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1/4 Real
| Issuer | Ecuador |
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| Year | 1842-1843 |
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| Diameter | 14 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUBLI. DEL ECUADOR UN CUARTO QUITO (Translation: Republic of Ecuador One quarter Quito) |
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| Mint | Quito Mint, Quito, Ecuador |
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Ecuador's early republican coinage was chronically underfunded, and the billon fractional issues of the early 1840s reflect a mint struggling to maintain even minimal silver content. The Quito mint, operating under persistent financial and political instability following independence, produced these small-denomination pieces partly to address a shortage of everyday transaction coinage that had plagued the region since the colonial period ended.
KM#26 is among the more elusive of the Quito fractional types in collectible condition — the low silver content accelerated surface corrosion, and the coins were struck on poorly prepared planchets to begin with.