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2 Reales - Fernando VII Proclamation coinage
| Issuer | Viceroyalty of New Spain (Mexico City Mint) |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Currency | Real (1535-1897) |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1808 |
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Fernando VII never actually ruled New Spain — he was imprisoned by Napoleon at Bayonne in May 1808 before his accession could be consolidated, yet the Mexico City Mint struck proclamation coinage in his name that same year as a formal declaration of colonial loyalty to the captive king. These pieces were produced for the public ceremony of the proclamación, a ritual acclamation of a new monarch, and were typically scattered among the crowd or distributed to officials rather than entering general commerce.
The timing matters: news of Bayonne reached Mexico City in July 1808, triggering a constitutional crisis over whether sovereignty reverted to the people or the viceroy. Proclamation coinage was already being prepared amid that unresolved argument.