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2 Reales Rafael Carrera
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1866-1869 |
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| Currency | Peso (1859-1912) |
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| Reverse description | The Guatemalan coat of arms occupies the central field, depicting a quetzal bird perched atop a scroll, flanked by two crossed rifles and two crossed swords, with laurel branches tied below. Two national flags flank the shield on either side, and a radiant sun rises above the whole composition. A scroll bearing inscriptions in the field surrounds the central device. The fineness designation and date appear to the left and right respectively, with the denomination DOS Rs. inscribed in the exergue at the bottom. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Rafael Carrera, the illiterate pig farmer who became Guatemala's first president-for-life, died in office in April 1865 — yet coins bearing his name continued striking through 1869. The post-Carrera government under Vicente Cerna retained the Carrera coinage types rather than commission a new design, a decision almost certainly driven by the cost and disruption of a full monetary overhaul during an unstable transition.
KM#142 is known with assayer initial variations across its short run, and attributing pieces to specific years within the 1866–1869 window requires close attention to those marks.