Zacatlán, a stronghold of the insurgency in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, began issuing emergency copper coinage in 1813 under the authority of local rebel commanders operating largely independent of any central insurgent government. These pieces were struck with crude dies and minimal infrastructure — field coinage in the most literal sense, produced to keep a local war economy functioning when royalist forces had severed trade routes and cut off legitimate specie from Mexico City.
KM#251 is among the more frequently documented of the Zacatlán types, though condition is almost always poor. The copper used was locally sourced and inconsistently refined.
Zacatlán, a stronghold of the insurgency in the Sierra Norte de Puebla, began issuing emergency copper coinage in 1813 under the authority of local rebel commanders operating largely independent of any central insurgent government. These pieces were struck with crude dies and minimal infrastructure — field coinage in the most literal sense, produced to keep a local war economy functioning when royalist forces had severed trade routes and cut off legitimate specie from Mexico City.
KM#251 is among the more frequently documented of the Zacatlán types, though condition is almost always poor. The copper used was locally sourced and inconsistently refined.