8 Reales - Felipe V Seville

Felipe V's Seville mint was producing cob coinage — macuquinas — well into the 1730s while Mexico City and Lima had already transitioned to milled coinage. These Seville pieces occupied an awkward transitional moment: the crown had mandated modernization across its mints, but Seville lagged, continuing irregular hand-struck production that made each piece dimensionally unique. The result is a type with no two specimens precisely alike.

Cayon's cataloguing of this type under Cal#943 reflects the difficulty of attributing Seville cobs from this reign — die combinations proliferate, and assayer identification remains contested on many examples.