1 Real - Fernando VII

Fernando VII never set foot in the Americas, yet coins struck in his name circulated across Central America for over a decade — a colonial fiction maintained even as independence movements dismantled the empire around them. Guatemala's mint continued producing in his name through 1821, the very year the captaincy-general declared independence. Some of the final issues were struck within months of that declaration, making the terminal dates of this type a quiet record of an administration collapsing in real time.