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1 Real
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1899 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the Guatemalan coat of arms: a long-tailed quetzal bird perched atop a scroll inscribed with the independence date, flanked by two crossed rifles and two crossed swords, all within a wreath of laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon. The legend LIBERTAD 15 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1821 appears on the central scroll in the field. The date 1899 is inscribed in the exergue below the wreath. |
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| Reverse lettering | REPUBLICA DE GUATEMALA 30 DE JUNIO DE 1871 1 REAL LAGRANGE (Translation: Republic of Guatemala 30th June 1871 One Real) |
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Guatemala's 1 Real coinage of this period was a holdover denomination in a monetary system already transitioning toward decimalization — the peso decimal system had been formally adopted decades earlier, but reales persisted in practice through the 1890s as the government struggled to stabilize currency amid chronic fiscal instability and the dominance of coffee export revenues controlled by a small planter elite. By 1899, the Liberal government of Manuel Estrada Cabrera, who had seized power that same year following the assassination of President Reina Barrios, was managing a monetary environment under considerable strain.
KM#171 represents one of the final years this denomination was struck before Guatemala moved decisively to a new monetary framework in the early twentieth century.