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2 Reales - Ferdinand VI Proclamation
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1747 |
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| Currency | Real (1733-1859) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Ferdinand VI facing right, with flowing wig, set within a beaded border. The royal legend surrounds the effigy, reading FERDO VI D.G. HISPAN. ET IND. REX, identifying the monarch as King of Spain and the Indies. The portrait is rendered in the colonial baroque style characteristic of mid-18th century Spanish American coinage. |
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| Reverse description | Royal proclamation design featuring the crowned arms or monogram of Ferdinand VI, as customarily employed on proclamation coinage struck at Guatemala to celebrate the accession of the new monarch in 1747. The field is surrounded by a beaded border, with the date and mint identifiers positioned in the legend or exergue in accordance with standard colonial proclamation coin convention. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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