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2 Reales - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1808-1810 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Draped laureate bust of King Fernando VII facing right, rendered in the armored portrait style characteristic of early nineteenth-century Spanish colonial coinage. The king's hair is tied at the nape with a ribbon, and fine detail is visible in the truncation of the shoulder. The encircling Latin legend reads FERDIND • VII • DEI • GRATIA •, with the mint date 1810 positioned in the lower exergual area between two pellets. A fine toothed border frames the entire design. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Fernando VII never actually ruled effectively during this period — by 1808 he had been forced to abdicate at Bayonne under Napoleon's pressure, leaving Spain and its colonies in administrative limbo. Guatemala's mint continued striking coins in his name throughout the crisis, a declaration of legitimacy from a colonial authority that had no clear chain of command to follow. The Casa de Moneda de Guatemala was one of the few colonial mints to maintain relatively consistent output during these years of political confusion.
KM#62 is the milled macuquina transitional type, produced before the fully regularized bust coinage took hold in the region.