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3 Real Countermark 3 in square
| Issuer | Curaçao |
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| Currency | Colonial Real (1799-1828) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Reverse of the Spanish host coin, displaying the design associated with a 2 reales or peseta denomination, now partially obscured or displaced by the applied countermark on the obverse side. The field retains the original milled Spanish coinage detail, though worn and partially effaced, with no additional countermark impression visible on this face. |
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During the Napoleonic Wars, Curaçao changed hands repeatedly between the Dutch and the British, creating chronic shortages of fractional silver. The colonial administration resorted to countermarking foreign coins — predominantly Spanish and Spanish colonial reales — to authorize them for local circulation at revalued denominations. The punched square containing the numeral 3 is the authentication mark, applied to certify both the coin's legitimacy and its assigned value within the island's constrained monetary supply.
Scholt's listing in volume II without a corresponding entry in volume I suggests later documentary recognition of the type.