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4 Reales
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1873-1893 |
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| Weight | 12.7 g |
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| Obverse description | Guatemalan national coat of arms depicted centrally, featuring a resplendent quetzal bird perched atop a scroll inscribed with the independence date LIBERTAD 15 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1821, flanked by two crossed rifles and two crossed swords, all enclosed within a wreath of laurel branches tied at the base with a ribbon. The fineness mark 0900, mint initial, and date of issue appear in the lower field to either side of the mint mark. |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTAD 15 DE SETIEMBRE DE 1821 0900 D. 1879 (Translation: Freedom 15th September 1821 0.900 D 1879) |
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Guatemala's 4 reales survived well into the 1870s and 1880s as a denomination that was, by then, administratively obsolete in most of Latin America. The country had nominally adopted a decimal peso system in 1869, yet demand — particularly in rural highland markets where the old colonial fractional system remained the practical currency of daily exchange — kept the reales series in production for another two decades.
KM#150 spans a minting window bracketed by political turbulence, including the long authoritarian presidency of Justo Rufino Barrios, whose 1871 Liberal Revolution had itself disrupted monetary administration at the Casa de Moneda in Guatemala City.