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

St. Vincent, ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1767, Rio, obv. countermarked gh raised within a shaped indent on a central plug and s raised within a square indent thrice around the edge, 11.60g/179.0 gr (Gordon 12, this coin; Prid. 8, this coin; KM. 6). Edge lightly clipped, otherwise coin and 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. Meili Collection, Jacques Schulman Auction (Amsterdam), 23 May 1910, lot 2209; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1827; D.F. Spink Collection, Spink Auction 50, 6-7 March 1986, lot 205