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1 Real - Fernando VII Guadalajara - Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Guadalajara Mint (Mexico) |
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| Year | 1813-1815 |
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| Weight | 3.38 g |
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| Obverse description | Draped and laureate bust of King Fernando VII facing right, rendered in the imaginary portrait style typical of colonial Royalist coinage. The effigy is set within a beaded border, with the royal legend arcing around the periphery. The date appears in the lower portion of the field, partially integrated into the legend. The portrait reflects the standardized bust design employed at the Guadalajara mint during the insurgency period. |
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| Reverse lettering | •HISP•ET IND•REX•GA.1R.M.R (Translation: King of Spain and the Indies 1 Real Guadalajara RM) |
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Guadalajara's royalist mint operated under siege conditions for much of this period, as insurgent forces under figures like Torres and El Amo controlled large swaths of Jalisco. The mint continued striking in the name of Fernando VII — then imprisoned by Napoleon at Valençay — not out of genuine loyalty so much as administrative necessity, maintaining the fiction of imperial continuity while the colony's actual authority fragmented around it.
KM#83.2 distinguishes this Guadalajara issue from contemporaneous royalist emergency coinages at Zacatecas and other provisional mints. Die quality varies considerably across the 1813–1815 run.