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1/8 Real 'Tlaco' - Fernando VII
| Issuer | Mexico City Mint (Spanish Colonial) |
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| Year | 1814-1816 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | Mexico City Mint |
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The tlaco occupied an essential gap in New Spain's economy — silver coinage was too valuable for the smallest daily transactions, and no official copper had circulated in the colony for generations. These pieces were authorized in 1814 partly to address the economic chaos of the independence wars, which had disrupted silver supply chains and driven small-denomination coinage almost entirely out of circulation. Private copper tokens had already flooded the market; the Crown's response was to issue official competition.
The Mexico City Mint struck these for only three years before the series was abandoned — copper coinage remained deeply unpopular with a population conditioned to distrust base metal money.