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8 Escudos
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Chile |
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| Year | 1818-1834 |
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| Weight | 27 g |
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| Reverse lettering | POR LA RAZON, O LA FUERZA · So · 8E · I · 1838 · |
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| Mintage | 1818 So FD - `CONSTIT` - 29,000 1818 So FD - `CONSTITU` - 1819 So FD - - 37,000 1820 So FD - - 35,000 1821 So FD - - 16,000 1822 So FI - - 31,000 1823 So FI - - 19,000 1824 So I - - 10,000 1825 So I - - 8,483 1826 So I - - 7,607 1827 So I - - 2,176 1828 So I - overdate variety exists - 4,250 1829 So I - - 1830 So I - - 3,068 1831 So I - - 1,745 1832 So I - overdate variety exists - 11,000 1833 So I - overdate variety exists - 25,000 1834 So I - - 1834 So IJ - - 31,000 |
| Additional information |
Chile's 8 escudos of this period were struck at the Santiago mint during the republic's earliest years, when the new government was still fighting Spanish royalist forces in the south. The mint itself had been operating under Spanish colonial authority until 1817, and the transition to republican coinage was administratively chaotic — early dies were cut by craftsmen who had trained entirely within the colonial system, which accounts for the stylistic conservatism of these pieces relative to contemporaneous South American republican issues.
Production ran unevenly across the sixteen-year span, with assayer-marked varieties offering the primary means of dating individual strikes more precisely than the broad date range suggests.