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1/2 Real - Fernando VII Royalist coinage
| Issuer | Maracaibo |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Currency | Real (1813-1814) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Maracaibo Mint |
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Maracaibo's 1813 copper issues were emergency coinages produced under royalist authority as the Venezuelan War of Independence fractured normal monetary supply chains. The city remained a Spanish loyalist stronghold well after Caracas fell to the patriots, and local authorities improvised low-denomination copper to keep petty commerce functioning when silver had largely vanished from circulation.
KM#3 is among the most locally distinctive emergency issues of the conflict — produced with crude dies under field conditions rather than at an established mint.