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| 表面の説明 | Draped bust of King Carlos IIII facing right, with short hair and a ruffled collar, occupying the annular field surrounding the large octagonal central perforation. The circumferential legend reads CAROLUS IIII D, partially interrupted by the cutout. A toothed border frames the outer rim. The host coin is a Spanish colonial 8 Reales, with the date partially visible in the lower portion of the field. |
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| 裏面の説明 | The reverse displays the crowned globes-and-pillars design of the Spanish colonial 8 Reales, with two crowned hemispheres flanked by the Pillars of Hercules, all surrounding the large octagonal central perforation. The circumferential legend HISPAN ET IND REX is visible around the outer field, along with the mint mark and assayer initials partially legible. The crown above the central device is prominently rendered, with fine detail preserved in the annular field despite the alteration. |
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Trinidad's early colonial coinage was improvised currency born of chronic shortage. Spanish reales circulated widely in the Caribbean, but obtaining sufficient coin for everyday trade was a persistent problem — particularly after Britain seized Trinidad from Spain in 1797. The solution was to cut full 8-reales pieces into segments, then counterstamp them for official local use. The 9-bit denomination is a curiosity of arithmetic: at the prevailing rate of 11 bits to the dollar, the fractional values were calibrated to local commercial convention rather than any Spanish monetary unit.
The 1811 counterstamping authority was the colonial government under Governor Sir Ralph Woodford, appointed that same year.