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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1965176, member: 112"]No that's Charles IIII Rusty. But he died that same year, 1808, and Ferdinand VII took the crown.</p><p><br /></p><p>What you are thinking of is when Charles III died and Charles IIII took the crown. Because there was not time to get new dies from Spain to the colonial mints fast enough, some coins were minted for a short time with the image of Charles III on them but with the name Charles IIII. It was easy and fast to change the III to a IIII, but it took a while for the die sinkers to carve an entirely new and different bust.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1965176, member: 112"]No that's Charles IIII Rusty. But he died that same year, 1808, and Ferdinand VII took the crown. What you are thinking of is when Charles III died and Charles IIII took the crown. Because there was not time to get new dies from Spain to the colonial mints fast enough, some coins were minted for a short time with the image of Charles III on them but with the name Charles IIII. It was easy and fast to change the III to a IIII, but it took a while for the die sinkers to carve an entirely new and different bust.[/QUOTE]
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