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1/2 Real
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1880-1892 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTAD 15 DE SETIEMre DE 1821 0835 E 1880 (Translation: Freedom 15th September 1821 0.835 E 1880) |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Guatemala's fractional silver coinage of this period was issued under the reform monetary system established after the country's 1873 adoption of the real-based decimal structure — a hybrid arrangement that kept traditional denominations while metrifying their weights. The 1/2 real occupied the lowest tier of the silver series and saw hard daily use in local markets, which makes problem-free examples genuinely difficult to locate.
Production ran across more than a decade at the Casa de Moneda in Guatemala City, with known date variations across the series.