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4 Reales - Fernando VII Sombrerete - Royalist Coinage
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Sombrerete |
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| Year | 1812 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#175 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Sombrerete was a silver-mining town in Zacatecas, and when royalist forces needed to fund their campaign against Hidalgo's insurgency, the local mint struck emergency coinage using whatever silver could be pressed into service. Fernando VII was imprisoned in France at the time — a king whose authority these coins invoked but who had no knowledge of, or influence over, their production.
The Sombrerete mint operated only between 1810 and 1812 before falling to insurgent control, making this a terminal-year issue from a facility that existed entirely as a financial instrument of counterinsurgency.