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8 Reales Tesoreria Nacional
| Issuer | Tesoreria Nacional de Puerto Rico |
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| Year | 1813 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Tesoreria Nacional de Puerto Rico Vale ocho reales Año de 1813 |
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| Reverse lettering | HISPANIARUM REX CAROLUS IV D.G. SELLO |
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The Tesorería Nacional de Puerto Rico issued this 8 Reales note under extreme fiscal pressure — the Spanish colonial treasury in San Juan had been chronically short of coin since the late eighteenth century, and the interruption of situado payments from New Spain during the Napoleonic wars made paper emission a practical necessity rather than a monetary experiment. By 1813, Mexico was deep in its own independence war, and the situado — the annual silver subsidy that had kept Puerto Rico solvent — had effectively collapsed.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication device, a common workaround in colonial treasuries that lacked sophisticated printing infrastructure. Pick lists only two notes for this issuer, making the 1813 series among the earliest documented paper issues for the island.