Dominica, Eleven Bitt Dollar (value Eight Shillings and Threepence, revalued from 10 Bitts in September 1798), a Mexico, Philip V, 8 Réales, 1744mf, Mexico City, centrally pierced with a heart-shaped hole with a patterned border on both sides [type IV], 21.27g (Prid. 16 [Sale, lot 284]; KM. 20). Fair to fine, very rare (£1,000-1,500)

For this and the following lot see ‘Gibraltar Hearts’, by Bob Lyall, SNC December 2007 and February 2008, which identifies Gibraltar as the colony of origin for the type I and II heart shaped piercings, but considers the type IV to have originated in Dominica