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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№ 301 x

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28 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£550

Tobago, ——— Moco or One-and-a-Half Bitts (value One Shillling and Three-Halfpence), a circular segment from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with 14 crenations, oneside stamped with a script t radiate, 3.59g/55.4 gr (Prid. 2 [cf. Sale, lot 368]; KM. 9). About very fine and very rare £700-900

Provenance: J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 125