2 Reales Rafael Carrera

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.