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1 Real - Fernando VII Proclamation coinage
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Ferdinand VII facing right, wearing a laurel wreath, within a beaded border. The effigy is rendered in a provincial style typical of proclamation coinage issued in the Spanish colonies. The date 1808 appears in the lower field below the portrait. The surrounding legend reads FERNANDO VII REY DE HSP IND, abbreviated for King of Spain and the Indies. |
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| Reverse description | Central field bears a multiline inscription POR SU LEAL AYUNTA MIENTO and the denomination 1·R·, all enclosed within a plain inner circle. The outer legend SANTA ANA GRANDE ENG, referring to the loyal ayuntamiento (municipal council) of Santa Ana, runs along the periphery separated by a beaded border. A small star or rosette ornament appears at the top between the outer legend segments. The overall layout is characteristic of Spanish colonial proclamation pieces struck by local civic authorities. |
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Struck to mark the proclamation of Fernando VII following the forced abdications at Bayonne, where Napoleon compelled both Carlos IV and the prince of Asturias to renounce the Spanish throne in favor of Joseph Bonaparte. The proclamation issues from across the American colonies were produced in the months of uncertainty that followed — loyalty declarations in metal, minted before it became clear that Fernando would spend the next six years a prisoner in France rather than a king on his throne.
El Salvador had no mint of its own; these pieces were struck at Guatemala City under the authority of the Captaincy General of Guatemala.