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1 Escudo - Agustín de Iturbide Proclamation
| Issuer | Guatemala |
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| Year | 1822 |
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| Value | 1 Escudo (16) |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned bare bust of Agustín de Iturbide facing left, rendered in moderate relief with naturalistic detail to the hair and facial features. The date 1822 appears in the exergue below the truncation. The surrounding legend reads AGUST · I · EMP · DE MEXICO · and is separated from the bust by a plain inner field, with beaded border running along the coin's periphery. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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This piece was struck to commemorate the proclamation of Agustín de Iturbide as Emperor Agustín I of Mexico in July 1822 — an event that briefly drew Central America into the Mexican Empire before the region fractured into independent states the following year. Guatemala's inclusion in that empire was itself contested; the Act of Union of January 1822 was not unanimous, and several provinces actively resisted annexation.
Grove 34 is among the scarcer Iturbide proclamation issues, with surviving examples concentrated in a handful of institutional collections.