Catalog
2 Escudos
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Bogotá |
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| Year | 1747-1756 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse description | Bold upright cross potent with trefoil terminals occupying the central field, set within a decorative tressure of arched lobes and pellets forming an ornate quatrefoil border — the characteristic Jerusalem cross design used on Spanish colonial cob coinage. The cross divides the field into four quadrants, each containing a decorative fleur-de-lis or pellet ornament. The surrounding legend is largely off-flan, as is typical for macuquina-type cob coins of this period. |
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| Mintage | 1747 SF SR - Hernández#715 - 1748 SF SR - Hernández#715 - 1749 SF SR - Hernández#715 - 1750 SF S - Hernández#716 - 1751 SF S - Hernández#716 - 1752 SF S - Hernández#716 - 1753 SF S - Hernández#716 - 1754 SF S - Hernández#716 - 1755 SF S - Hernández#716 - 1756 SF S - Hernández#716 - |
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The cob coinage — macuquina — struck at Bogotá during this decade was produced under the same crude hammered method that Spain had used in its American mints for two centuries, even as the peninsula's own mints had long since converted to milled production. The 1747–1756 window falls squarely in the transitional period when Madrid was actively pressuring colonial houses to modernize, a campaign that would eventually shutter the macuquina operation entirely by the early 1770s.
Bogotá's output was never as voluminous as Potosí or Lima, and assayer attribution on pieces from this run remains contested between the two references.