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8 Escudos Guatemala
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Central America |
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| Year | 1824-1825 |
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| Value | 8 Escudos (128) |
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| Obverse description | Central device features a radiant sun with a human face rising above a range of five volcanoes, a classic Central American republican motif. The scene is enclosed within a continuous circular legend in Latin script along the periphery, with the date inscribed in the exergue or lower field. The overall design reflects the neoclassical republican style characteristic of early nineteenth-century Central American coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Federal Republic of Central America was barely a year old when these were struck, having declared independence from Mexico's short-lived Agustín I empire in July 1823. Guatemala City's mint — the only functioning gold mint in the federation — continued operating under the new republican authority with minimal interruption, using infrastructure inherited directly from the Spanish colonial apparatus. The transition was administrative more than physical.
Fr#26 is the Feuchs gold reference, confirming this denomination's place in the broader Spanish-tradition coinage family. The federation itself collapsed by 1839, fragmenting into five separate republics, making issues from this early window genuinely short-lived by any measure.