niza 400 year celebration Wooden Rectangular Nickel.
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1.25 x 4". Lot of three. Numbers 3705, 3708, 4396. For the celebration of Niza's foray into Arizona in 1539. Held in Tucson, Arizona on April 28, 29 & 30, 1939. I Marcos de Niza, byname Fray Marcos, (born c. 1495, Nice, Savoy [now in France]—died March 25, 1558, Mexico), Franciscan friar who claimed to have sighted the legendary “Seven Golden Cities of Cibola” in what is now western New Mexico. Niza went to the Americas in 1531 and served in Peru, Guatemala, and Mexico. At Culiacán, Mex., he freed Indian slaves from regions to the north. Under orders from the viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, Niza and a Moor, Estéban (Estevanico), led an expedition across the desert to the cities of Cibola (1539). Estéban was killed; Niza claimed to have come within sight of large towns rich in precious stones, gold, and silver. The exaggerated promise of wealth stimulated interest in the further exploration of northern New Spain, but the following year soldiers with the Francisco de Coronado expedition found the “seven cities” to be small and poor Indian pueblos. Niza became provincial of his order for Mexico in 1541. [wikipedia] HWAC# 60940 Date: 1939 Location: Arizona