Auction Catalogue

28 September 2010

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The Roehrs Collection of West Indies Cut and Countermarked Coins (Part I)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 67 x

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28 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£190

Virgin Islands – Tortola, ——— Quarter-Dollar, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked tirtila raised within a shaped indent, 5.61g/86.6 gr (Prid. 13; Pridmore, SNC September 1974, type III [Sale, lot 195]; KM. 18). Coin worn smooth, countermark very fine £120-150

Provenance: H. Wells Collection, Paul Bosco Auction (New York), 4 August 1997, lot 270