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2 Reales Honduras
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Central America |
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| Year | 1825 |
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| Weight | 6.77 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a ceibo tree (the national tree of the republic) rising from a curved baseline, with the denomination numeral 2 and the letter R flanking the trunk in the lower field, denoting 2 Reales. The peripheral legend LIB. CRESC. FEC. arcs around the upper field, while the mint and assayer abbreviations NR.T.1.D (denoting the Tegucigalpa mint and assayer initials) arc around the lower field. An inner beaded border frames the central device, and the coin bears a post-mint hole near the top of the field. |
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The Federal Republic of Central America was barely two years old when this coin was struck, having declared independence from Mexico in 1823 after a brief and unhappy annexation under Agustín de Iturbide. The republic inherited Guatemala City's colonial mint and immediately faced the problem of establishing monetary credibility across five fractious provinces — Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica — that shared little beyond geography and mutual suspicion.
Honduras is specified as the issuing authority, though the physical striking almost certainly occurred at the Guatemala City mint, the only functioning facility in the federation at the time.