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CARLOS III (1759-1788). 8 Escudos. (Au. 26.97g/37mm). 1771. Lima JM. Second type of rat face. (Cal-2019-1926). Good Very Fine. Beautiful tone. Light scratch on reverse.

Between 1672 and 1772, Mexico, Lima, Santa Fe de Nuevo Reino, Santiago de Chile, Guatemala, Madrid and Sevilla coined the famous Rat Face, one of the most iconic portraits of the engraver and medalist Tomás Francisco Prieto and of all Spanish numismatics and that appear between the modules between ½ and 8 Escudos. The mint of Lima was, along with that of Mexico, the most prolific in terms of minted pieces, also finding two subtypes of busts basically differentiated by the shape of the nose. The first type would go between 1763 and 1768 and the second between that same 1768 and 1772, date on which the busts are unified in the so-called own bust.