4 Escudos - Fernando VI

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.