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

St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Fourteen Stuivers (c. 1825), France, Louis XV, Quarter-Écu, 1728, obv. countermarked with a c raised within a shaped indent, and 14 raised within an elliptical indent, unrelated incuse countermarks of a ‘flower’ on obv. and rl dividing a leaf and a star on rev., 4.81g/74.2 gr (Scholten 1367, this coin; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin fair, countermarks better, extremely rare £400-600

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: G.F. Ulex Collection, Adolph Hess Auction (Frankfurt), 11-12 May 1908, lot 2527; bt J. Schulman 1966