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8 Reales
| Issuer | Chile |
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| Year | 1830 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The early Chilean coat of arms occupies the central field, featuring a quartered escutcheon bearing a five-pointed star, supported on the dexter side by a rearing crowned horse and on the sinister side by a standing crowned condor, both rendered in fine relief. Above the shield rises an elaborate plume crest. The base is decorated with a scrolling floral and foliate ornament. The border is composed of a uniform beaded ring. No peripheral legend is present on this die. |
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This is a copper pattern striking of the 8 Reales, produced at a moment when Chile's newly independent government was actively experimenting with coinage specifications and compositions. The KM#PnA3 designation confirms its pattern status — it was never adopted for circulation, likely losing out to the standard silver specification that the denomination demanded in trade.
Pattern coins from early Chilean republican issues are notoriously underrepresented in major collections, partly because institutional records from the Santiago mint in this period are fragmentary.