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Type:Spain. ca. 1600 8 Maravedis
Heavily counterstamped (including one dated 1659) obliterating most of the original design, save parts of the shields.
                              
 
Obverse Legend:FT
Reverse Legend:XXXII
Counterstamps over a very very worn halfpenny?
                              
 
Type:War of Independence/Oaxaca. 1813 Sud
Reference:KM-265.4
Morelos monogram counterstamp on KM-233.4.
                              
 
Type:Elberfeld. 1817 Bread token.
Worth 1 loaf of bread during the Elberfeld famine. Counterstamped G.LD.
                              
 
Type:Guatemala. 1894 1/2 Real
Reference:KM-224
Struck over an 1888 Peru 1 Sol.
                              
 
Type:Meiji 27 (1894) 1 Yen
Reference:Q23, A25.3
Chopmarks and countermarks. Gin countermark (in the circle) on left reverse added by the Osaka mint.
                              
 
Type:1923 50 Centimos
Reference:KM-159
Struck over an 1889 Costa Rica 25 Centavos.
                              
 
Type:1923 1 Colon
Reference:KM-164
Struck over a 1903 Costa Rica 50 Centimos.
                              
 


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