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1/2 Real - Fernando VII first type
| Issuer | Lima Mint |
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| Year | 1808-1811 |
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| Value | 1/2 Real |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | FERDIN VII DEI GRATIA |
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Fernando VII's first coinage from Lima presents a peculiar historical irony: the king in whose name these coins were struck had already been forced to abdicate to Napoleon by the time production began. The Junta Central governing Spain in his absence authorized continued royal coinage as a deliberate assertion of legitimacy against the Bonapartist usurpation — minting his name was a political act as much as an economic one.
Lima was producing this type under genuinely uncertain circumstances, with news from the Peninsula arriving months late and colonial loyalty fracturing visibly by 1810.