Auction Catalogue

24 September 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Important British and World Coins including Important Irish Coins from a Private Collection (Part II)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 4588

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24 September 2008

Estimate: £3,000–£4,000

Brazil, John V, Peça of 6,400 Réis, 1733m, Minas Gerais (Gomes 57.04; KM. 135; F 56). Spademark across head and graze in reverse field between 8 and 9 o’clock, otherwise fine to very fine, extremely rare, very few specimens known (£3,000-4,000)

Provenance:
Found in Dorset 2006.

Further described by Peter Spencer in The Searcher, June 2006, p.46. No example in the Renzo Pagliari collection (Spink Auction 52)