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4 Reales - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Viceroyalty of Peru |
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| Year | 1808-1811 |
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| Weight | 13.5337 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | HISPAN. ET IND. REX. LME 4R JP |
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Fernando VII never set foot in the Americas, yet his effigy was struck on colonial coinage almost immediately after the Bayonne abdications of 1808, when Napoleon forced both Carlos IV and Fernando VII to surrender the Spanish throne to Joseph Bonaparte. The Lima mint continued striking in Fernando's name as an act of political loyalty to the deposed king — a declaration that the Viceroyalty recognized no French-imposed sovereign.
These transitional years at Lima produced notable inconsistencies in die quality as the mint navigated political uncertainty with little guidance from a captive monarchy.