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.
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.
