Catalog
2 Escudos - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Lima |
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| Year | 1812-1813 |
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| Weight | 6.7668 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of King Ferdinand VII facing right, rendered in the imaginary portrait style typical of Lima Mint coinage of this period. The effigy shows the king wearing a laurel wreath tied at the back with a ribbon, and a draped mantle fastened at the shoulder. The circular legend reads FERDN · VII · D · G · HISP · ET · IND · R ·, with the date 1812 positioned in the lower exergue. The coin is framed by a finely milled border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fernando VII never set foot in Peru — he was imprisoned at Valençay by Napoleon from 1808 onward — yet the Lima mint continued striking gold coinage in his name throughout the occupation period. This issue falls during the height of the independence movement in Spanish South America, when royalist control of Peru remained firm even as Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Bogotá were fracturing. Lima was, for a time, the last reliable stronghold of Spanish monetary authority on the continent.
The 1812–1813 date range coincides with the liberal Cádiz Constitution, which briefly altered the administrative character of colonial minting before Ferdinand's restoration swept it aside in 1814.