8 reales, minted in silver.
Reverse: Seal of the Constitutional General Assembly of the Year 1813 with an azure chief that occupies half the shield (barry), with hands clasped holding a pike with a Phrygian cap overhanged to the left, surrounded by a laurel wreath with 6 leaves on each side. Outside the shield number “8” to the left and letter “R” to the right. On the perimeter legend you can read “EN UNION Y LIBERTAD. RA. P.1831” (“IN UNION AND LIBERTY. RA. P.1831”). Coin reverse. Laureate edge. Doubled die number “1” over “0”.
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