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

Martinique, Guadeloupe-Martinique, Authority on Guadeloupe April 1803, Twenty-Livres per gros, Brazil, Maria I and Peter III, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1788, Rio, a base gold plug removed by authorities on Guadeloupe, then obv. countermarked 20 above an eagle raised within a shaped indent (authorised on Martinique September 1805, also for Twenty Livres per gros), then countermarked with a script b raied within a shaped indent (designated ‘West Indies Script B’ by Gordon to differentiate from stamps on gold coins regulated in New York), 9.82g/151.5 gr (Gordon 307, this coin). Coin about fine, countermarks fine or better, 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.J. Ford Collection; R.C. Gordon Collection [from R.J.F.]; bt R.C.G.