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1 Real - Fernando VII Zacatecas - Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Zacatecas |
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| Year | 1813-1819 |
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| Weight | 3.38 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | •HISPAN•ET IND•REX•Z•1R•A•G• (Translation: King of Spain and the Indies Zacatecas 1 Real AG) |
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The Zacatecas mint opened in 1810 specifically to keep royalist silver flowing to the Spanish Crown as insurgent forces disrupted established supply routes from Mexico City. Fernando VII himself never set foot in the Americas — he spent the critical years of the independence wars either imprisoned by Napoleon or maneuvering politically in Madrid — yet his effigy backed the emergency provincial coinage that financed the royalist campaigns against Hidalgo's successors.
Zacatecas issues from this period are notoriously crude, struck under improvised conditions with inconsistently prepared planchets. The 1813 date is the scarcest of the run.