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8 Escudos - Ferdinand VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Potosí |
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| Year | 1822-1824 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Casa de Moneda de Potosí, Bolivia |
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Ferdinand VII never visited the Americas, yet coins struck in his name continued flowing from Potosí well into the independence period — a bureaucratic and loyalist reflex as the royalist cause collapsed around the mint. By 1822, most of Spanish South America had effectively broken from the crown. Upper Peru (modern Bolivia) remained one of the last royalist holdouts, and the Potosí mint kept striking Ferdinand's coinage until Sucre's forces took the region in 1824, ending three centuries of Spanish minting there.
The final-year pieces are notably scarcer, produced in a mint operating under military pressure and dwindling bullion supply during the siege of the last royalist stronghold.