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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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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned shield displaying the quartered arms of Castile and León, surrounded by the collar and badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece. The crowned escutcheon is rendered in fine detail consistent with Spanish colonial heraldic convention. The Mexico City mint mark (Mo) appears to the left of the shield, and the assayer's initials (JJ) appear to the right. The entire device is contained within a circular field bordered by a fine toothed rim. |
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| Reverse lettering | Mo JJ (Translation: Mexico City JJ) |
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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.