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1/4 Real 'Quarto/Quartilla'
| Issuer | State of San Luis Potosí |
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| Year | 1862 |
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| Currency | Real (1535-1897) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA MEXICANA |
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San Luis Potosí issued copper fractional coinage in 1862 under the authority of the state government during a period when the federal Mexican treasury had effectively collapsed under the strain of the Reform War's aftermath and Juárez's suspension of debt payments — the very act that triggered French intervention. With silver coinage largely hoarded or absent from daily commerce, individual Mexican states stepped in to produce low-denomination copper pieces to keep local markets functioning. This quartilla is a direct artifact of that fiscal disintegration.