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4 Reales - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1808-1810 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1808 NG M - - 1809 NG M - - 1810 NG M - - |
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Fernando VII never actually governed during this period — he was imprisoned at Valençay by Napoleon from May 1808, and these coins were struck in his name while Joseph Bonaparte sat on the Spanish throne. Guatemala's mint continued issuing coinage for the captive king as a deliberate act of political loyalty, not administrative routine. The colonial mints of Spanish America largely refused to recognize the Bonapartist usurpation.
KM#63 covers a transitional window that ends just before the broader independence movements forced a reckoning with whose name should appear on colonial silver.