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8 Escudos - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1814-1821 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Crowned and quartered arms of Spain, displaying the castles of Castile and lions of León, within an ornate shield flanked by the Pillars of Hercules hung with the Order of the Golden Fleece chain. The denomination 8 and assayer initials JJ appear to either side of the shield, with the mint mark Mo below. The outer circular Latin legend is separated from the central device by a beaded border, with a toothed outer rim. |
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These pieces were struck during the most chaotic stretch of Mexican monetary history — the decade-long insurgency against Spanish colonial rule that began with Hidalgo's revolt in 1810. The Mexico City mint continued operating under royalist control throughout, producing gold coinage in Fernando VII's name even as the surrounding countryside changed hands repeatedly and silver production collapsed due to disrupted mining operations.
Fernando himself never set foot in New Spain. He spent the years 1808–1814 as Napoleon's prisoner at Valençay, which makes the loyalist coinage struck in his name during that captivity a peculiar artifact of colonial allegiance to an absent, imprisoned king.