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and substantial sums of money to his two children at the time of their marriages. A granddaughter was born the same year of 1858 – he already had a grandson – and he must have realised it would be sensible to sort out a safe permanent home for his collection in his lifetime (he was not to know he would live another sixteen years). It must have seemed a good solution for the bulk of his collection to find a home with, and complement significantly, the best coin collection in Spain.
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Joaquín's collecting did not cease with the transfer of over 8000 coins to Madrid, however. The 1871 Cádiz Guide says that Joaquín's private coin collection, ‘despite having enriched with some excellent pieces the
National Museum and the Museum of the Academy of History’, continues to contain a good
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Joaquín had doubtless been giving thought to the future of his coin collection. There is nothing to indicate that either of his children, both married by now, shared his passion for coins. 1858 was the year he reached the age of 70, and wrote his Will, in which he explains he has already given equal
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in Madrid. Over 8000 coins from the ‘Rubio collection’ were transferred there during Joaquín's own lifetime. There was interest in acquiring the collection for the
Spanish nation in the 1850s, and discussion as to whether it should go to the National Museum or the Museum of the Royal Academy of
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with an appendix on the coins of Cádiz written by Joaquín Rubio. The letters make it clear the two men were good friends and that
Gallardo also knew Joaquín’s son, Joaquín Rubio Bosichy, who was a law student in the mid-1840s at the Universidad Central, as the
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By profession, Joaquín was a lawyer. He came from a family of lawyers – his father, brother and son were all also lawyers. The legal posts Joaquín held were as follows:
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in 1986. Amongst other things they refer to the publication in 1845, by the Cádiz city council , of a late 16th-century
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assortment which is ‘still increasing’! By then he was 83; he lived until 30 November 1874, dying at the age of 86, in the city in which he had spent his whole life.
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