Now that I have clipped and processed the complete batch of 2 pesos late stamps I had mounted on pages, it's time to take a much more in-depth look to this variety, or family of varieties. I do not know if it is progressive-i.e. that it's one plate position that progressively got more scratches, or several plate poisitions that share one major scratch and have other scratches that differ. I am leaning towards the latter, but I simply do not know.
I see the following three plate varieties:
1. Only the long horizontal scratch above the midpoint across the left side frame.
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2. The long horizontal scratch above the midpoint across the left side frame combined with two additional scratches: a vertical scrtach in the blue field aligned the R and the E of REPUBLICA, and a diagonal scratch between what look like an orange and a pepper.