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| 裏面の銘文 | • HISPAN • ET IND •REX • NG • 2R • M • (Translation: King of Spain and the Indies Nueva Guatemala, 2 Reales M) |
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| 鋳造所 | Casa Nacional de Moneda de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (1828-1947). Host coins from various Spanish colonial mints, including Nueva Granada (NG), Guatemala City (G), and Mexico City (M). |
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| 追加情報 |
Costa Rica's monetary infrastructure in the early 1840s was almost entirely dependent on foreign silver circulating without official sanction. The solution was a countermarking campaign: existing Spanish colonial and Central American Federation reales were stamped with the national mark to legitimize them as domestic currency, sidestepping the expense of a full mint operation. The Casa Nacional de Moneda in Cartago handled the work.
Host coins vary considerably, and the countermark itself is often weakly applied — a direct consequence of the improvised nature of the program. Finding a specimen where both the host coin's type and the countermark are simultaneously clear is genuinely difficult.