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2 Reales
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1872-1873 |
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| Weight | 6.35 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | REPA DE GUATEMALA 15 DE SETE. DE 1821 +0900 P. 1873+ (Translation: Republic of Guatemala 15th of September 1821 0.900 P.1873) |
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Guatemala's 2 Reales issue of 1872–73 falls at the precise hinge point between the colonial real system and the decimal reforms that would sweep Central America through the 1870s. The Liberal Revolution of 1871 — which brought Miguel García Granados and then Justo Rufino Barrios to power — disrupted mint operations and monetary planning simultaneously, making this a transitional type struck under considerable institutional instability. It would be among the last reales-denominated silver struck in Guatemala before the peso decimal system took hold.