4 sources healthy · latest episode 9 Nov 2026
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Initially, Spanish gold and silver flowed east to the treasuries of Charles V and his son Philip II.

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“the gold silver was all going east,”
“as you say, into the coffers of King Philip V,”
“King Charles V and his son,”
“King Philip II,”
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