2 Escudos - Felipe V Seville

Felipe V abdicated in January 1724 in favor of his son Luis I, then reclaimed the throne seven months later when Luis died of smallpox — an interruption that created two distinct minting authorities within a single calendar year and left Spanish colonial accounting in temporary disarray. The Seville mint, one of the oldest operating houses in Iberia, continued producing gold escudos throughout this turbulence largely uninterrupted, supplying coinage for transatlantic trade routes at a moment when Bourbon administrative reforms were actively centralizing control over mint operations across Spain and its possessions.

The 1730–1742 window at Seville corresponds to the assayer pairing recorded under Calicó 421, with output quality varying noticeably across the run.