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| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guatemala |
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| Year | 1829 |
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| Weight | 3.38 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mint | NG Casa de Moneda de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala (1733-date) |
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The Central American Republic — formally the Federal Republic of Central America — was fracturing almost from the moment it declared independence from Mexico in 1823. By 1829 the federation was deep in civil conflict, with liberal forces under Francisco Morazán fighting conservative federalists backed by the Church. Coinage continued out of necessity rather than stability. Guatemala's mint, the oldest operating mint in Central America, struck these provisionals while the political architecture around it was actively collapsing.
The federation itself ceased to exist entirely by 1841.