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1 Real - Ferdinand VII
| Issuer | Santo Domingo (1492-1821) |
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| Year | 1810-1820 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Obverse description | Draped and armored bust of Ferdinand VII facing right, occupying the central field, flanked by the initial 'F' to the left and the numeral '7' to the right, identifying the monarch. The portrait is rendered in a crude, primitive style characteristic of the emergency cob-type coinage produced in Santo Domingo during the early nineteenth century. The coin exhibits an irregular flan with a milled edge, and the overall strike is uneven, reflecting the hand-hammered production technique. |
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| Reverse description | Crowned quartered shield of the Spanish royal arms occupying the central field, with the denomination indicator 'R' visible to the right of the shield. The quarters display the castles of Castile and the lions of León in alternating arrangement, with a central roundel. The crown surmounting the shield is depicted in a simplified, stylized form consistent with the primitive engraving standards of this colonial emergency issue. The overall design is characteristically crude and the strike uneven due to the hand-hammered cob technique employed at the Santo Domingo mint. |
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Santo Domingo's billon coinage of this period emerged from a colonial administration clinging to Spanish loyalty while neighboring Saint-Domingue had already become Haiti. The eastern third of Hispaniola briefly reverted to French control in 1795 under the Treaty of Basel, then back to Spain in 1809 — this issue postdates that reconquest, struck under a crown that was itself occupied by Napoleonic forces. Ferdinand VII, in whose name it was issued, spent most of this period as a prisoner at Valençay.