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2 Reales
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Quito |
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| Year | 1836-1841 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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.