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1/4 Real
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1894-1899 |
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| Weight | 0.79 g |
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| Obverse lettering | 1898 |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Guatemala's cuartillo series of the 1890s was struck in the final years before the country abandoned silver fractional coinage entirely under pressure from falling global silver prices and the economic disruptions of the Manuel Estrada Cabrera era. The Casa de Moneda de Guatemala had been producing these small silver pieces continuously since the colonial period, but the 1894–1899 run represents the last gasp of that tradition.
The .835 fineness was a deliberate reduction from earlier standards, a quiet debasement that went largely unnoticed given the coin's negligible face value.