8 Escudos - Luis I

Luis I reigned for just seven months in 1724 before dying of smallpox at age seventeen, making his coinage among the shortest-reigned issues in the entire Spanish colonial series. The Mexico City Mint was already mid-production on his issues when word of his death arrived, leaving a narrow window in which both 1724 and 1725 dated pieces were struck under his name — the 1725 date reflecting the lag between peninsular events and colonial mint operations.

Cob-style macuquina fabric. Planchet irregularity is endemic to the type, not a strike deficiency.