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| 背面描述 | The quartered royal Arms of Spain, crowned by an imperial crown and flanked by the denomination numeral 1 to the left and the assayer initial S to the right, with the mint mark PP (Potosí) and assayer mark PR visible in the lower field. The ornate shield displays the castles of Castile, the lions of León, the chains of Navarre, and the fleurs-de-lis of the Bourbon house in the centre, all within a beaded border. The surrounding legend reads FELIX · A · D · · OO · Q · Q · OO · R · UTR · OO · Q · Q · NI · E · PR ·, referencing the Spanish realms. |
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Charles IV ascended the Spanish throne in 1788 following the death of his father Charles III, and the Potosí mint — operating at over 13,000 feet in the Bolivian altiplano — was among the first colonial houses to transition its dies to the new king's name. The KM#74 type was struck using the milled "cordoncillo" edge technology that had replaced the old macuquina cob coinage decades earlier, a reform pushed through under Charles III's broader colonial monetary overhaul of the 1770s.
Potosí gold escudos of this period are considerably scarcer than their silver counterparts; the mint's primary output was silver reales fed by the Cerro Rico mines.