Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
1/4 Real
| Issuer | Guatemala |
|---|---|
| Year | 1889-1891 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Central device depicts three volcanoes rising from a horizontal ground line, the middle volcano emitting smoke or flames, all surmounted by a radiant sun with alternating long and short rays in the upper field. The design is rendered in a bold relief style characteristic of Central American republican coinage. A fine beaded border encircles the entire coin. The date appears in the exergue below the volcanic group. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | 1889 - - 1890 - - 1891 - - |
| Additional information |
Guatemala's fractional silver coinage of this period was produced under the monetary framework established after the country abandoned the old colonial real system — slowly and incompletely. The 1/4 real persisted well past the adoption of the peso decimal system precisely because small-denomination silver remained the only practical medium for indigenous market transactions in the highlands, where paper currency was effectively useless.