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8 Reales - Fernando VII Durango - Royalist coinage
| Issuer | Royal Mint of Durango |
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| Year | 1811-1814 |
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| Currency | Real (1535-1897) |
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| Reverse description | Central crowned shield of the Spanish royal arms, featuring the quartered castles and lions of Castile and León, flanked by the crowned Pillars of Hercules with scrolling banners. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown. The circumferential legend surrounds the device, with the mint mark, assayer initials, and denomination indicated in the legend. The overall execution reflects the provincial character of the Durango mint during the insurgency period. |
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| Edge | Milled |
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The Durango mint operated under royalist control throughout the early years of the Mexican War of Independence, continuing to strike in the name of Fernando VII even as insurgent forces under Hidalgo and later Morelos disrupted supply lines and threatened the region. Durango's relative geographic isolation in the north kept it functioning when mints closer to the fighting were compromised or seized entirely.
Coins from this mint and period are notably irregular in flan preparation — not a strike problem per se, but a consequence of silver arriving inconsistently and assayers working under wartime pressure. The KM#110.1 designation covers several assayer initial combinations across the 1811–1814 range, and values differ sharply between them.