Curaçao, Authority of J.K. Lauffer, 1799-1803, Eighteen Stuivers ‘Guillotine’ (valued at Three Reaals, c. 1800), a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with crenated edges, rev. countermarked with five-petal rosace raised within a circular indent, 6.67g/102.9gr (Scholten 1368a; Prid. p.251, fig. 25 [Sale, lot 421]; KM. 7). Coin and countermark about very fine, very rare £500-700

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: ‘Bostonian Collection’, Bank Leu Auktion 51, 24-6 October 1990, lot 950