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5 Reales
| Issuer | Venezuela |
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| Year | 1858 |
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| Reference(s) | Y#11, NCV#mv5r-aa |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1858 A - Anchor. - 26,120 |
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Venezuela's 1858 coinage was struck under extraordinary political pressure — the Federal War, one of the deadliest conflicts in Latin American history, broke out the following year and effectively dismantled the young republic's monetary infrastructure for nearly a decade. The 5 Reales denomination itself was already an anachronism at issue, a holdover from the colonial real system that Venezuela would formally abandon as the country staggered toward decimal coinage.
Surviving examples in any grade above Fine are genuinely scarce; wartime hoarding and metal recycling saw to that.