Catalog
8 Reales - Felipe V
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Lima |
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| Year | 1701-1724 |
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| Value | 8 Reales |
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| Obverse description | Central Jerusalem cross with flared terminals dividing the field into four quarters, each bearing alternating castles of Castile and lions of León in the characteristic Spanish colonial cob style. The castles are rendered as turreted towers and the lions as rampant passant guardant figures. A partial circular legend reading PHILIPPVS is visible around the periphery, though characteristically incomplete due to the irregular flan. The date numerals appear at the base of the cross, partially struck as is typical of macuquina coinage. |
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| Mintage | 1701 LH - - 1702 LH - - 1703 LH - - 1704 LH - - 1705 LH - - 1706 LH - - 1707 LH - - 1708 LH - - 1709 LM - - 1710 LH - - 1711 LM - - 1712 LM - - 1714 LM - - 1715 LM - - 1716 LM - - 1717 LM - - 1718 LM - - 1719 LM - - 1720 LM - - 1721 LM - - 1722 LM - - 1723 LM - - 1724 LM - - |
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Felipe V inherited the Spanish throne through the 1700 will of the childless Carlos II, triggering the War of the Spanish Succession — a conflict that dragged most of Europe into fourteen years of fighting over whether a Bourbon or a Habsburg would control Spain's empire. Lima continued striking throughout, largely insulated from the European theater but not from the administrative disruption it caused. The cob-style macuquina coinage of this period was notoriously irregular in shape and strike, and Lima pieces are no exception.
The assayer initial on these coins is the critical detail for dating within the 1701–1724 window. H (Juan Raymundo Helguero) and M (Miguel de Sanabria) are the marks most commonly encountered.