8 Reales Oaxaca - Insurgent Coinage

Oaxaca fell under insurgent control in late 1812 when José María Morelos captured the city, and the provisional mint established there struck necessity coinage to fund the independence movement. By 1814 the royalist reconquest was closing in — General Melchor Múzquiz retook Oaxaca in March of that year — meaning production of this type was sharply curtailed mid-year.

These pieces are characteristically crude, struck on irregular planchets with inconsistent die alignment, not from carelessness but from the conditions of a besieged revolutionary administration operating a mint under active military threat.