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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 459967, member: 8959&quot;]I wanted to show you one of the highlights of my Spanish Colonial collection. This is an 8 reales coin minted in 1810 in Santiago de Chile, in the name of the Spanish king Fernando VII. </p><p>Santiago mint coins are among the scarcer of the the Spanish mints in the new world. Generally scarcer as a type than coins from the Mexico, Lima (Peru), and the Potosi (Bolivia) mints. On the other hands, coins minted at the 2 mints in what is now Colombia, are generally still scarcer. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This Bust type is of the so-called Uniformed Imaginary bust type. I think called &quot;imaginary&quot; because portraits of the new king Fernando had not yet arrived in Chile when the dies for the new king were engraved, after the death of the previous king Carlos IV. So this portrait represents the artist&#039;s rendition of what they thought the new king looked like. </p><p><br /></p><p>In that year, 1810, chilean rebel patriots under Bernardo O&#039;Higgins (a Chilean Patriot of mixed irish and creole descent) declared, prematurely as it turned out, their independence from Spain of the&nbsp; Captancy General of Chile. The spanish retaliated, aided by rugged and experienced spanish troops sent as reinforcements from Peru, some of whom had fought in the Peninsular war in Spain against the French. The spanish succeeded in reconquering Chile for the crown, including the capital Santiago.&nbsp; Final independence from Spain was only to be achieved after a further 8 years of bitter and bloody struggle in 1818.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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