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2 Reales Type V Counterstamp
| Issuer | Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1846 |
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| Diameter | 27 mm |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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| Mintage | 1846 - Host date: 1821 |
| Additional information |
Costa Rica lacked a functioning mint through much of the early republican period and relied heavily on counterstamping foreign silver coinage — primarily Spanish colonial cobs and milled reales — to legitimize their circulation domestically. The Type V counterstamp applied to this piece represents one of several successive punch types used as the government attempted to regulate a monetary supply it could not physically produce itself.
The KM# 89 classification covers a host coin range that varies considerably; the underlying piece matters as much as the stamp for a complete assessment.