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1 Real Type VII Countermark
| Issuer | Government of Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1849-1857 |
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| Value | 1 Real |
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| Reverse description | The reverse of the host British silver coin features the denomination numeral within a wreath composed of oak and laurel branches, surmounted by a royal crown. The date 1834 appears in the exergue below the wreath. The field is plain and unadorned, with a fine milled border running along the coin's edge. |
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| Reverse lettering | PENCE 1834 |
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Costa Rica lacked a functioning mint for much of the mid-nineteenth century and relied heavily on countermarking foreign silver to legitimize it for domestic circulation. The Type VII punch — applied between 1849 and 1857 — was one of several successive countermark applications used to authenticate and re-authorize coins already in circulation, many of them Spanish colonial cobs or milled reales from Guatemala, Mexico, and elsewhere in the former empire. The host coin's origin matters considerably to collectors; the same countermark applied to different host types carries meaningfully different scarcity.