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1 Real - Fernando VII Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Zacatecas |
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| Year | 1811 |
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| Currency | Real (1535-1897) |
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| Obverse description | Draped laureate bust of King Fernando VII facing right, occupying the central field. The royal name and assayer initial appear in the surrounding legend, with the date 1811 positioned in the lower exergue. The portrait is rendered in a somewhat crude provincial style characteristic of early Mexican insurgency-era emergency coinage, with visible milling on the coin's border. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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Zacatecas began striking coins under royalist authority in 1810, just months after Hidalgo's revolt upended New Spain's mint supply chains. The Casa de Moneda there operated as an emergency facility — its early issues are notoriously crude, hand-struck with improvised tools under wartime pressure, and the 1811 output reflects exactly that chaos. These are sometimes called "cobs of the independence wars" informally, though they carry royal authorization.
KM#184 pieces from this year show significant die-to-die variation in centering and depth of strike, a direct consequence of the mint's hasty establishment rather than any systematic deficiency.