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1 Escudo - Carlos III
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Colombia |
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| Year | 1763-1771 |
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| Value | 1 Escudo (16) |
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| Obverse description | Armored and draped bust of King Carlos III facing right, rendered in the Baroque portrait style characteristic of Spanish Colonial milled coinage. The king's hair is elaborately dressed in a queue tied with a ribbon, with curled locks above the ear. The royal effigy is centrally positioned in the field, with the mint date 1767 appearing in the exergue below the truncation. The encircling Latin legend reads CAR·III·D·G·HISP·ET·IND·R, proclaiming Carlos III by the Grace of God King of Spain and the Indies. |
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| Mintage | 1763 NR JV - Hernández#678 - 1767 NR JV - Hernández#678 - 1771 NR JV - Hernández#679 - |
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Carlos III's reign saw the Santa Fe de Bogotá mint operating under considerable administrative pressure from Madrid, which was restructuring colonial minting operations across the Americas following the Seven Years' War. The escudo series of this period is complicated by assayer transitions — the KM#42 grouping spans multiple assayer marks, and Hernández's tighter split into #678–679 reflects documented differences in die workmanship that casual inspection can miss.
The Bogotá mint was chronically understaffed relative to its output demands throughout the 1760s, a condition that occasionally shows in planchet preparation rather than the striking itself.