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Guadeloupe, French Administration, Authority of April 1804, Twenty-Two Livres per gros, Brazil, Maria I and Peter III, 6,400 Réis, 1784, Rio, obv. countermarked 22.≠ bearded head raised within a rectangular indent, 14.26g/220.1 gr (Gordon 16b, this coin; Prid. p.229, fig. 20; KM. 5). Coin and countermark very fine or better but traces of mount on the edge, of the highest rarity £5,000-6,000
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: R.C. Gordon Collection, Baldwin Auction 8, 7 October 1996, lot 198
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