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1 Escudo - Carlos II
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Lima |
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| Year | 1698 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Carlos II, the last Habsburg king of Spain, died in 1700 leaving no heir — making coins struck in his final years, like this 1698 Lima issue, among the last gold cob coinage produced under a dynasty that had controlled Spanish American minting for nearly two centuries. The Lima mint had operated since 1565, and by the late 1690s its output was feeding an empire already in visible decline.
Cob-format gold of this period is notorious for irregular flan preparation, so planchet quality varies dramatically within the type itself.