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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№ 280 x

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28 September 2010

Hammer Price:
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St. Vincent, ——— Nine Bitts, MEXICO, Charles III, 4 Réales, 1783ff, Mexico City, obv. countermarked s/ix raised within a shaped indent, 13.44g/207.4 gr (Prid. 11 [Sale, lot 350]; KM. 11). Scratches in obverse field, otherwise about very fine, countermark better but a modern copy £200-300

Provenance: H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1842; D.F. Spink Collection, Spink Auction 50, 6-7 March 1986, lot 209.

Four specimens are known:
1) 1772, ex H.D. Gibbs (private sale), R.A. Byrne lot 1093
2) 1779, ex F. Pridmore, lot 350, Spink Auction 78, lot 813
3) 1781, ex R.C. Gordon, lot 113
4) 1783, the present piece.

The true status of these pieces, as modern fakes, was exposed by P.D. Mitchell and R. Lyall at the time the Gordon collection was catalogued for sale (see the extensive note to lot 113 in that collection)

Withdrawn