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1/2 Real - Fernando VII second type
| Issuer | Lima Mint |
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| Year | 1811-1821 |
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| Value | 1/2 Real |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The crowned Bourbon royal coat of arms, quartered with the castles of Castile and lions of León, with the central escutcheon of the French royal house, flanked on either side by the Pillars of Hercules with scrolling banners. The mint mark (LIMAE) and assayer initials (JP) appear in the legend, which reads HISPAN ET IND R around the circumference. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner border with a milled edge. |
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Fernando VII never set foot in the Americas, yet his portrait continued to appear on Lima's coinage for over a decade while he sat imprisoned in France — first under Napoleon's arrangement at Valençay, then restored to the Spanish throne in 1814. The Lima Mint kept striking in his name throughout the entire independence struggle in Peru, which didn't formally conclude until 1821, making the later dates of this type genuinely transitional objects: royalist coinage produced as the royalist cause collapsed.
The "second type" designation distinguishes this from the earlier bust portrait issues, reflecting a revised design directive from Madrid that reached colonial mints at different times, accounting for some date overlap between types at Lima specifically.