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8 Reales - Fernando VI
| Issuer | Lima Mint |
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| Year | 1747-1751 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lima's 8 reales production in the late 1740s falls squarely within the cob coinage transition period, when the Lima mint was still recovering from the scandal that had rocked it in the 1730s — assayers had been systematically debasing silver, a fraud uncovered in 1730 that led to executions and a complete reorganization of the mint's assayer hierarchy. Fernando VI's accession in 1746 brought renewed administrative scrutiny to colonial minting operations across Spanish America.
KM#44 is attributed to assayer "J" (José Sagardía), whose initials appear on surviving examples alongside the Lima monogram. The short reign window makes this a genuinely constrained issue by date range alone.