Catalog
1/4 Real
| Issuer | Peru |
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| Year | 1826-1856 |
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| Value | 1/4 Real |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1826 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1827 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1828 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1829 LIMA - KM#143.1 (inverted `1/4`); overdate variety exists - 1830 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1831 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1832 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1833 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1834 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1835 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1836 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1837 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1839 AREQ - KM#143.2 - 1839 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1840 LIMA - KM#143.1 - 1841 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1842 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1843 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1845 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1846 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1847 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1848 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1849 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1850 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1851 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1853 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1855 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - 1856 LIMA - KM#143.1; overdate variety exists - |
| Additional information |
Peru's 1/4 real filled a genuine gap in everyday transactions during the early republican period, when small change was chronically scarce across the newly independent Andean states. The Lima mint had been producing fractional silver continuously since the colonial era, and this denomination carried that tradition forward under republican authority with minimal interruption. Notably, the .903 fineness held firm across the entire thirty-year run — unusual discipline for a mint operating through repeated political upheavals, including the Peru-Bolivian Confederation crisis of the late 1830s.
Examples struck in the early 1830s occasionally show adjustment marks from the assayer's file, a legacy of hand-adjusted planchet preparation that persisted well past its usefulness at Lima.