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1/2 Real Rafael Carrera
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1859-1861 |
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| Value | 1/2 Real (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Rafael Carrera ruled Guatemala as a caudillo of extraordinary longevity — from the late 1830s until his death in 1865 — having seized power as an illiterate pig farmer leading a peasant rebellion against the liberal reforms of Mariano Gálvez. By 1859, when this fractional silver issue entered production, he had consolidated the country as a nominal republic while exercising effectively absolute authority. The Central American Federation had long since collapsed, and Guatemala was striking its own coinage independently for the first time in a generation.
KM#131 was minted in Guatemala City under consistently difficult refining conditions, which accounts for the slight variation in fineness documented across the type.