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4 Reales - Charles IV
| Issuer | Bolivia |
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| Year | 1789-1790 |
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| Currency | Real (1574-1825) |
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| Reverse lettering | ·HISPAN·ETIND·REX·PTS·4R·P·R· |
| Edge | Milled |
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Charles IV acceded to the Spanish throne in December 1788, triggering a mandatory recoinage across all colonial mints to update the royal portrait. Potosí — the mint responsible for this piece — was among the slowest to transition, meaning the 1789–1790 window captures precisely that awkward interregnum when dies bearing the new king's name were cut before engravers had settled on a consistent effigy. KM#63 is accordingly short-lived as a type, superseded once Potosí's portrait coinage stabilized in the early 1790s.