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8 Reales - Fernando VII Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Nueva Viscaya, Province of |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Composition | Silver (.903) |
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| Reverse lettering | FERN • VII • REI • DE • ESP • ETIND • 8R • R• M• (Translation: Fernando 7th King of Spain and the Indies 8 Reales RM) |
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| Mintage | 1811 RM - Several varieties exist. |
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Nueva Vizcaya's 1811 coinage emerged from one of the more chaotic episodes of New Spain's independence war. With royal mints disrupted or fallen to insurgents, peripheral provinces struck emergency issues under local royalist authority to maintain a functioning medium of exchange for troops and loyal populations. Nueva Vizcaya, deep in what is now the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, was sufficiently remote that its issues circulated in near-isolation.
KM#165 is notorious among collectors for crude workmanship — not a generic strike weakness, but a documented consequence of improvised dies cut by provincial craftsmen with no formal training in coinage.