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Costa Rica, 50 centimos, 1923 counterstamp (Type VIII) on a Costa Rica 25 centavos, 1864 GW, small 2

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Costa Rica, 50 centimos, 1923 counterstamp (Type VIII) on a Costa Rica 25 centavos, 1864 GW, small 2
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Costa Rica, 50 centimos, 1923 counterstamp (Type VIII) on a Costa Rica 25 centavos, 1864 GW, small 25 Cs, very rare, NGC VG 10, c/s VF standard. KM-156. Very rare host (effectively a one-year type with small denomination flanking tree), with very light rainbow toning over luster but obviously worn, dark pit (flan flaw) in wreath, fairly bold countermark. An important coin for the Costa Rica specialist, the first of its kind we have seen, probably even rarer than the 1850-host type that has come around in the past decade, the great majority of these counterstamps being on the Heaton-mint type from the 1890s.
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