1/2 Real - Fernando VII

Potosí's output during this period was anything but stable. The mint changed hands repeatedly between royalist and patriot forces during the independence wars — falling to the Army of the North in 1810, retaken by royalists in 1811, and oscillating through several more sieges before Sucre's final victory in 1825. Coins struck in Fernando VII's name continued rolling out of the Casa de Moneda regardless of who physically controlled the building, making the issuing authority on any given piece a matter of which army held the courtyard that month.