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

USA, Colonial New York, viceroyalty of peru, Philip IV, cob 8 Réales, Potosí, assayer e [1652-65], with a large plug, 25.79g/398.0 gr (Sedwick P37a; KM. 21). Significant flan split and an attempted piercing, perhaps for another plug, otherwise about fine, extremely rare £700-900

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: Recovered from the wreck of HMS Feversham, early 1990s; Ponterio & Associates Auction 67, 5 February 1994, lot 1215