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8 Escudos - Carlos III Colonial Milled Coinage
| Issuer | Lima Mint |
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| Year | 1784-1789 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Casa de Moneda de Lima (Lima Mint), Peru |
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Carlos III's Lima mint operated under a strict assayer accountability system — the initials on each coin identified the individual responsible for fineness, and a substandard assay could end a career or worse. During the 1780s, Lima's output was increasingly consumed by the Crown's mounting war debts, particularly the costs of defending against British incursions following Spain's entry into the American Revolutionary War on the Franco-American side in 1779. Much of this gold never reached Spain at all, intercepted by Royal Navy privateers in the Atlantic.
The KM#82.1a designation distinguishes this issue by its specific assayer pairing — a detail that collapses the attribution window considerably within the broader 1784–1789 run.