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2 Reales - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Real Casa de la Moneda (Royal Spanish Mint) |
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| Year | 1810-1833 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1810 CI - large C,KM#460.1,Cal#835 - 1810 CI - small C,KM#460.1,Cal#834 - 1811 CI - large C,KM#460.1,Cal#837 - 1811 CI - small C,KM#460.1,Cal#836 - 1812 CI - KM#460.1,Cal#838 - 1814 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#916 - 1815 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#917 - 1815 SCJ - KM#460.3,Cal#1025 - 1816 CI - KM#460.1 - 1816 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#918 - 1817 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#919 - 1818 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#920 - 1819 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#921 - 1820 CJ - KM#460.3,Cal#1026 - 1820 GJ - KM#460.2,Cal#922 - 1821 AJ - KM#460.2 - 1821 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1028 - 1822 AJ - KM#460.2 - 1823 AJ - KKM#460.2,Cal#926 - 1823 CJ - KM#460.3,Cal#1029 - 1824 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#927 - 1824 J - KM#460.3,Cal#1031 - 1825 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#928 - 1825 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1033 - 1826 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#929 - 1826 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1034 - 1827 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#930 - 1827 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1035 - 1828 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#931 - 1828 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1036 - 1829 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#932 - 1829 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1037 - 1830 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#933 - 1830 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1038 - 1831 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#934 - 1831 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1039 - 1832 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#935 - 1832 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1040 - 1833 AJ - KM#460.2,Cal#936 - 1833 JB - KM#460.3,Cal#1041 - |
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Fernando VII's long reign produced one of the most administratively chaotic minting periods in Spanish colonial history. From 1808 onward, the Napoleonic occupation of Spain fractured the mint system entirely — peninsular production collapsed while colonial mints in Mexico, Lima, and Potosí carried the monetary weight of an empire fighting a war of independence on two fronts simultaneously. Many issues of this type were struck not in Spain proper but in emergency facilities, with assayer marks shifting as personnel changed under wartime conditions.
Fernando himself was a prisoner of Napoleon at Valençay from 1808 to 1814, meaning coins struck in his name for the first six years of this date range were produced by a regency government in his absence.