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1/8 Real 'Octavo'
| Issuer | State of Durango |
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| Year | 1824-1828 |
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| Weight | 3.9 g |
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| Reverse description | A radiant rising sun with diverging rays dominates the upper portion of the field, above a horizontal band or arc enclosing the date. The entire motif is surrounded by a laurel or olive wreath, with the legend 'LIBERTAD' appearing above the sun. The design is enclosed within a beaded border. |
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| Reverse lettering | LIBERTAD 1824 |
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Durango's copper fractional coinage of the 1820s emerged from a practical crisis: silver was being hoarded or exported almost as fast as the newly independent Mexican states could mint it, leaving daily commerce without a functional small-denomination medium. Individual states were authorized to strike copper to fill the gap, and Durango — isolated by geography and ongoing insurgent activity in the Sierra Madre — operated with considerable autonomy in its monetary decisions.
These octavos circulated hard in a regional economy where they were often the only coin a laborer would handle in a week.