2 Escudos

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.