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2 Reales
| Issuer | Republic of Guatemala |
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| Year | 1881 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#154a |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Seated allegorical figure of Liberty or Justice facing right, resting against a square pedestal inscribed with the date '30 DE JUNIO DE 1871', and holding scales of justice; to the left, a large quetzal bird with elaborate plumage faces inward. The circular legend 'REPUBLICA DE GUATEMALA' runs along the upper periphery, with the denomination 'DOS REALES' displayed in bold letters along the lower field. A toothed border frames the entire design. |
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Guatemala's 2 Reales coinage of this period occupied an awkward monetary moment — the country was in the process of transitioning away from the colonial real system toward a decimal currency, which arrived definitively with the peso reforms of the 1880s. Issues from 1881 were struck in the final years before that system was abandoned entirely, making them transitional survivors of a dying denomination rather than coins of any settled monetary order.