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8 Reales Pattern, Gorrito Guanajuato Prueba, copper
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Guanajuato |
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| Year | 1830-1839 |
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| Value | 8 Reales |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a Phrygian liberty cap inscribed LIBERTAD, set upon a radiant sunburst of elongated straight rays that fill the field. Around the periphery, the denomination and mint data are arranged in a circular legend: to the left, a small star above 8R and the Guanajuato mint mark Go with the partial date 183_, and to the right the fineness and assay notations 10 Ds. 20 Gs. A continuous beaded border frames the design, matching the obverse treatment. The overall composition is characteristic of the so-called Gorrito (liberty cap) pattern type produced at Guanajuato during the early republican period. |
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Pattern coinage from the Guanajuato mint during this decade reflects the profound institutional uncertainty of early Mexican independence, when individual state mints operated with considerable autonomy and occasionally struck trial pieces to test dies or propose design changes without central authorization from Mexico City. The "gorrito" — the Phrygian cap motif associated with republican liberty — appears on several pattern types from this period, and copper strikes were standard for die trials since the metal was cheap and workable.
KM#Pn22 is sparsely documented, and surviving examples are genuinely rare in any condition.