Colombia-Numismatics · colonial Popayán
1 escudo coin, 1795
1 escudo · Popayán P–JF · 1795
An 1795 gold escudo struck at Popayán in the name of Charles IV. The obverse carries the bust and the date; the reverse, the value 1 S and the marks P · JF.
Catalog facts
- Reference
- KM# 56.2 · Restrepo 85.8 · Hernández 688 · Cayón 14047 · Fr#59 · Numista N#52837
- Year
- 1795
- Metal
- Gold .875 (type specification)
- Mint
- Popayán (P)
- Condition
- Unslabbed; no grade assigned. Worn portrait, numerous surface lines and marks; date 1795, 1 S, and P–JF readable. Photographs do not authenticate the disc (private collection)
Obverse
Reverse
The piece
In 1795 the Popayán mint, at work since 1758, was striking milled gold in the name of Charles IV. This disc shows the date 1795 under the portrait, the value 1 S, and, on either side of the fleece, the marks P and JF — the assayer J reads as I in period lettering. That is type KM# 56.2 — Restrepo 85.8, Hernández 688, Cayón 14047, Friedberg 59 — not Santa Fe’s KM# 56.1 with mintmark NR–JJ, which the 1795 Bogotá record documents. It is not this collection’s 1800 P–JF escudo (Restrepo 85.18), nor the 1801, 1806, and 1808 pieces. Normalized obverse legend: CAROL · IIII · D · G · HISP · ET IND · R · 1795 (IIII, not IV); it expands to Carolus IIII Dei Gratia Hispaniarum et Indiarum Rex: “Charles IV, by the grace of God, king of the Spains and the Indies.” Reverse: IN · UTROQ · FELIX · A · D ·, for In utroque felix, auspice Deo. The 1 at left and S at right mark one escudo, not 15. Gold .875, a type weight of about 3.38 g, and a module of 19 mm are Numista figures; CoinVarieties notes 0.095 troy oz of fine gold on that weight. This disc was not weighed or measured. Numista gives the type a milled technique and medal alignment. The edge looks reeded in these photographs; there is no separate edge view, and the two faces do not fix this disc’s axis. No mintage is verified: CoinVarieties leaves the 1795 P–JF without a figure, Numista does not publish a mintage, and BanRep’s coin tables begin in 1987. Unslabbed; photographs do not authenticate the metal.
Scarcity
Numista covers type KM# 56.2 (N#52837) and lists the 1795 P–JF as Hernández 688, without a mintage. CoinVarieties documents that date and assayer as Cayón 14047, Friedberg 59, and KM# 56.2, and leaves the striking unstated. That page calls the type common within Charles IV gold; that is neither a survivor census nor a mintage for this year. Sedwick gathers Restrepo 85.8 and CT-526 for another specimen. No slab census and no hammer are published here. The 1795 Bogotá NR–JJ 1 escudo and the 1800, 1801, 1806, and 1808 Popayán P–JF pieces are separate records in this collection.
Sources
- Numista — 1 escudo, Charles IV, Colombia (N#52837) (opens in a new tab)
KM# 56.2 for the P mint; 1795 P–JF is listed as Hernández 688. Type gold .875, about 3.38 g, and 19 mm. No mintage and no value are cited here.
- Hernández — Coins and Banknotes of Colombia, 8th ed. 2023 (Numista L100183) (opens in a new tab)
Numista assigns Cód. 688 to the 1795 P–JF of this type. Price columns from that edition are not copied, and no mintage is read from them.
- CoinVarieties — Popayán 1 escudo, Charles IV, 1795 P–JF (opens in a new tab)
Cayón 14047, Friedberg 59, and KM# 56.2. Leaves the mintage unstated. The Goldberg lot it illustrates is another specimen; prices are not published.
- Sedwick — Popayán 1 escudo, Charles IV, 1795 JF (opens in a new tab)
Gathers KM# 56.2, Restrepo 85.8, and CT-526. A comparable; not this record, and prices are not published.
- Banrepcultural Encyclopedia — The Popayán mint (opens in a new tab)
The house began striking in 1758. Mint context, not authentication of this disc.
Related pieces
Other records from the same issuer or era in this case.
← Colombia-Numismatics ← Popayán 1 escudo, Charles IV (1792–1808) ← Bogotá 1 escudo, 1795 NR–JJ ← Popayán 1 escudo, 1800 P–JF ← Popayán 1 escudo, 1801 P–JF ← Popayán 1 escudo, 1806 P–JF ← Popayán 1 escudo, 1808 P–JF ← Popayán 2 escudos, 1791 P–SF