2 Escudos - Felipe V Seville

Felipe V's early reign was financially catastrophic. The War of the Spanish Succession, which ran from 1701 to 1714, forced the Spanish crown to drain its American silver and gold reserves at an extraordinary rate, and the Seville mint — fed directly by Andalusian trade routes from the Indies fleets — bore a disproportionate share of the production burden during these years. The Seville assayer marks from this period shift between recorded officials, making attribution of individual pieces a minor discipline of its own.

KM#293 covers a seven-year window that spans the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, after which Felipe formally renounced his claim to the French throne as the price of keeping Spain.