Catalog
4 Escudos
| Issuer | Ecuador |
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| Year | 1836-1841 |
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| Diameter | 28 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLICA DEL ECUADOR QUITO . F.P. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ecuador's early gold coinage was struck at the Quito mint, which inherited both the equipment and the workforce of the colonial Casa de Moneda de Quito — an institution founded in 1572 that had operated continuously through independence. The new republic's transition to sovereign coinage was administratively messy; the 1836 start date for this type reflects years of political instability following the dissolution of Gran Colombia in 1830, which left Ecuador scrambling to establish functioning monetary institutions.
KM#19 is notably scarce in any grade. Quito's output during this window was modest, and the mint closed definitively in 1862.