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8 Escudos - Fernando VII Guadalajara - Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Guadalajara Mint, Spanish Colonial Administration (Mexico) |
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| Year | 1813 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Guadalajara mint struck royalist gold during some of the most violent years of the Mexican War of Independence, operating under constant pressure from insurgent forces that had already disrupted or seized other colonial mints. This particular issue belongs to a series intended as much to demonstrate Crown authority as to fulfill any practical monetary function — gold coinage in a colony bleeding men and silver was a political act.
Guadalajara's 8 escudos from this period are notoriously inconsistent in their planchet quality, a direct consequence of disrupted supply chains and improvised assay conditions. The assayer initials on the coin identify which official was legally liable for the fineness.