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1 Real - Fernando VI
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1747-1753 |
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| Technique | Hammered (cob) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Two crowned hemispheres displayed centrally, flanked on either side by crowned columns of Hercules representing the Pillars of Hercules, with a partial circumscribed legend around the periphery and the date partially visible at the bottom of the field. The design follows the standard macuquina two-worlds type introduced for Spanish colonial coinage, with the strike being irregular and incomplete due to the cob production method. The planchet is roughly triangular and shows characteristic surface porosity and die-wear consistent with mid-eighteenth-century Guatemala mint output. |
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Guatemala's cob coinage — macuquinas — was already an anachronism by the mid-18th century, produced by hammer-striking planchets cut from cast silver bars rather than by the mechanized screw presses operating in Mexico City and Lima. Fernando VI's accession in 1746 prompted a recoinage order, but Guatemala continued hammering cobs well into his reign while awaiting equipment and trained personnel for milled production. The Casa de Moneda de Guatemala finally transitioned to milled coinage in 1753, making this type the last cob series struck there.