1091 | Spanish Monarchy

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FERDINAND VI (1746-1759). 8 Escudos. (Au. 26.95g/37mm). 1754. Lima JD. (Cal-2019-767). Good Very Fine. Nice and rare specimen.

Ferdinand VI left the imprint of his bust exclusively on gold coins. The portraits that we find in all the golden modules faithfully represent the baroque style in which his reign took place. It is the high point of the so-called “peluconas”, which, due to French influence, had already reached our currency from the hand of Philip V and which continued, although in a more lukewarm manner, until the first coinage of Charles III, when it began to be This complement could be considered a symbol of absolutism that did not fit too well with the image of a reformist king that Charles III intended to project. In the case of Lima and after the period between 1751 and 1753, where a portrait was minted for this mint, we find, starting in 1754, the typical bust that the monarch mint in most American mints.