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4 Reales - Ferdinand VII
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Potosí |
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| Year | 1816-1825 |
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| Value | 4 Reales |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | · 4R · J · HISPAN · ET · IND · REX · |
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Potosí's output during this window was anything but stable. The mint changed hands repeatedly between royalist and patriot forces during the Wars of Independence — Potosí fell to patriot armies in 1810, was retaken by royalists, changed hands again in 1813, and again in 1815. By 1816 the royalists held the city, which is why coinage struck in Ferdinand VII's name continued here through the early 1820s even as the rest of Spanish South America was collapsing.
The series ends in 1825, the year Bolívar's forces permanently secured Upper Peru and the city became part of the newly declared Republic of Bolivia.