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8 Reales - Philip V Replica
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México (Mexico City Mint) |
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| Year | 1739 |
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| Thickness | 2.61 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | PHILIP · V · D · G · HISPAN · ET IND · REX ❀ · MF ❀ ❀ 8 ❀ |
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| Mintage | ND |
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The 1739 eight reales falls within the cob-style milled coinage produced at Mexico City during Philip V's second reign — he had abdicated in 1724 in favor of his son Luis I, then retook the throne after Luis died of smallpox seven months later. Mexico City was the highest-volume mint in the Spanish colonial system at this period, feeding silver extracted from Zacatecas and Guanajuato into Atlantic trade circuits that stretched from Cádiz to Manila.
This is a replica. The original KM#103 type was struck on a mechanically milled planchet, a technology Spain had mandated for its American mints following decades of fraud and short-weight cobs.