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1 Real
| Issuer | Republic of Peru |
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| Year | 1826-1856 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Reverse description | A standing draped figure of Liberty faces slightly left, helmeted and robed in classical style, holding a globe or orb aloft in her raised right hand. Her left hand rests upon a column or fasces at her side. The encircling Latin legend reads around the periphery within a beaded border. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Peru's early republican coinage was struck under chaotic conditions across multiple mints — Lima and Cuzco both produced this denomination, and the two facilities differed enough in quality and die preparation that examples from Cuzco are noticeably cruder. The republic had only just severed ties with Spain in 1824, and the monetary system inherited from the colonial period was kept largely intact out of necessity, with the real retained as the basic unit rather than any new republican denomination.
The type ran for three decades before decimalization finally arrived in 1863 with the introduction of the sol.