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2 Escudos - Felipe V Seville
| Issuer | Spain |
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| Year | 1701-1706 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a bold cross pattée set within a quadrilobe (quatrefoil) frame, dividing the field into four compartments. The four cantons carry, reading clockwise from upper left, the date (1704), the mint mark S (Seville), the denomination numeral 2, and the assayer initial P. The circumferential legend HISPANIARUM REX, identifying the monarch as King of the Spains, runs around the periphery in Latin capital letters with pellet stops. The entire design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle and a toothed outer rim consistent with early eighteenth-century milled Spanish gold coinage. |
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| Reverse lettering | HISPANIARUM REX 1704 S 2 P 2 |
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Felipe V arrived in Madrid in 1701 as the first Bourbon king of Spain, his accession immediately triggering the War of the Spanish Succession as Austria, England, and the Dutch Republic backed the rival Habsburg claimant. The Seville mint — one of the few consistently supplied with American gold through the Casa de Contratación — continued striking through the opening years of that conflict, though production was periodically disrupted as the war moved into Andalusia.
The 1704 Anglo-Dutch capture of Gibraltar brought the fighting uncomfortably close to Seville itself, and archival mint records show irregular coinage output through 1705.