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| 表面の説明 | Type I Costa Rican countermark consisting of a radiant six-pointed star punched within a small circle of approximately 7 mm diameter, applied to the obverse of a Spanish colonial host coin. The host coin displays the laureate and draped bust of King Carlos IV facing right, surrounded by the royal titular legend in the field. A circular punch hole is present near the lower portion of the coin, characteristic of this emergency issue series. |
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| 裏面の文字体系 | Latin |
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Costa Rica's early monetary infrastructure was almost entirely dependent on foreign and colonial silver. Rather than strike original coinage, the newly independent state resorted to countermarking circulating Spanish colonial reales — the Type I punch being a rough, hand-applied mark applied at the Casa de Moneda in San José. The practice was born of necessity: the country lacked the capital and technical capacity for full-scale minting operations in its first decade of independence.
Type I countermarks are notoriously inconsistent in strike quality, a direct consequence of hand-punching onto already-circulated host coins of varying hardness and surface condition.