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11/2 Réis - Pedro V Countermark 'Small Crown' over 1 1/2 Real, Portugal/João IV
| Issuer | São Tomé and Príncipe |
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| Year | 1854 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1854) - Over 1 1/2 Reis - João IV/Portugal |
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Portugal's Atlantic island colonies regularly ran short of small change, and rather than ship freshly minted coin from Lisbon, the standard remedy was to countermark whatever copper happened to be available locally. This piece began life as a João IV 1½ Real — a seventeenth-century Portuguese colonial issue — and was officially revalidated for circulation in São Tomé and Príncipe under Pedro V's 1854 countermarking program, effectively giving a coin that was already two centuries old a second legal existence.
The small crown punch distinguishes this emission from related countermark types in the Gomes reference, and correct attribution hinges entirely on the host coin beneath it.