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8 Reales - Ferdinand VI
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Potosí |
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| Year | 1746-1760 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#40 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | •POTOSI•ANO•1747•EL•PERV• (Translation: Potosi, year, 1747, of Peru.) |
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Ferdinand VI never visited the Americas, and his coinage from Potosí reflects the administrative distance between Madrid and the Viceroyalty of Peru. The Potosí mint had a long history of fraud — most notoriously the scandal of 1649, when assayers were found to have debased silver on a massive scale for years — and the Crown's tightened oversight during Ferdinand's reign was partly a consequence of that institutional distrust still reverberating a century later.
This macuquina-style cob issue was among the last of its type; the transition to milled coinage at Potosí was completed by 1773 under Charles III.