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2 Escudos - Fernando VII Seville, draped and cuirassed
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Seville (Real Casa de la Moneda de Sevilla) |
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| Year | 1808-1809 |
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| Currency | Real (1497-1833) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1808 SCN - Cal#254 - 1809 SCN - Cal#255 - |
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Fernando VII was technically king from March 1808, but spent virtually his entire early reign as Napoleon's prisoner at Valençay, having been maneuvered out of Spain within weeks of his accession. The Seville mint continued striking in his name precisely because the Junta Suprema Central — Spain's emergency governing body — established itself in Seville and needed coinage to assert legitimate Bourbon authority against the Bonapartist claim. That political urgency is the reason this type exists at all.
The 1808–1809 window closed when French forces took Seville in February 1810, ending the mint's operation under Fernandine authority for several years.