1/4 Real 'Señal' - Fernando VII

The señal coinage was an emergency measure authorized by the viceregal government as New Spain's silver supply collapsed under the strain of the independence wars. Insurgent forces controlled key mining regions and supply routes, making regular silver coinage increasingly impossible to produce in sufficient quantities. These copper pieces — struck at Mexico City — were intended as provisional small change, never as a permanent fixture.

The KM#64 type spans the entire final decade of Spanish colonial rule, yet surviving examples in better condition are genuinely scarce; the coins circulated hard through a population with few alternatives for fractional transactions.