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2 Reales - Fernando VI
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1747-1753 |
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| Technique | Hammered (cob) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1747 J - - 1748 J - - 1749 J - - 1750 J - - 1751 J - - 1752 J - - 1753 J - - |
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Fernando VI's reign saw Guatemala City's mint — the Casa de Moneda de Guatemala, established in 1733 — operating under chronic pressure to meet colonial silver quotas while maintaining the cob-style (macuquina) production that made these pieces notoriously irregular in shape and strike. The KM#10 type falls within the transitional window before milled coinage reform reached the Guatemalan assay house in the 1750s, meaning most survivors show the characteristic ragged flans of hand-hammered cob production.
Assayer marks on these pieces are the primary tool for dating within the 1747–1753 window.