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8 Reales Type V Counterstamp
| Issuer | Casa Nacional de Moneda de Costa Rica |
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| Year | 1846 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | Circular counterstamp of 14 mm diameter applied to the host cob coin, depicting a radiant sun rising above a range of mountains within a beaded inner circle. The surrounding legend reads REPUB. DE CENT. DE AMER. with the date 1846, referencing the Central American Republic. The design is characteristic of the provisional counterstamp coinage authorized by Costa Rica to validate circulating Spanish colonial and South American cob coinage for domestic use. |
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| Obverse lettering | REPUB. DE CENT. DE AMER. 1846 (Translation: Central American Republic 1846) |
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| Mint | Casa Nacional de Moneda de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica (1828-1947); host planchet from Potosí Mint, Bolivia (1572-1953) |
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