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4 Reales Type IV Countermark
| Issuer | El Salvador |
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| Year | 1862-1863 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Reverse description | Central design features the arms of Guatemala: a shield bearing a quetzal bird perched on a scroll above mountains, flanked by two crossed rifles and two crossed swords below, with laurel and oak branches on either side tied by ribbons inscribed GUATEMALA and PROTECCION respectively. Above the shield radiates a rising sun with straight and wavy rays. The denomination CUATRO RLES appears along the lower rim, with the fineness L. 10·20s to the left and the date 1860 and assayer initial R. to the right, all within a dentilated border. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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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 — punched onto host coins already in use — reflects the government's repeated attempts to assert control over a currency supply it could not independently produce. The host coins are typically Guatemalan or South American republican reales of varying fineness, which made the .903 standard a statement of intent as much as a technical specification.