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1/4 Real - Carlos IV arms
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de Lima |
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| Year | 1792-1795 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central shield displaying the quartered arms of Castile and León, surmounted by a royal crown. The assayer initials I J flank the shield on either side at mid-field, with the mint mark for Lima (L or LIMA) also present. The surrounding peripheral legend identifies the monarch as King of the Spains and the Indies, with the legend distributed around the full circumference of the coin. |
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The fractional reales struck at Lima in the early 1790s served the chronic small-change shortage that plagued daily commerce throughout the Viceroyalty of Peru — a problem the larger milled coinage never adequately addressed. This denomination was among the last of its type before the colonial monetary reforms of the mid-1790s shifted production priorities toward larger silver denominations for transatlantic remittance.
Lima's assayer marks on pieces from this short window vary enough that attribution sometimes requires close die study.