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

St. Vincent, Authority of August 1798, Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1761 Rio, with a collar added around the edge of the coin, obv. countermarked s raised within a square indent thrice spaced around the circumference and a small incuse t, central plug uncountermarked, 11.67g/180.1 gr (cf. Gordon 10). Coin fine or better, part of collared edge heavily clipped, countermarks very fine, 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: J.C. Rovensky Collection, B. Max Mehl Mailbid Sale, 30 November 1954 (2140); J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 243.

See R. Lyall, West Indies Coinage – Some New Discoveries (Spink, 1998) for contemporary accounts of ‘ringed Joes’. This specimen is the only known example that explains this feature