2 Centavos countermarked - Type 3

Honduras faced chronic small-change shortages throughout the 1880s, and rather than strike entirely new coinage, authorities countermarked existing copper stock to revalidate or redenominate pieces already in circulation. The Type 3 countermark designation distinguishes this application from at least two earlier punch varieties used on the same host coins — a detail that points to multiple separate authorization events, not a single systematic recoinage.

KM#56 is sparsely documented, and attributing the precise host coin with confidence requires examining the underlying type beneath the countermark.