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8 Reales Pattern, J. Guerrero, Silver
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México (Mexican Mint) |
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| Year | 1823 |
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| Engraver(s) | J. Guerrero |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central device features a radiant Phrygian liberty cap, its rays extending toward the periphery in a bold sunburst design. The lower portion of the field contains the denomination, mint mark, date, assayer's initials, and fineness designations arranged in a horizontal legend, reading 8.R.Mo.1823.J.M.10.Ds.20 Gs., indicating 8 Reales struck at the Mexico City Mint in 1823 with assayer initials J.M. and a silver fineness of 10 dineros 20 granos. |
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Mexico's first post-independence coinage was a genuine institutional crisis. The new republic needed a national coin type but lacked consensus on imagery, and several competing patterns were submitted in 1823. José Guerrero was among the engravers working at the Casa de Moneda in Mexico City during this transitional period, and his pattern represents one of the rejected proposals from that design competition — the type that lost to what became the iconic eagle-and-serpent series formally adopted later that year.
Pattern pieces from this contest survive in extremely small numbers, most traceable to institutional collections.