1/2 Real

Colombia's fractional silver coinage of the early 1850s was struck under the monetary framework inherited from the Gran Colombia period, itself modeled on the Spanish colonial decimal reform. The Bogotá mint bore the full burden of supplying these small-denomination pieces to a country where silver fractions remained the primary medium of everyday market exchange — larger denominations were simply impractical for most transactions.

Production across these years was inconsistent, with documented gaps tied to bullion shortages and the political instability preceding the Liberal reforms of 1853 that would eventually reorganize the republic's monetary administration entirely.