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8 Reales
| Issuer | Chile |
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| Year | 1830 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | A condor displayed with wings spread, facing left, standing upon a broken chain rendered in high relief at center of the field. The bird's plumage is rendered in fine engraved detail. The circular legend reads · POR LA RAZON Y LA FUERZA · around the upper periphery, with the fineness notation · 10 Ds 20 Gs · positioned along the lower arc. The border is composed of a uniform beaded ring. |
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| Obverse lettering | · POR LA RAZON Y LA FUERZA · 10 Ds 20 Gs |
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This is a copper pattern striking of the 8 Reales, produced at a moment when Chile's newly independent government was actively experimenting with coinage specifications and compositions. The KM#PnA3 designation confirms its pattern status — it was never adopted for circulation, likely losing out to the standard silver specification that the denomination demanded in trade.
Pattern coins from early Chilean republican issues are notoriously underrepresented in major collections, partly because institutional records from the Santiago mint in this period are fragmentary.