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60 Réis - Luis I Countermark 'CROWNED G.P.' over 1/2 Real - Carlos III, Mexico
| Issuer | Azores |
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| Year | 1887 |
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| Value | 60 Réis |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays the crowned royal arms of the Spanish Colonial coinage of Carlos III, as struck at the Mexico City Mint. The central design features the crowned pillars of Hercules flanking the crowned shield of Castile and León, all enclosed within a beaded border. The heraldic shield, though worn and partially obscured by age and patina, retains the characteristic quartered design of Bourbon Spain. The surrounding legend, '·HISPAN·ET IND·R·M·F·M·', identifying the coin as struck for the Spanish dominions in the name of Carlos III, runs along the periphery. The mint mark 'M' for Mexico City and the assayer's initials are visible within the legend. |
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The "Crowned G.P." countermark program of 1887 was Portugal's solution to a chronic small-change shortage in the Azores, authorizing the revalidation of worn Spanish colonial half reales — pieces already decades old and long demonetized on the mainland — for continued circulation in the islands. Carlos III of Spain died in 1788, meaning the host coins entering this program were already a century old at the time of countermarking. That gap between original striking and official revalidation is unusually wide even by the loose standards of 19th-century Portuguese colonial monetary improvisation.