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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№ 219 x

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28 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,550

Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1765, Rio, obv. countermarked t·d once raised within a rectangular indent on a very large crude central base gold plug and twice near the edge, very slightly over the Leeward Island weight standard, 11.05g/170.5 gr/7.10 dwt (Gordon 216b, this coin; Prid. Not Attributed 15, this coin). Coin about fine and heavily clipped round the edge, countermarks fine, extremely rare £2,000-2,500

Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction (Los Angeles), 13-15 June 1975, lot 1208