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1/4 Real
| Issuer | Ecuador |
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| Year | 1842-1843 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | The field bears the denomination spelled out in two lines at center: UN / CUARTO, rendered in bold raised lettering. A circular legend reading REPUBLI. DEL ECUADOR surrounds the upper portion of the field, with the mint name QUITO inscribed along the lower rim. The design is entirely typographic, with no figurative imagery, and is bordered by a reeded rim. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLI. DEL ECUADOR UN CUARTO QUITO (Translation: Republic of Ecuador One quarter Quito) |
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Ecuador's early republican coinage was chronically underfunded, and the billon fractional issues of the early 1840s reflect a mint struggling to maintain even minimal silver content. The Quito mint, operating under persistent financial and political instability following independence, produced these small-denomination pieces partly to address a shortage of everyday transaction coinage that had plagued the region since the colonial period ended.
KM#26 is among the more elusive of the Quito fractional types in collectible condition — the low silver content accelerated surface corrosion, and the coins were struck on poorly prepared planchets to begin with.