2 Reales San Cristobal

The Estado Táchira 2 Reales of 1872 is one of the more obscure emergency issues from Venezuela's fractured federal period, produced locally in the Táchira region when central coinage supply was effectively nonexistent in the western provinces. Táchira, isolated by the Andes from Caracas, operated with considerable administrative autonomy during this period and occasionally issued its own money to fill the vacuum.

Bronze was a practical choice — it required less infrastructure than silver striking. The KM#S1 designation itself signals how far outside the national series this piece sits.