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1 Real State of Honduras - Provisional
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de la Moneda, Tegucigalpa |
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| Year | 1853 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central device featuring an upright tree in the field, flanked on either side by the denomination value. The date 1853 appears at the bottom of the central design along with the mint initial G and assayer initial T, all enclosed within a circular border. A circular legend in Latin script surrounds the entire composition. |
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| Mintage | 1853 T |
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Honduras declared independence from the Central American Federation in 1838, but monetary infrastructure lagged badly behind political reality. The Casa Nacional de la Moneda in Tegucigalpa struggled for decades to produce coinage of consistent fineness, and the "provisional" issues of the early 1850s reflect exactly that institutional instability — billon at .040 silver is barely distinguishable from base metal, a fineness born of necessity rather than policy.
KM#18 exists in multiple sub-varieties across different years, with 18d representing one of the later die iterations. Attributing these correctly requires attention to the specific assayer initial present in the field.