Scotland, RENFREWSHIRE, Greenock, a Mexico, Charles III, 8 Réales, 1780ff, Mexico City, obv. countermarked mcfie lindsay & coy * greenock * around 4/6, 26.82g/12h (Manville 57, and p.112, this coin listed). Coin very fine, countermark better £900-1,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Countermarked Dollars, Property of the late Lt.-Cdr W. E. McLaughlin.

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Provenance: with A. Almanzar 1972; bt Baldwin.

McFie, Lindsay & Co, wholesale grocers, 3 William street, fl. 1815-34; their countermarked dollars were withdrawn during August 1828