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8 Reales State of Honduras - Provisional
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de la Moneda, Tegucigalpa |
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| Year | 1856 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central device featuring a tree standing in the field, flanked on either side by the denomination mark '8 • R'. The circular legend appears around the periphery, with the date 1856 and mint assayer initial 'G' inscribed at the bottom of the field below the tree. A beaded border surrounds the entire design, consistent with the milled coinage tradition of the Tegucigalpa mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Honduras struck provisional copper coinage in 1856 under acute fiscal pressure — the newly independent republic lacked the silver to maintain a functioning specie currency and turned to copper as a stopgap. The Casa Nacional de la Moneda in Tegucigalpa was a modest facility by any measure, and its output from this period reflects the technical limitations of a mint operating on the margins of what the state could actually fund.
KM#21 survivors are frequently found with weak peripheral detail, a known characteristic of the dies rather than circulation damage.