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8 Escudos - Fernando VII Catalonia
| Issuer | Girona Mint (Catalonia, Spain) |
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| Year | 1813-1814 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDIN·VII·D·G· HISP·ET·IND·R ·1813· (Translation: Fernando VII by the grace of God King of the Spains and Indias) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Struck under siege conditions at Girona — a city that had already endured one of the most brutal French sieges of the Peninsular War in 1809, lasting seven months before capitulating. By 1813, with Wellington's campaign pushing Napoleon's forces back across the Pyrenees, provisional Catalan minting resumed under desperate circumstances and inconsistent supervision. The Girona facility operated with limited dies and erratic gold supplies, which accounts for the striking irregularities documented across known specimens of this type.
Fernando VII was still a French prisoner at Valençay when these pieces were struck in his name.