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1/2 Escudo - Fernando VI Madrid, 2nd type
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint of Spain) |
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| Year | 1748-1759 |
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| Value | 1/2 Escudo (8) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed, draped bust of King Ferdinand VI facing right, rendered in the Baroque portrait style characteristic of mid-18th-century Spanish coinage. The king's hair is styled in an elaborate curled periwig falling to the shoulder, with fine detail in the locks. The circular Latin legend reads FERDINAN · VI · D · G · separated by small rosette stops, running from the lower left around the upper periphery. The mint date appears prominently in the lower field below the effigy. The entire design is contained within a finely beaded inner border. |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINAN · VI · D · G · 1752 |
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Fernando VI never visited the Americas and showed little personal interest in colonial administration, but his reign produced a sweeping monetary reform — the 1728 *Nueva Planta* recoinage had already standardized the milled coinage system his father Felipe V introduced, and Fernando's treasury simply refined it further. The Madrid mint's half escudo of this period is one of the smallest gold coins in regular Bourbon production, struck in quantities that reflected Madrid's secondary status to Seville and the colonial mints for gold output.
The "2nd type" designation marks a die modification introduced partway through the reign. Cal#244 distinguishes it from the earlier Madrid striking, though the two types are frequently conflated in older collection records.