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2 Reales - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México (Mexican Mint) |
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| Year | 1809-1811 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Draped laureate bust of King Fernando VII facing right, rendered in the neoclassical style characteristic of early 19th-century Spanish colonial coinage. The king's hair is tied with a ribbon at the nape and falls in loose locks over his shoulders, with fine drapery detail visible on the truncation. The circumferential legend FERDIN · VII · DEI · GRATIA reads clockwise around the upper portion of the field, with the date displayed in the lower exergue flanked by pellets. The portrait is attributed to the dies prepared under the supervision of the Mexico City Mint engravers following Ferdinand VII's accession. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fernando VII never set foot in the Americas, yet coins struck in his name flooded New Spain's economy throughout the independence crisis. By 1808, Napoleon had forced his abdication at Bayonne and installed Joseph Bonaparte — leaving colonial mints in the awkward position of striking coinage for a king held captive in France. These issues thus circulated under a regency government operating in his name, with Mexican mint officials loyal to the peninsular juntas rather than to any figure actually holding power.
The 1809–1811 window covers the earliest phase of the Hidalgo revolt, which erupted in September 1810 and immediately disrupted silver supplies reaching Mexico City from the Guanajuato mines.