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2 Reales National Congress - Insurgent coinage
| Issuer | Supreme National Congress of America (Insurgent) |
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| Year | 1812-1814 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design featuring a bow, quiver of arrows, and a seated or standing figure, surrounded by the abbreviated legend denoting the Supreme National Congress of the Indies. The numeral indicating the denomination appears prominently within the field. The composition is asymmetrical and loosely rendered, consistent with the hand-cast production technique used by insurgent forces. The legend S. P. CONG. NAT. IND. encircles the central devices, affirming the issuing authority of the First Supreme National Congress. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Supreme National Congress of America — the insurgent governing body established at Chilpancingo in 1813 under Morelos — authorized copper coinage as a direct assertion of administrative independence from the Viceroyalty of New Spain. These pieces were struck under field conditions, and the irregular execution visible on most survivors reflects not incompetence but the practical constraints of a revolutionary government conducting a war on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Congress coinage circulated in contested territories of what is now Guerrero and Michoacán, regions where royalist and insurgent forces traded control repeatedly through 1814.