2 Centavos Countermarked - Type 3

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.