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1/4 Real Gran Colombia - Republican coinage
| Issuer | Caracas Mint |
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| Year | 1821-1822 |
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| Currency | Real (1802-1830) |
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| Reverse lettering | 1821 VENEZ.A 1/4 (Translation: 1821 Venezuela 1/4 Real) |
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| Mintage | 1821 - - 90,000 1822 - - 540,000 |
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Gran Colombia's earliest coinage presented an immediate practical problem: the new republic needed circulating money before its mints were properly equipped to produce it. The Caracas facility, working with degraded infrastructure following years of independence warfare, struck these quarter reales in debased .500 silver — a concession to metal shortages rather than a policy choice. The series ran barely two years before production ceased.