Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
6 Shillings 8 Pence - George II FERDIND VI D G HISPAN ET IND REX, Guatemala City, countermarked
| Issuer | Jamaica |
|---|---|
| Year | 1758 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | 6 Shillings 8 Pence = 8 Reales |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Reeded |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Jamaica's chronic shortage of small change throughout the mid-eighteenth century forced colonial administrators into improvised solutions. This piece is a Spanish colonial eight-reales — struck at the Guatemala City mint for Ferdinand VI of Spain — that was officially countermarked by Jamaican authorities and given a fixed tariff value of six shillings and eightpence for local circulation. The countermark effectively conscripted foreign silver into British colonial currency without the expense of a dedicated mint.
KM#8.1 distinguishes this Guatemala City host from countermarked examples on Mexican or Lima planchets, which circulate under separate catalog numbers and command different premiums depending on host coin quality.