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1/2 Real - Fernando VI arms
| Issuer | Lima Mint (Casa de Moneda de Lima) |
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| Year | 1751-1760 |
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| Currency | Real (1568-1858) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Lima half real of Fernando VI's reign was struck under the old macuquina (cob) tradition at a mint that had been operating since 1568, making it one of the longest-continuously-running mints in the Americas. By the 1750s, Lima was already transitioning pressure toward the new milled coinage technology, and these cob-struck pieces represent the tail end of a production method that colonial administrators had been trying to phase out for decades — partly because the irregular flans made weight fraud endemic and nearly impossible to prosecute.
Fernando VI never visited the Americas. His name appeared on coinage across a hemisphere he knew only through treasury reports.