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8 Reales Type I Countermark
| Issuer | Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1841-1842 |
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| Diameter | 38.5 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ·HISPAN· ·IND·ET·REX· 8·GR·ES· |
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| Mint | Casa Nacional de Moneda de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (1828-1947) Mexican Mint (Casa de Moneda de México), Mexico, Mexico (1535-date) |
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| Additional information |
In 1841–1842, Costa Rica lacked the infrastructure to mint its own full coinage and instead counterstamped circulating Spanish colonial 8 reales — primarily Guatemalan and Mexican milled issues — to legitimize them as national currency. The Type I punch, applied under the authority of the nascent republic, is notoriously inconsistently struck; many examples show a partial or faint impression, a direct consequence of hand-applied dies and no standardized striking pressure.
KM#27 encompasses a wide range of host coin types, and the origin of the underlying 8 reales materially affects collector value. Guatemalan hosts are among the more frequently encountered; South American hosts, rarer.