2 Reales

The Casa de Moneda de México resumed operations under republican authority following independence, but the transition was neither clean nor consistent. Throughout the mid-nineteenth century, eight branch mints across Mexico struck the 2 Reales concurrently — Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Durango, Culiacán, Hermosillo, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, and the capital — each with its own assayer initials and die-cutting quality. Pieces from Hermosillo (Ho) are notably scarcer across the entire date range.

The denomination itself was abolished with Mexico's shift to the decimal system in 1863, which recast the monetary structure around pesos and centavos. Coins struck in the final years before that transition were often hoarded rather than spent.