Barbados (General West Indies), Half-Dollar (valued at Three Shillings, Four Bitts), MEXICO, Charles III, a cut half segment of an 8 Réales, 1778ff, Mexico City, 12.24g/188.9 gr (Prid. 1 [Sale, lot 158]). Waterworn, otherwise about very fine £90-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins formed by the late Edward Roehrs.

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Provenance: Recovered from the wreck of the Hartwell, c. 1995; Ponterio & Associates Auction 81 (Long Beach), 1 June 1996, lot 1363.

The Hartwell, an British East Indiaman of 937 tonnes and carrying 26 guns, was lost on a reef off the Cape Verde Islands on 24 May 1787 after a mutiny by the crew on her maiden voyage outbound for China