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1 Real - Fernando VII Durango - Royalist coinage
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Durango |
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| 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 - - 1815 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.