8 Escudos - Luis I

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.