2 Reales Insurgent Coinage

Nueva Galicia's insurgent issues of 1813 were produced under José María Vargas, operating in territory the royalist administration in Guadalajara had not yet managed to suppress. These coins were struck to pay irregular forces operating across the region — not ceremonial, not commemorative, but purely functional wartime currency produced with whatever dies and silver the insurgency could control.

KM#218 is among the cruder productions of the independence-era provincial issues, reflecting field conditions rather than mint infrastructure.