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4 Reales - Fernando VII bust of Carlos IV
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile (Santiago Mint) |
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| Year | 1808-1815 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDIN·VII·DEI·GRATIA·1810 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Fernando VII never set foot in the Americas, yet coins struck in his name dominated colonial commerce for years after his 1808 capture by Napoleon. Santiago's mint continued using the portrait of his father, Carlos IV, simply because no approved likeness of the new king had yet reached Chile — a bureaucratic lag that kept a deposed monarch's face in active circulation well past his abdication.
The 1810 outbreak of the Chilean independence movement unfolded entirely during this type's production window, meaning these pieces circulated through both royalist and patriot hands without interruption.