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2 Centavos Countermarked - Type 3
| Issuer | Honduras |
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| Year | 1912 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
| Reverse lettering | 2 |
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Honduras faced chronic small-change shortages through the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the countermarking program was a pragmatic response — existing foreign and domestic copper pieces were overstruck with official marks to legitimize them for continued circulation rather than strike entirely new coinage. Type 3 countermarks represent a later application of this practice, applied around 1912 to extend the usable life of coins already well into their circulation history.
KM#60 is poorly documented in terms of host coin populations, and attribution of specific host types remains inconsistent across major collections.