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

ESSEQUIBO & DEMERARA, Authority of August 1798, Twenty-Two Guilders, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1766, Rio, obv. countermarked with script ed raised within an oval indent, 10.43g/160.9 gr (Gordon 13a, this coin; Prid. 1; KM. 3, this coin noted). Coin very fine but edge lightly clipped and traces of mounting, countermark extremely 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.W. Garrett Collection, Part I, NFA/Bank Leu Auction (Beverly Hills), 16-18 May 1984, lot 1219 [from J. Schulman April 1927]