Mexico 1802-Mo FT 8 reales

from the Mountain Groan Collection

Shown is an 1802MoFT eight reales, one of a type struck 1791-1808. Assayer FT is recorded for the years 1801-03. The eight reales of Charles IV is the commonest Mexican colonial coin, rivaled only by the following eight reales of Ferdinand VII (1808-21). Mintages are not known but must have been in the millions to account for the number of survivors. This type is available in all grades although nice Uncirculated pieces can be expensive. The catalog mentions an overdate, 1802/1, and an overassayer, FT/M; the normal date shown here is the most common.

Specification: 27.07 g, 0.896 fine silver, .780 troy oz ASW.

Catalog reference: Cayón-13934, KM 109.

Source:

• Cayón, Adolfo, Clemente Cayón and Juan Cayón, Las Monedas Españolas, del Tremis al Euro: del 411 a Nuestros Dias, 2 volumes, Madrid: Cayón-Jano S.L., 2005.
• Calicó, Xavier, Numismática Española: Catálogo General con Precios de Todas las Monedas Españolas Acuñadas desde Los Reyes Católicos Hasta Juan Carlos I, 1474 a 2001, Barcelona: Aureo & Calicó, 2008.
• Harris, Robert P., Pillars & Portraits, San José, CA: Bonanza Press, 1968.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• Elizondo, Carlos A., Eight Reales and Pesos of the New World, San Antonio, TX: 1968.
• Raymond, Wayte, The Silver Dollars of North and South America, 2nd Ed., Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing, 1964.

Links to:

• 1801 8 reales
• 1802 real
• 1802 2 reales
• Peru 1802-L IJ 8 reales
• Spain 1802-M MF 8 reales
• 1802 escudo
• 1802 2 escudos
• 1802 4 escudos
• 1802 8 escudos
• 1803-FM 8 reales
• 1803-FT 8 reales
• 1803-TH 8 reales
• Coins and currency dated 1802
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