Coins
From 1802, copper ⅛ and ¼ real coins were issued. Silver 1 and 2 reales followed in 1810. In 1812, the Republican government issued copper ⅛ and ¼ real and silver ½ and 1 real. From 1813, the provinces of Guayana and Maracaibo issued copper ⅛ and ¼ real coins. The Royalists issued silver 1, 2 and 4 reales between 1817 and 1821. During the period Venezuela was part of Gran Colombia, silver ¼ real coins were struck at Caracas.
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Famous quotes containing the word coins:
“A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“No Time, spoke the clocks, no God, rang the bells,
I drew the white sheet over the islands
And the coins on my eyelids sang like shells.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)