Trial Strike 1 Peso

Trial strikes from the Casa de Moneda de Chile exist in a murky documentary space — produced to test dies, planchet specifications, or metal composition before a series enters production, they were never intended for release and rarely entered official records with any precision. Whether this piece represents a planchet weight test, a die trial, or a rejected compositional proposal is almost impossible to determine without accompanying mint documentation, which seldom survived Chile's periodic administrative upheavals.