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8 Reales - Ferdinand VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Potosí |
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| Year | 1808-1825 |
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| Currency | Real (1574-1825) |
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| Edge | Milled |
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| Mintage | 1808 PTS PJ - - 1809 PTS PJ - - 1813 PTS PJ - - 1813 PTS PJ - `FERDIN IIV` error - 1814 PTS PJ - - 1815 PTS PJ - - 1816 PTS PJ - - 1,877,000 1817 PTS PJ - - 1,906,000 1818 PTS PJ - - 1,649,000 1819 PTS PJ - - 1820 PTS PJ - - 1821 PTS PJ - - 1822 PTS PJ - - 1823 PTS JP - - 1823 PTS PJ - overdate variety exists - 1824 PTS J - - 1824 PTS PJ - - 1825 PTS J - - 1825 PTS JL - coin alignment - 1825 PTS JL - normal medal alignment - 1825 PTS JL - without pomegranate or fleur-de-lis in arms; rare - |
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Ferdinand VII never set foot in the Americas, yet his effigy was struck at Potosí throughout his reign — including the years 1808 to 1814 when he was Napoleon's prisoner at Valençay and not meaningfully king of anything. The Potosí mint, operating at over 4,000 meters altitude in what is now Bolivia, continued producing in his name through the entire independence war convulsing the Río de la Plata region around it.
The series ends in 1825, the year Bolívar's forces consolidated control of Upper Peru and the new republic of Bolivia was proclaimed — ending nearly three centuries of Spanish minting at the site.