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2 Reales Type IV Countermark
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1862-1863 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Host coin obverse featuring the bare-headed portrait bust of Rafael Carrera, President of Guatemala, facing left, with naturally styled hair and strong facial features. The encircling legend reads RAFAEL CARRERA PTE DE LA R. DE GUATEMALA within a beaded border. Applied over the lower portion of the bust is the El Salvador Type IV countermark: the letter R incuse within a small beaded circle of approximately 5 mm diameter, punched to validate the host coin for circulation. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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El Salvador had no functioning mint of its own in the early 1860s, so the government authorized countermarking foreign silver — predominantly Guatemalan and Bolivian reales — to validate them as legal tender. The Type IV punch, applied between 1862 and 1863, is distinguished from earlier Salvadoran countermark types by its specific die characteristics, though host coin identification matters considerably: the premium on any given example depends almost entirely on what it was struck on and where that host coin originated.