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8 Escudos - Fernando VI
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1747-1752 |
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| Composition | Gold (.917) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1747 GG - - 127 1750 GG - - 2 1752 GG - Only as over-date 1752/1 - |
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Guatemala's cob-style gold coinage — the so-called "macuquina" — was still being struck by hand on irregularly shaped planchets well into Fernando VI's reign, a production method largely abandoned elsewhere in the Spanish colonial system. The Lima and Mexico City mints had already transitioned to milled coinage by this period, but Guatemala lagged, making these issues the last gasps of a medieval striking technique in the Western Hemisphere.
Fernando VI never visited the Americas, but his accession in 1746 prompted a recoinage across colonial mints. Guatemala's output under his name remained small, which partly explains the relative difficulty in attributing clean, legible specimens to specific years within the 1747–1752 window.