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1 Real - Fernando VII Durango - Royalist coinage

Issuer Royal Mint of Durango
Year 1813-1815
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Diameter 20 mm
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Reverse script Latin
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Mintage 1813 D RM - -
1814 D MZ - -
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Durango's royalist mint operated under siege conditions for much of the Mexican War of Independence, producing coinage to pay loyalist troops and assert Crown authority in a region constantly contested by insurgent forces. The mint functioned sporadically, which accounts for the often crude workmanship seen across the entire Durango royalist series — not carelessness, but the product of interrupted supply chains and rotating personnel.

Fernando VII never set foot in New Spain; coins struck in his name here were declarations of political allegiance as much as anything functional. By 1821, the Durango mint would be striking for an independent Mexico.

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