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1 Real - Fernando VII Colonial Milled Coinage
| Issuer | Lima Mint / Cuzco Mint (Colonial Peru) |
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| Year | 1811-1824 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fernando VII never set foot in the Americas, yet his portrait was struck on colonial coinage throughout a period when Spain itself was occupied by Napoleonic forces and the king was a prisoner in France. The Lima and Cuzco mints continued striking in his name largely as a political act — an assertion of legitimate Bourbon authority at precisely the moment that authority was collapsing across the continent.
Cuzco's issues (KM#114.2) are notably cruder in execution than Lima's, reflecting both the altitude of the operation and chronic shortages of skilled assayers during the independence wars.