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2 Reales - Fernando VII Portrait of Carlos IV
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Colombia |
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| Year | 1810-1820 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The crowned Spanish Royal Coat of Arms is displayed centrally, flanked on either side by the Pillars of Hercules, each surmounted by a crown and wrapped with a banner bearing the PLUS ULTRA device. The encircling legend references the king's dominion over Spain and the Indies. To the left of the shield, the denomination and assayer's initials are indicated. The overall composition adheres to the standard heraldic arrangement of Spanish colonial coinage, with the legend distributed around the full periphery of the reverse field. |
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| Reverse lettering | •HISPAN•ET IND•REX•N•P•2R•J•F• |
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Struck in New Granada during the most turbulent decade in the viceroyalty's history, these coins were produced under Spanish royal authority even as that authority was collapsing in real time. The juntas that began seizing administrative control from 1810 onward had no immediate mechanism for monetary reform, so the mints at Bogotá and Popayán continued striking coins in the name of Fernando VII — the captive king held by Napoleon in Bayonne — simply because the machinery, the dies, and the silver were already there.
The Fernando VII portrait type on this issue actually depicts Carlos IV, a carry-over from earlier die stock that the mints never fully replaced.