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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Biurs92, post: 2918586, member: 90607&quot;]Nice coins you have. Yes, Lima minted the imaginary portrait ( “Busto Limeño”) of Ferdinand VII, when he occupied the throne in 1808. It is because, the new stamps with the new King&#039;s bust was delayed from Spain to the Americas. For this reason &quot;La Casa de la Moneda de Lima&quot; decided to mint the imaginary Bust between 1808-1811. Moreover, I found this:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The first coins issued in the name of Ferdinand VII do not bear his portrait at all, but rather that of his father, Carlos IV. This was common practice in the Colonial mints, where it usually took months or years for Madrid to send them coin dies with the portrait of the new king. Coins showing Carlos IV, with the legend FERDIN.VII, were issued in beginning in 1808 by the mints of Guatemala, Colombia, and Santiago Chile, though not in mainland Spain.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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