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

Martinique, Grenada-Martinique, Authority on Grenada July 1798, Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1771, Rio, obv. countermarked with incuse g thrice spaced around the circumference, then countermarked 20 above eagle raised within a shaped indent (authorised on Martinique September 1805, valued at 20 livres per gros), 11.60g/179.0 gr (cf. Gordon 107; cf. Prid. Grenada 19). Coin and countermarks very fine, extremely rare £4,000-5,000

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: S.A.H. Whetmore Collection, Glendining Auction, 24-5 March 1943, lot 241; R. Strauss Collection; bt A.P. de Clermont March 2000.

This is the only recorded specimen for Grenada without a countermark on the plug itself