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8 Reales - Felipe V
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1729-1730 |
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| Value | 8 Reales |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The 1729–1730 Mexico City 8 reales occupies an odd transitional moment: Felipe V had already abdicated in favor of his son Luis I in 1724, only to resume the throne seven months later following Luis's death from smallpox. By the time these coins were struck, the king was back in power but increasingly withdrawn, leaving much of governance to his second wife, Isabel de Farnesio. The Cal#758.var. designation signals a die variant outside the primary Calicó census — worth noting for specialists working the macuquina-to-milled transition series, as Mexico City's assayer changes during this window directly affect attribution.