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2 Reales Type IV Countermark
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1862-1863 |
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| Value | 2 Reales |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DOS Rs. L.10.20.G. 1862 |
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El Salvador had no mint of its own in the early 1860s and relied heavily on countermarking foreign silver to legitimize it for domestic circulation. This Type IV application — a small punched mark — was applied to South American colonial and early republican 2 reales pieces already in circulation, effectively nationalizing foreign coinage by government decree rather than by striking new coin.
The countermarking program ran against a chaotic regional monetary backdrop, with Central American states competing and cooperating in overlapping currency arrangements following the collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America in 1839.