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| Issuer | Santo Domingo (1492-1821) |
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| Year | 1813 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | SD 1/4 (Translation: Santo Domingo) |
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Santo Domingo's copper coinage of this period emerged from administrative necessity rather than monetary ambition. By 1813, the colony had changed hands repeatedly — ceded to France in 1795, occupied by Haitian forces, retaken by a Spanish expeditionary force in 1809 — and the chronic shortage of small-denomination currency made local copper issues unavoidable. The 1/4 real filled a transactional gap that Spanish metropolitan silver could never reliably supply to a colony this far down the imperial supply chain.
KM#2 is among the scarcest colonial copper issues of the Caribbean, with surviving examples frequently showing irregular flans from rudimentary local production.