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8 Reales - Fernando VI
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1754-1760 |
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| Currency | Real (1733-1859) |
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| Obverse lettering | • FERDIND • VI • D • G • HISPAN • ET IND • REX • * J * * 8 * (Translation: Fernando VI by the grace of God King of Spain and the Indies J 8 Reales) |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Guatemala's cob-era coinage was already being phased out across the Spanish colonial mints by the 1750s, with milled coinage introduced to combat the chronic problem of underweight and clipped macuquinas circulating at face value. The Guatemala mint was among the last to make the transition, and pieces struck during Fernando VI's reign occupy that awkward final window — produced under an administrative apparatus already anticipating its own replacement.
Fernando VI died in 1759 after a prolonged mental collapse following his wife's death, leaving no heir. Production at Guatemala under his name almost certainly continued into 1760 on administrative lag before the mint retooled for Carlos III issues.