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1/2 Real - Fernando VII Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Guadalajara, Municipality of (Mexico) |
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| Year | 1812-1815 |
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| Weight | 1.69 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of King Ferdinand VII facing right, rendered in low relief within a beaded border. The royal effigy is encircled by a Latin legend naming the monarch and invoking divine authority, with the date of issue appearing at the base of the legend. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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When insurgent forces under Hidalgo and later Morelos disrupted New Spain's established mint network, royalist-controlled municipalities were left scrambling to produce emergency coinage. Guadalajara's cabildo struck these fractional pieces under authorization from the royalist administration, using whatever silver could be sourced locally — which explains the notoriously inconsistent fineness found across surviving specimens despite the nominal .903 standard.
The KM#74.2 designation distinguishes this from closely related Guadalajara emergency types by die characteristics. Dating attribution across the 1812–1815 window is often determined by provenance rather than legible date, as many strikes are weakly impressed from hastily prepared dies.