5 Réis - Pedro II Countermarked 10 Réis with star CEARÁ

Features

Issuer Brazil
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1834
Value 5 Réis
Currency Real (1799-1942)
Composition Copper
Weight 3.59 g
Diameter 25 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
124739
References KM# 395
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Coins / 2001-Date (14th edition). Krause Publications, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, United States.
And 5 more volumes.

Obverse

Five-pointed star with five-pointed star, with one of the letters of the word CEARÁ at each end.
In the center is a small five-pointed star, a five-petal florid or an irregular pentagon.

Lettering: CEARÁ

Translation: CEARÁ

Edge

Smooth

Comments

In view of the large number of counterfeit copper coins, the Government of the Province of Ceará, obeying the law, collected in 1834 the copper coins in circulation, intending to eliminate illegal coins. There was a lack of division coins in the trade.
In 1834, the president of the Province of Ceará officiated the National Treasury, noting that the coins collected in the previous year were re-circulated, but countersigned in the shape of a five-pointed star with one of the letters word CEARÁ; being that in the center of this star, there is another star smaller of five points, a five-petal florion or irregular pentagon.


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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1834) 

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