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1/2 Dollar Countermark on 1/3-cut Spanish or Spanish Colonial 8 Reales, with plug
| Issuer | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
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| Year | 1797 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#4.2 |
| Obverse description | The obverse of this cut and countermarked piece bears three crowned 'SV' monogram punches — representing Saint Vincent — applied in a triangular arrangement across the irregular surface of the one-third segment cut from a Spanish or Spanish Colonial 8 Reales host coin. Each countermark is struck within a shaped punch and displays the royal crown surmounting the conjoined initials 'S' and 'V'. A silver plug, inserted to bring the piece to the correct tariffed weight for circulation, is visible within the field and disrupts the partially discernible underlying host coin design. Residual design elements of the host 8 Reales remain faintly visible in the field between the applied countermarks. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse retains the original design of the host Spanish or Spanish Colonial 8 Reales, preserved only in part across the irregular field of the one-third segment cut. Depending on the host coin's origin and date, the crowned royal arms, pillars-and-waves device, or other dynastic motifs of the Spanish colonial coinage may be partially discernible within the cut surface. The silver plug inserted to correct the weight to the colonial tariffed standard is visible on this face and interrupts the host coin's original design. The cut edges are irregular and consistent with the manual sectioning practice common to Caribbean countermarked currency of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. |
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| Mintage | 1797: ND (1797) |
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