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1/4 Real 'Quarto/Quartilla'
| Issuer | State of Jalisco |
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| Year | 1858-1860 |
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| Currency | Real (1535-1897) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | An allegorical figure of Justice is depicted seated on a throne in a three-quarter frontal pose, holding an upright staff or cane surmounted by a Liberty cap (Phrygian cap). The central device is rendered in a classical allegorical style consistent with liberal Mexican republican coinage of the era. The legend UNA CUARTILLA is inscribed in the field, identifying the denomination. |
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Jalisco's copper quartos were an emergency provincial issue, authorized as the young Mexican republic struggled to maintain a functioning small-change supply during the Reform War — the brutal three-year civil conflict between Liberal and Conservative factions that fractured federal monetary authority and forced individual states to fend for themselves. With silver fractions effectively withdrawn from circulation or hoarded, copper became the only practical medium for petty transactions across much of western Mexico.
KM#356 is known with significant die variation across the 1858–1860 window, a predictable consequence of decentralized state-level production with limited quality control.