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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 3893723, member: 102103&quot;]This coin is no longer in my possession--I gave it to my dad for his birthday, as he was born in Costa Rica.&nbsp; It looks like a 1923 counterstamp valuing the coin at 50 centimos over an 1892 25 centavos.&nbsp; I can&#039;t find much about this revaluation, nor can I find an entry for this type of counterstamp in my old (1995) Krause guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Looks like the 25 centavos was 6.25 g at .750 fine = 0.1507 oz ASW</p><p>The only silver coin I can find from after the introduction of the Colon in 1920 is the 1924 25 centimos, which was 3.4 g of .650 fine = .0721 oz ASW.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So it looks like 1 colon of 1923 was worth about half of 1 peso worth of silver from 1864-96.&nbsp; (The peso itself was a gold coin in that era.)&nbsp; It must have been a moving target due to high inflation or something, as none of the Colon coins seem to have been made of silver after 1924, until some commemorative stuff around 1970.</p><p><br /></p><p>Can anyone enlighten my as to why this revaluation took place and why these coins were counterstamped?&nbsp; Thanks!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1026997[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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