FERDINAND VII (1808-1833). 2 Reales (Ae.3.85g/28mm). Fanciful Date: 800. (Ca 1815). Cartagena Colombia). Neither Aureo nor Km quote. (Restrepo-118.1). Good Very Fine. very rare Piece similar in design to another minted in Venezuela with a crude interpretation of the general geometric motifs. According to Richard Rosenman, these were minted under the direction of Viceroy Francisco Montalvo. There are several fictitious dates that include mainly 100, 880, 800, 777, 111,000, 444 and 808. In any case, they seem to have been minted by the royalist side during the reconquest of Cartagena. A 2 Republican Reales is used as the base currency, generally from 1814, with a die already used for silver pieces. This fact, using the copper base for a silver design, could have generated a certain amount of rejection among the population, which ended up ostracizing these pieces that, to this day, are once again in the spotlight of many collectors due to their undoubted quality. historical and symbolic charge.
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