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1/2 Real Popayan
| Issuer | Popayán Mint |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Value | 1/2 Real |
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| Obverse description | Plain copper field entirely devoid of portraiture, bearing a centrally positioned three-line inscription in large raised Latin capital letters: 'P.' on the first line (denoting the Popayán Mint), followed by 'AÑO' on the second line, and the date '1813.' on the third line. A small floral or rosette ornament appears below the date in the lower field. The entire design is enclosed within a boldly milled, rope-like border of radiating reeds running continuously around the coin's periphery, characteristic of the emergency provincial coinage struck during the Colombian War of Independence. |
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| Obverse lettering | P. AÑO 1813. |
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Popayán's copper fractional issues of 1813 emerged from a mint caught between collapsing royalist authority and the early republican governments of New Granada. The city changed hands repeatedly during the independence wars, and the mint's output reflected that instability — small emergency strikes in base metal substituting for silver that could no longer be reliably sourced or safely circulated.
KM#B1 is catalogued as a provisional type, struck under circumstances that make die consistency rare.