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2 Escudos - Isabel II
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Spain (Real Casa de la Moneda) |
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| Year | 1865-1868 |
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| Diameter | 37 mm |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Queen Isabella II facing right, her hair swept up and tied with a ribbon, adorned with a laurel wreath. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the hair and facial features. The peripheral legend curves around the upper half of the coin reading ISABEL 2A. POR LA G. DE DIOS Y LA CONST., and the date appears prominently in the lower exergual area. The entire design is enclosed within a dentilated border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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These escudos belong to the decimal coinage system Spain adopted in 1864 under the Monetary Law of June that year, which replaced the old real system in an attempt to align Spanish currency with the emerging Latin Monetary Union. The timing was politically precarious — Isabel II's reign was collapsing under the combined pressure of military conspiracies, clerical opposition, and the economic fallout of the 1866 financial crisis that devastated Madrid's banking sector.
The series ended abruptly when the Glorious Revolution of September 1868 sent Isabel into exile in France, making the final-year strikes among the shortest-lived issues of the denomination.