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14 Escudos - Fernando VII Proclamation coinage
| Issuer | Villa de Zamora, Mexico |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Value | 14 Escudos (224) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse field is dominated by a six-line inscribed text in capital letters set within a plain inner field, recording the details of the proclamation ceremony. Below the inscription, a decorative laurel branch ornament is engraved in the lower field. The surrounding peripheral legend, running along the inner edge of a dentilated border, reads PROCLAMADO EN LA VILLA DE ZAMORA EN 26 DE NOVE. DE 1808. POR EL ALFZ. RL. DON LAZARO MORALES POR ME- DIO DE SU TENTE. LIC. DON PEDRO JOSE NAVARRO, commemorating the acclamation of Fernando VII carried out on 26 November 1808 by the Royal Ensign Don Lázaro Morales through his Lieutenant Graduate Don Pedro José Navarro. A small eight-pointed star ornament appears at the top of the inner field, just below the peripheral legend. The overall composition is typical of provincial Mexican proclamation medallic coinage, combining heraldic and textual elements in a robust, deeply struck style. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Zamora's 1808 proclamation piece was struck to mark the public acclamation 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 town had no formal mint, so these pieces were produced under civic commission rather than royal minting authority — which accounts for the unusually high purity of the gold, unregulated by standard escudo alloy requirements.
Freitas 206 is among the rarest of the New World proclamation series. Zamora, a modest provincial town in Michoacán, struck in very limited quantities, and surviving examples appear at auction with striking infrequency.