Reales issues of the Oaxaca mint
Silver
Four reales
Diameter 32 mm. 13.540 g, 0.90277 silver
Usually the edge design of the four reales is referred to as ornamental, but there are two exceptions, with this Oaxaca mint.
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1861 | FR | Diagonally milled edge | |
| 1861 | FR | Herringbone edge | |
| 1861 | FR | Ornamented edge |
KM-375.5 4r 1861 O FR oblique edge reeding (Stack’s-Bowers auction, 26 August 2022, lot 34179)
Variety with oblique edge reeding.
KM-375.7 4r 1861 O FR herringbone edge. (Stack’s-Bowers Kirk Menczer Collection,24 June 2026, lot 73262)
Variety with herringbone edge.
KM-375.7 4r 1861 O FR normal edge (Ponterio Baltimore auction, 28 March 2011, lot 8389)
Normal edge.
Eight reales
KM-377.11 8r 1858 Oa AE
Diameter 39 mm. 27.070 g, 0.90277 silver
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1858 | AE | The Oaxaca mint began producing 8 reales in 1858 with a curious monogram: a lower case “a” inside the “O”. All references describe this coin as unique, and the known example comes from the Hubbard/McCormick collections. (illustrated above). For a discussion of the dies used from 1858 to 1863, see here. | |
| 1858 | AE | O mintmark | |
| 1859 | AE | illustrated below | |
| 1860 | AE | illustrated below | |
| 1861 | FR | O mintmark. For a further discission of the 1861-1864 8 reales, see here. | |
| 1861 | FR | ||
| 1862 | FR | O mintmark | |
| 1862 | FR | ||
| 1863 | FR | O mintmark | |
| 1863 | AE | ||
| 1864 | FR | O mintmark (illustrated below) | |
| 1865 | AE | O mintmark | |
| 1867 | AE | O mintmark | |
| 1868 | AE | O mintmark | |
| 1869 | AE | O mintmark | |
| 1870 | AE | for a discussion on this coin, see here | |
| 1873 | AE | ||
| 1874 | AE | 142,000 | |
| 1875/4 | AE | 131,000 | |
| 1875 | AE | ||
| 1876 | AE | 140,000 | |
| 1877 | AE | 139,000 | |
| 1878 | AE | 125,000 | |
| 1879 | AE | 153,000 | |
| 1880 | AE | 143,000 | |
| 1881 | AE | 134,000 | |
| 1882 | AE | 100,000 | |
| 1883 | AE | 122,000 | |
| 1884 | AE | 142,000 | |
| 1885 | AE | 158,000 | |
| 1886 | AE | 120,000 | |
| 1887/6 | AE | 115,000 | |
| 1887 | AE | ||
| 1888 | AE | 145,000 | |
| 1889 | AE | 150,000 | |
| 1890 | AE | 181,000 | |
| 1891 | EN | 160,000 | |
| 1892 | EN | 120,000 | |
| 1893 | EN | 66,000 |
KM-377.11 8r 1859 O AE (Stack’s-Bowers auction, 23 October 2025, lot 73052)
Eagle of 1858-59, featuring the cruder, larger eagle design. A die crack characteristic of the 1859 design runs through the obverse design, while the planchet exhibits the overall crudeness expected for the date.
KM-377.11 8r 1860 O AE (Stack’s-Bowers auction, 17 August 2014, lot 44198}
Eagle of 1859-1860
KM-377.11 8r 1864 O FR (Stack’s-Bowers Macau auction, December 2014, lot 30103)
Gold
Four escudos
diameter 30 mm. 13.540 g. 0.8750 gold
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1861 | FR |
Eight escudos
KM-383.10 8E 1861 O FR (Stack’s Bowers auction, 6 August 2020, lot 21475)
Diameter 37 mm. 27.070 g. 0.8750 gold
| Date | Asssayer | Recorded Mintage |
Comment |
| 1860 | AE | ||
| 1861 | FR | ||
| 1862 | FR | ||
| 1863 | FR | ||
| 1864 | FR | ||
| 1867 | AE | ||
| 1868 | AE | ||
| 1869 | AE |