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1/8 Real 'Octavo'
| Issuer | State of Durango |
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| Year | 1828 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A young child or indigenous figure stands facing right, holding a bow and arrow and carrying a quiver, positioned before a small flowering tree or plant rising from the ground. The composition is contained within a plain field with no surrounding legend, the design executed in a naive provincial style typical of early nineteenth-century Durango copper issues. The imagery references regional or allegorical iconography associated with the State of Durango. |
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Durango's copper fractional coinage of the 1820s emerged from a chronic shortage of small-denomination specie that plagued northern Mexico almost immediately after independence. The federal government lacked the infrastructure to supply copper coinage uniformly across distant states, so Durango — like several other states — took matters into its own hands. These octavos circulated primarily among the laboring poor, who had little use for silver but needed fractional change for daily transactions.
KM#321 is one of several distinct Durango copper types from this decade, produced under inconsistently maintained equipment at a mint that was itself a relatively recent colonial inheritance.