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1/2 Real - Felipe V
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1701-1728 |
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| Weight | 1.69 g |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned royal cypher of Felipe V (PHILIPVS monogram) in the field, rendered in the cob (macuquina) style typical of early 18th-century Mexican coinage. The crowned monogram is flanked by partial circular legend in Latin, though due to the irregular flan and hand-struck nature of the piece, only portions of the surrounding inscription are visible. The strike is characteristically off-center, with the design unevenly impressed across the roughly shaped planchet. |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIPVS V DEI GRATIA |
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Felipe V ascended to the Spanish throne in 1700 as the first Bourbon king, triggering the War of the Spanish Succession — a conflict that dragged on until 1714 and left the colonial mints largely untouched by the dynastic chaos in Europe. Mexico City continued striking cob coinage under the same macuquina method that had been in use since the 16th century: silver blanks cut from cast bars, weighed, and hammer-struck with no concern for roundness or centering.
KM#24 spans the period before the 1732 milled coinage reform that would eventually end cob production entirely. Surviving examples are rarely well-centered, and attribution to Felipe V rather than Carlos II relies almost entirely on readable assayer initials.