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4 Escudos - Fernando VI
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Lima |
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| Year | 1750 |
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| Value | 4 Escudos (64) |
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| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Casa de Moneda de Lima, Lima, Peru |
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Fernando VI's reign saw a major overhaul of Spanish colonial minting practices, and Lima was under particular scrutiny following decades of systematic fraud at the Potosí mint — a scandal that had come to a head in the 1640s and cast a long shadow over all South American coinage. The cob-style macuquina format was being phased out in favor of milled coinage during exactly this period, making 1750 a transitional year at Lima.
Fr#13 is among the scarcer fractional gold assignments in the Fernando VI Lima series, with surviving examples typically tracing to old Spanish or South American collections rather than northern European cabinets.