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8 Reales Oaxaca - Insurgent Coinage
| Issuer | Insurgent Forces of the Sud (South), Tierra Caliente, Mexico |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays the distinctive cursive monogram of José María Morelos, rendered as an interlaced 'Mo' cipher in raised relief within a dotted or beaded border. Beneath the monogram, the denomination and date are inscribed in three lines: •8•R• and •1813•. The lettering is crude and characteristic of the hand-engraved dies used for this insurgent emergency coinage, with an uneven field surface resulting from the casting process. |
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| Reverse lettering | Mo •8•R• •1813• (Translation: Morelos 8 Reales) |
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The Oaxaca insurgency under José María Morelos operated its own mint beginning in 1812, issuing copper coinage when silver was unavailable or strategically withheld. These pieces were struck crudely under field conditions — the dies were hand-cut locally, which accounts for the considerable variation in lettering and module between specimens of the same nominal type. KM#248 sits within a broader family of Morelos coppers that numismatists have spent decades sorting into die marriages.
Morelos was captured and executed in December 1815, collapsing the Sud insurgency's administrative structure. Issues from 1813 represent the operation near its peak territorial control, before royalist counteroffensives began systematically dismantling rebel-held Oaxaca.