Trying to downgrade from Mavericks: "10.8 already installed"

I would like to get 10.9 Mavericks off my Mac Mini, purchased September 2012. Installing Mavericks replaced my restore partition, so I only have the option to restore POS X 10.9.
I bought 10.7 Lion long ago, but when I try to download it in the App Store, I get this warning: "OS X 10.8 is already installed on this computer. Are you sure you want to download OS X 10.7?"
And indeed, I see my product has been identified below as "Mac mini, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)." But I most definitely have POS X 10.9 installed.
Is 10.8 really still installed, or is this just Apple sloppiness?
If so how do I access it? (It is not available as a boot option.)

dr_box wrote:
Do you have any other partitions on your internal drive with OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) installed? I see three when I boot with Command-R: main, Linux, and Mavericks restore. In Disk Utility, I see my main partition, disk0s4 "Format: Bios Boot Partition", disk0s6 "Format: Linux Swap", and disk0s8 "Partition Type : 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79".
What OS X did your Mac Mini come pre-installed with? OS X Lion? Mountain Lion? Mavericks? Purchased September 2012, presumably Mountain Lion.
I have no idea what your Mavericks restore partition is, but is that what you want to remove/overwrite with a Mountain Lion one? When say your 'restore partition' are you referring to the Recovery HD? If so, yes, installing OS X Mavericks would have replaced your OS X Mountain Lion Recovery HD (10.8.2) with Maverick's.
Since you're not sure what your system came pre-installed with, restart using Command+Option+R (Internet Recovery) until you see a spinning globe. This boots to Apple's server and their Recovery HD. From the OS X Utilities Menu, you will see an OS X logo next to Reinstall OS X. This should tell you what was pre-installed.

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