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<p>[QUOTE="jgenn, post: 8192143, member: 78525"]The official design was stamped in a matrix block in Madrid and send out to the colonial mints. The disruption that caused the delay in sending out the the matrix blocks was not the wars of independence but the invasion of Spain by Napoleon. At one point during the conflict the government in exile retreated to Cádiz.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434516[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>None of the mints, including Potosi and Guatemala City had the proper bust in 1808. Potosi and Guatemala City continued to strike Charles IV coins with the 1808 date and chose to issue back dated coins with the proper bust of Ferdinand VI when the matrices finally arrived.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1434512[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jgenn, post: 8192143, member: 78525"]The official design was stamped in a matrix block in Madrid and send out to the colonial mints. The disruption that caused the delay in sending out the the matrix blocks was not the wars of independence but the invasion of Spain by Napoleon. At one point during the conflict the government in exile retreated to Cádiz. [ATTACH=full]1434516[/ATTACH] None of the mints, including Potosi and Guatemala City had the proper bust in 1808. Potosi and Guatemala City continued to strike Charles IV coins with the 1808 date and chose to issue back dated coins with the proper bust of Ferdinand VI when the matrices finally arrived. [ATTACH=full]1434512[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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