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

Curaçao, British Administration, Authority of September 1814, Twenty-One Stuivers (valued at Three-and-a-Half Reaals), MEXICO, a cut quarter segment of an 8 Réales, [——]6, Mexico City, with crenated edges, rev. countermarked with five-petal rosace raised within a circular indent (c. 1800 under Dutch Administration ‘Guillotine’) and 21 raised within an oval indent, 6.66g/102.7 gr (Scholten 1369; Prid. 2 [Sale, lot 423]; KM. 16). Coin and countermarks good fine, extremely rare £2,500-3,000

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: Col E.H.R. Green Collection; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1345