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<p>[QUOTE="Clinker, post: 416323, member: 6229"]<font size="5">You probably know Spain ruled the Philippines from the time Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Islands on March 16, 1521 until it became a United States possession and you probably have a tinge of knowledge about its counterstruck/counterstamped " <b><i>necessity</i></b> coins:</font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5">Well this trivia (I hope) will reveal more data on those counterstruck/counterstamped <b><i>necessity </i></b>coins of the Philippines.</font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5">As a Spanish colony, Spanish coins from Spain and the Americas were the coinage of the realm for the Philippines.</font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5">In the early 1800s, as the voices of freedom reverberated through the colonies of the Americas, changes had to be made in the Philippines.</font></p><p> </p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="5">The republican coinages of Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru, became the commonly used coins of the Philippines. This new situation was a severe concern to Spain. With the loss of American lands, she was even more determined to retain this lucrative possession.</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Acceptance of this coinage would seem to imply an acknowledgement of legitimacy towards revolution. Or worse yet, the local authorities feared that exposure to so many objects bearing such seditious sentiments as "Liberty," or "For Virtue and Justice," might inflame the passions of rebellion among the natives of the Philippines. Thus Spanish officials decided that the legends and types of this imported currency should be obliterated by overstamping.</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">A decree to the effect, on October 13, 1828, by the Captain-General of the Philippines ordered such monies to be overstruck with the arms of Spain, along with the legend: "Habilitado por el Rey N.S.D.Fern.VII" (Rehabilatated by the King, our Lord, Don Fernando VII). Reverses would be stamped with "Manila" and the date. </font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Here's photos (courtesy Coin Archives) of three of those counterstruck coins:</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">This first example is the 183O countermark on a Bolivia 8 Soles Ferdinand VII: </font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="5">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=464768&AucID=344&Lot=3061</font></font></font></p><p><font size="5"><br /></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">This next example dates back to 1828 the year the decree was enacted. The counterstrike is on an 1826 JM Lima, Peru Mint 8 Reales:</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0000ff"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?L" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?L" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?L</a></span><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.phpLotLotID=524527&AucID=380&Lot=2111" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.phpLotLotID=524527&AucID=380&Lot=2111" rel="nofollow">otID=524527&AucID=380&Lot=2111</a></a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">This last example is dated 1828 and was counterstruck on an 1828 JM Peru 8 Reales:</font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=464768&AucID=344&Lot=3061</font></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">More changes were coming. The experiment, lasting from 1828-1830, proved to be mostly a failure. The overstamping never wholly erased the undertype, plus the procedure was found to be damaging to the mint machinery. In 1832, the program was re-instituted by employing different, much smaller counterstamps</font></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">. </font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Ferdinand's stamp was reduced to an incused circle bearing a crown above F. 7. degree sign.</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Here's five examples of the smaller Ferdinand stamp:</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450641&AucID=337&Lot=1656" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450641&AucID=337&Lot=1656" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450641&AucID=337&Lot=1656</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450643&AucID=337&Lot=1658" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450643&AucID=337&Lot=1658" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450643&AucID=337&Lot=1658</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450646&AucID=337&Lot=1661" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450646&AucID=337&Lot=1661" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450646&AucID=337&Lot=1661</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450647&AucID=337&Lot=1662" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450647&AucID=337&Lot=1662" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450647&AucID=337&Lot=1662</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450648&AucID=337&Lot=1663" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450648&AucID=337&Lot=1663" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450648&AucID=337&Lot=1663</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Since Isabel II ascended to the Spanish Throne in 1833 a new die was created. That die is also a circlular incuse featuring a crown above Y II symbolizing Isabel II.</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Here's an example with die being struck on an 1824 Mo JM Mexican 8 Reales:</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=524529&AucID=380&Lot=2113" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=524529&AucID=380&Lot=2113" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=524529&AucID=380&Lot=2113</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Following are three more examples:</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450649&AucID=337&Lot=1664" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450649&AucID=337&Lot=1664" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450649&AucID=337&Lot=1664</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450655&AucID=337&Lot=1670" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450655&AucID=337&Lot=1670" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450655&AucID=337&Lot=1670</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450659&AucID=337&Lot=1674" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450659&AucID=337&Lot=1674" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450659&AucID=337&Lot=1674</a></font></font></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Counterstamping was halted by decree in 1837, when Spain finally acknowledged the independence of her former colonies. Of all the counterstamped coins of the Philippines, those bearing the Manila types are the rarest, with those dated 1830 being extremely rare. </font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Did you enjoy this trivia?