Sierra Leone, Authority of March 1832, Quarter-Dollar (valued at Thirteen Pence), Ferdinand VII, a lightweight cut quarter-segment of a Spanish 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with crowned wr incuse, 7.16g (Vice FT 6; KM. 10). Coin fine, countermark very fine, very rare £800-£1,000

Provenance: ‘Marshall ‘Collection, Spink Auction 167, 31 March 2004, lot 679 [from Spink November 1942].

Although described by Vice as a ‘modern’ countermark Bob Lyall, the cataloguer of this coin at the time of the ‘Marshall’ sale in 2004, disagreed, as does the consignor