Auction Catalogue

28 September 2010

Starting at 10:00 AM

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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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Lot

№ 357 x

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28 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£300

Australia, MEXICO, Ferdinand VII, 8 Réales, 1818jj, Mexico City, converted into a matrix for a waistcoat button, with an offset circular piercing from which replica ‘Dumps’ were produced, 19.21g/296.4 gr (Spalding p.250, fig. 103). Good fine, seemingly very rare; two or three other specimens recorded £200-300

Provenance: Found in a junk box on a London street market, 1999; DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 485.

Philip Spalding writes in his book,
The World of the Holey Dollar (1973), that six Spanish-American dollars had circular segments removed in order to make replica dumps which were used as buttons for a gentleman’s waistcoat, c. 1860