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2 Reales Honduras
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Central America |
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| Year | 1825 |
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| Currency | Real (1824-1851) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicts the arms of the Federal Republic of Central America: five volcanic peaks rising from the sea, surmounted by a radiant sun above and flanked by two pillars, with a Liberty cap atop the central mountain. A small circular countermark or sun face appears to the left of the mountains. The peripheral legend REP.D.CENT.D.AMER. arcs around the upper field, with the date 1825 inscribed in the lower field beneath the central device. The coin exhibits a reeded border with a plain inner rim, and this example bears a post-mint hole near the upper field. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Federal Republic of Central America was barely two years old when this coin was struck, having declared independence from Mexico in 1823 after a brief and unhappy annexation under Agustín de Iturbide. The republic inherited Guatemala City's colonial mint and immediately faced the problem of establishing monetary credibility across five fractious provinces — Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica — that shared little beyond geography and mutual suspicion.
Honduras is specified as the issuing authority, though the physical striking almost certainly occurred at the Guatemala City mint, the only functioning facility in the federation at the time.