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1 Real - Carlos IV
| Issuer | Casa de Moneda de México |
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| Year | 1792-1808 |
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| Thickness | 1 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLUS·IIII·DEI·GRATIA ·1803· (Translation: Carlos 4th by the grace of God) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlos IV inherited the Spanish throne in 1788 and almost immediately faced the financial strain of wars with Revolutionary and later Napoleonic France, pressures that pushed colonial mints like Mexico City into sustained high-output production throughout his reign. The 1 Real denomination was the workhorse of everyday colonial commerce — small enough for routine transactions, silver enough to be trusted.
KM#81 was struck under the assayer marks of FM (Francisco Arance Cobos and Manuel García Junquito) and FT, the latter pairing active only briefly. Attributing a specific example to a given year within this sixteen-year run depends entirely on reading those assayer initials correctly.