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1/8 Real 'Octavo'
| Issuer | State of Chihuahua |
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| Year | 1833-1835 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | 1/8 |
| Edge | Herringbone |
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Chihuahua's copper fractional coinage of the early 1830s was a direct response to a chronic shortage of small change that plagued northern Mexico throughout the first decade of independence. The federal government in Mexico City was in no position to supply the frontier states with adequate low-denomination specie, so Chihuahua — along with a handful of other states — received authorization to strike its own provisional copper issues. These were never intended as permanent currency.
The octavo circulated almost exclusively within Chihuahua's borders, accepted grudgingly by a population that preferred silver. Hoarding of full reales made the copper fractions a practical necessity regardless of that preference.