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1/2 Escudo - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1814-1820 |
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| Value | 1/2 Escudo (8) |
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| Obverse lettering | FERD•VII•D•G•HISP•ETIND•R •1814• (Translation: Fernando 7th by the grace of God King of Spain and the Indies) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fernando VII never set foot in Mexico, yet his portrait appeared on its coinage throughout a reign defined by his imprisonment under Napoleon and his subsequent restoration to a throne he managed with spectacular incompetence. The Mexico City mint continued striking his image even as the independence movement tore the colony apart — royalist coinage produced in a city that would belong to a republic within two years of the final date in this series.
The Chihuahua and Durango emergency mints struck their own fractional gold during this same window, making the Mexico City pieces the refined counterparts to some genuinely crude provincial issues.