Catalog
2 Reales
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Quito |
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| Year | 1836-1841 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central field features a radiant sun with a human face in the upper portion, flanked by the denomination numeral 2 to the left and the letter R to the right. Below, two condors face each other upon a curved base, their wings folded. The peripheral legend EL PODER EN LA CONSTITUCION arcs around the upper portion, with the date and assayer initials (e.g. 1836 GJ) appearing in the lower arc, all within a beaded border. |
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Ecuador's Quito mint operated fitfully in the years following independence, hampered by chronic shortages of refined silver and persistent political instability under the Gran Colombian successor states. The billon-adjacent fineness of .666 was a deliberate concession to those supply constraints — a reduction from the colonial standard that caused ongoing friction with merchants who compared it unfavorably to the older macuquina coinage still circulating alongside it.
KM#18 is known with significant die variation across the emission years, a predictable consequence of a mint working with limited skilled engravers under inconsistent oversight.