½ Dollar Counterstamped

Features

Issuer Puerto Rico
King Alfonso XII (1874-1885)
Type Standard circulation coin
Year 1884
Value ½ Dollar
Currency Countermarked coinage (fleur-de-lys, 1884-1894)
Composition Silver (.900)
Weight 13.36 g
Diameter 30.6 mm
Shape Round
Orientation Coin alignment ↑↓
Demonetized 1894
Number
N#
25330
References KM# 10
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

Countermark on U.S. Seated Liberty ½ dollar, KM#68.

Script: Latin

Lettering: 1846

Engraver: Christian Gobrecht

Reverse

American eagle.Automatically translated

Script: Latin

Lettering:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
O
HALF DOL.

Engraver: Christian Gobrecht

Edge

Reeded

Mints

United States Mint of Philadelphia, United States (1792-date)
O United States Mint of New Orleans, United States (1835-1942)
S United States Mint of San Francisco, United States (1854-date)

Comments

Following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the island came under American rule as an associated state, not included in the states forming the union (USA), and remains so to this day.
Hence the use of countermarks.Automatically translated

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Date VG F VF XF AU UNC
ND (1884)  Host Date 1839-1866

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