Catalog
8 Escudos - Luis I
| Issuer | Lima Mint |
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| Year | 1725 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | LVSUS DEI GRATIA · L · 8 · M · 1725 |
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Luis I reigned for just seven months before dying of smallpox in August 1724, making any coinage struck in his name exceptionally short-lived by issue. Lima production under his name continued briefly into 1725 as news of his death traveled slowly across the Atlantic — a routine lag that inadvertently extended his numismatic presence beyond his biological one.
KM#40 from Lima is a macuqueño type, the cob-style hammered format still in use at the viceregal mint well into the 1720s. The shift to milled coinage at Lima came only in 1751.