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1 Real - Carlos IV
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Mint of Spain) |
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| Year | 1788-1808 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned quartered shield displaying the arms of Castile (castles) and León (lions), the traditional heraldic device of the Spanish monarchy. The crowned coat of arms is flanked to the left by the mintmark and assayer's initials, and to the right by the denomination numeral and additional assayer's initials. The encircling Latin legend HISPANIARUM·REX reads around the upper periphery, identifying the monarch as King of the Spains. The entire design is enclosed within a fine toothed border consistent with the milled production of the series. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlos IV inherited the Spanish throne in December 1788, the same year this series began — and his reign unraveled badly. The French Revolutionary Wars, the brief and humiliating Peace of Basel in 1795, and ultimately Napoleon's forced abdications at Bayonne in 1808 compressed two decades of imperial decline into a single coin type. Colonial mints in Mexico City, Lima, Potosí, and Santiago struck their own versions simultaneously, each with distinct assayer marks, making this a type that spans an entire hemisphere in production geography.
The Madrid mint's output dropped sharply after 1805 as silver shipments from the Americas grew increasingly disrupted by British naval dominance following Trafalgar.