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8 Escudos - Felipe V
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Santa Fe de Bogotá |
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| Year | 1736-1746 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Crowned quartered royal arms of Castile and León within an ornate shield, displaying alternating castles and lions in the four quadrants. The crowned escutcheon is set centrally in the field, flanked by the Pillars of Hercules on either side, representing the Spanish colonial device. The irregular flan, characteristic of cob-style (macuquina) coinage, results in a partially visible surrounding legend. The design reflects the standard cob gold coinage of the Nueva Granada mint under Felipe V. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Felipe V spent much of his reign locked in dynastic conflict — first the War of Spanish Succession, then the War of Polish Succession, then the Anglo-Spanish War — and the colonial mints existed primarily to fund it all. Santa Fe de Bogotá's 8 escudos from this decade were cob-style macuquina pieces, hand-hammered on irregular planchets, which means no two are identical in shape or strike distribution. The assayer's initial on these issues is critical to attribution; pieces from this window are associated with the assayer J (Joseph Matheo Velarde), whose mark anchors the Hernández 765–768 range.
Felipe V died in July 1746, making late-dated examples from that terminal year transitional pieces struck just as Fernando VI's accession restructured colonial mint administration.