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1⁄16 Real 'Medio Octavo' Federal Coinage
| Issuer | Mexico |
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| Year | 1831-1833 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/16 Mo•A•1831• |
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The Medio Octavo was authorized under Mexico's early federal coinage legislation as the smallest denomination in the republic's copper series — a practical necessity for a population still conducting daily commerce in fractional values inherited from the colonial cob and milled real system. Production ran across only a handful of state mints, and output was never uniform; the issues from different assay offices vary noticeably in planchet quality and strike depth, a known characteristic of the type rather than a grading variable.
The denomination saw limited circulation life. Copper hoarding and regional resistance to federally issued small change cut short its practical use in several states before the series was discontinued.