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Auction: 18005 - British and Foreign Coins and Commemorative Medals
Lot: 1017

Costa Rica (1849-57), countermark issue 2-Reales, struck over, Shilling, 1844, type A3, second head left, no ww, overstamp on neck, habilitada por el gobierno, lion, rev. value in crowned wreath (KM 94; cf. S.3904), a most unusual partial reverse brockage of the word one over the same within the coin's design, highly indicative of the later countermarking process, the host coin good fine, the countermark likewise

provenance
Purchased August 2009

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Sold for
£250