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1 Real - Fernando VII Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Zacatecas Mint |
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| Year | 1810-1811 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse description | Central crowned royal arms of Spain, depicting the quartered shield of Castile and León surmounted by a royal crown, flanked on either side by the Pillars of Hercules. The peripheral legend reads FERDIN·VII· DEI·GRATIA with the date below, all within a beaded border. The design follows the standard colonial Spanish armorial type adapted for provisional royalist coinage. |
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| Mint | Zacatecas Mint, Zacatecas, Mexico |
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The Zacatecas mint opened under royalist authority in 1810 specifically because the insurgency had disrupted silver shipments from the interior to established mints — most critically Mexico City. This issue belongs to the emergency coinage struck to maintain Crown monetary operations as Miguel Hidalgo's forces destabilized supply routes across New Spain. Zacatecas itself was a loyalist stronghold sitting atop one of the richest silver-producing regions in the hemisphere, which made it both strategically essential and logistically capable of standing up a functioning mint on short notice.
Early strikes from 1810 show considerable die crudeness, a known characteristic of the series given the speed of the mint's establishment.