</font></font></p><p> </p><p><font size="5"><font face="Times New Roman">Clinker</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clinker, post: 416323, member: 6229"][SIZE=5]You probably know Spain ruled the Philippines from the time Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Islands on March 16, 1521 until it became a United States possession and you probably have a tinge of knowledge about its counterstruck/counterstamped " [B][I]necessity[/I][/B] coins:[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]Well this trivia (I hope) will reveal more data on those counterstruck/counterstamped [B][I]necessity [/I][/B]coins of the Philippines.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]As a Spanish colony, Spanish coins from Spain and the Americas were the coinage of the realm for the Philippines.[/SIZE] [SIZE=5]In the early 1800s, as the voices of freedom reverberated through the colonies of the Americas, changes had to be made in the Philippines.[/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5]The republican coinages of Mexico, Bolivia, and Peru, became the commonly used coins of the Philippines. This new situation was a severe concern to Spain. With the loss of American lands, she was even more determined to retain this lucrative possession.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Acceptance of this coinage would seem to imply an acknowledgement of legitimacy towards revolution. Or worse yet, the local authorities feared that exposure to so many objects bearing such seditious sentiments as "Liberty," or "For Virtue and Justice," might inflame the passions of rebellion among the natives of the Philippines. Thus Spanish officials decided that the legends and types of this imported currency should be obliterated by overstamping.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]A decree to the effect, on October 13, 1828, by the Captain-General of the Philippines ordered such monies to be overstruck with the arms of Spain, along with the legend: "Habilitado por el Rey N.S.D.Fern.VII" (Rehabilatated by the King, our Lord, Don Fernando VII). Reverses would be stamped with "Manila" and the date. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Here's photos (courtesy Coin Archives) of three of those counterstruck coins:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]This first example is the 183O countermark on a Bolivia 8 Soles Ferdinand VII: [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=5]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=464768&AucID=344&Lot=3061[/SIZE][/FONT] [/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]This next example dates back to 1828 the year the decree was enacted. The counterstrike is on an 1826 JM Lima, Peru Mint 8 Reales:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php"][COLOR=#0000ff][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?L[/URL][/COLOR][URL="http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.phpLotLotID=524527&AucID=380&Lot=2111"]otID=524527&AucID=380&Lot=2111[/URL][/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]This last example is dated 1828 and was counterstruck on an 1828 JM Peru 8 Reales:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=464768&AucID=344&Lot=3061[/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]More changes were coming. The experiment, lasting from 1828-1830, proved to be mostly a failure. The overstamping never wholly erased the undertype, plus the procedure was found to be damaging to the mint machinery. In 1832, the program was re-instituted by employing different, much smaller counterstamps[/FONT][/SIZE][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]. [/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Ferdinand's stamp was reduced to an incused circle bearing a crown above F. 7. degree sign.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Here's five examples of the smaller Ferdinand stamp:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450641&AucID=337&Lot=1656[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450643&AucID=337&Lot=1658[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450646&AucID=337&Lot=1661[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450647&AucID=337&Lot=1662[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450648&AucID=337&Lot=1663[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Since Isabel II ascended to the Spanish Throne in 1833 a new die was created. That die is also a circlular incuse featuring a crown above Y II symbolizing Isabel II.[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Here's an example with die being struck on an 1824 Mo JM Mexican 8 Reales:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=524529&AucID=380&Lot=2113[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Following are three more examples:[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450649&AucID=337&Lot=1664[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450655&AucID=337&Lot=1670[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman][URL]http://www.coinarchives.com/w/lotviewer.php?LotID=450659&AucID=337&Lot=1674[/URL][/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Counterstamping was halted by decree in 1837, when Spain finally acknowledged the independence of her former colonies. Of all the counterstamped coins of the Philippines, those bearing the Manila types are the rarest, with those dated 1830 being extremely rare. [/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Did you enjoy this trivia?[/FONT][/SIZE] [SIZE=5][FONT=Times New Roman]Clinker[/FONT][/SIZE][/QUOTE]
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