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3 Reaal / 18 Stuiver British Occupation, Countermark 3 with short tail

Issuer Curaçao
Year 1814
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Value 3 Reaal
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Obverse lettering 3
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Mintage 1814: ND (1814)
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During the Napoleonic Wars, Britain occupied Curaçao from 1807 to 1816 after the island's Dutch Batavian administrators effectively surrendered it without a fight. The chronic shortage of small silver on the island forced British authorities into a practice common across their Caribbean possessions: countermarking foreign coins already in circulation to give them official local currency status. This particular piece received a crowned "3" punch authorizing it to circulate at 3 Reaal or 18 Stuiver within the island economy.

The "short tail" variety distinguishes this from the more frequently encountered long-tail crown countermark — a die difference, not a date difference. CNO#60.3 is the scarcer of the two.

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