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2 Reales - Carlos III portrait
| Issuer | Lima Mint |
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| Year | 1785-1789 |
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| Weight | 6.7668 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped laureate bust of King Charles III facing right, rendered in the neoclassical style. The peripheral legend reads CAROLUS III DEI GRATIA, distributed around the effigy. The date appears in the lower exergual area of the field. The portrait is characteristic of the standard Bust coinage design adopted across Spanish colonial mints during the late 18th century. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned quartered shield of the Spanish Royal Arms, featuring castles and lions in alternating quarters with a central escutcheon, flanked on either side by the Pillars of Hercules with crowned globes. The denomination 2R and the Lima mint mark (LM or M) with assayer initials appear to the left of the shield, while the circumferential legend reads HISPAN ET IND REX around the upper and lower periphery. |
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