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St. Vincent, Authority of July 1814, Four-and-a-Half Bitts (valued at Three Shillings and Fourpence-Halfpenny), MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 2 Réales, 1754m, Mexico City, rev. countermarked s/iv½/b raised within a shaped indent, 6.43g/99.2 gr (cf. Prid. 13 [cf. Sale, lot 352]; KM. 9.1). Coin fine, countermark very fine, extremely rare on a pillar type 2 Réales £500-700
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
Prince Edward Island, ——— Holey Dollar, MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1804th, Mexico City, centrally pierced, obv. countermarked with a crude incuse 10 or 11-point sunburst, b stamped twice into the field along with a further unidentified stamp, 21.99g/339.3 gr (Graham p.24; Pridmore, SNC November 1960, fig. 2, this coin; cf. KM 2.1). A contemporary forgery, about fine but harshly cleaned, rare £300-500
Prince Edward Island, ——— Holey Dollar, SPAIN, Joseph Napoleon, 20 Réales, 1810ai, Madrid, centrally pierced, 21.16g/326.5 gr (Graham p.24; Faulkner fig. 10, this coin). An unofficial issue, fine, rare £300-400
Hammer Price: £580
Dominica, Authority of September 1798, Eleven Bitt Dollar (valued at Eight Shillings and Threepence), MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Reales, 1791fm, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the rev. with a circular hole of 15 crenations, 23.21g/358.2 gr (Prid. 21 [Sale, lot 288]; KM. 3.3). Very fine, rare £500-700
Double Island Issues, Martinique-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a Martinique ‘Moco’, c. 1797, cut from a Charles IIII, Spanish-American 8 Réales, with crenated edges, obv. countermarked tortola raised within a retangular indent [type IV/a], 7.41g/114.3 gr (Prid. 36, this coin [Sale, lot 228, this coin]). Coin fine, countermarks very fine, very rare £400-500
Hammer Price: £600
St. Lucia, ——— Six Escalins, previously Four Escalins, Charles III, a lightweight cut half segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. and rev. countermarked with a large incuse annulet (for a valuation of 4 Escalins), then obv. unofficially countermarked with sl monogram thrice raised within a rectangular indent with serrated edges (to unoffically raise the value to 6 Escalins), the central sl countermark placed to obliterate the incuse annulet on the obv., 10.16g/156.8 gr (cf....
Hammer Price: £620
St. Lucia, ——— Three Escalins, Charles IIII, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with sl monogram three times raised within a rectangular indent with serrated edges, 6.00g/92.6 gr (Prid. 3 [Sale, lot 311]; VG 8; KM. 2). Coin and countermarks fine, very rare £300-400
Curaçao, ——— Eighteen Stuivers ‘Guillotine’ (valued at Three Reaals), MEXICO, Charles IIII, a cut quarter segment of an 8 Réales, 1792fm, Mexico City, with crenated edges, rev. countermarked with five-petal rosace raised within a circular indent, 6.53g/100.8 gr (Scholten 1368a; Prid. p.251. fig. 25 [Sale, lot 421]; KM. 7). Coin and countermark very fine, very rare £1,200-1,500
USA, Colonial New York, viceroyalty of peru, temp. Philip IV, cob 4 Réales, Potosí, with a small but pronounced plug, 11.86g/183.0 gr (cf. KM. 17ff). Coin fair but no trace of any legend, extremely rare £300-400
Double Island Issues, Montserrat-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a lightweight cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with m thrice raised within a square indent, and tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b, late die state], rev. countermarked with Montserrat design raised within a shaped indent (partly worn away after Tortola countermark applied), 4.56g/70.4 gr (Prid. 43 [Sale, lot 237]). Coin worn and cut down in size, removing nearly all of one of the m...
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Seven Stuivers (c. 1821), FRANCE, Napoléon, Half-Franc [1802-7], obv. countermarked 7 raised within an oval indent, 2.10g/32.4 gr (Olrog p.25; Scholten 1381b, this coin; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin worn nearly smooth, countermark very fine, very rare £200-300
Guadeloupe, ——— Forty-Five Sous, a cut quarter segment of the Nine Livre Dollar (after the central square plug had been removed), derived from a Charles IIII, Spanish-American 8 Réales, cut from the rev. with crenated edges and countermarked on the rev. with a crowned g twice raised within a shaped indent, 5.27g/81.3 gr (cf. Prid. 15; VG 28; KM. 34). Coin and countermarks fine, very rare £400-500
Martinique, ——— Three Escalins or ‘Moco’ (4), cut quarter segments reconstructed into a whole coin, with crenated edges of: a) Charles IIII, Spanish-American 8 Réales, 5.89g/90.9 gr; b) MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, Mexico City, assayer fm, 6.40g/98.8 gr; c) Charles III, Spanish-American 8 Réales, 6.42g/99.1 gr; d) MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1807th, lightweight, 5.04g/77.7 gr [4]. First three fine, last very fine and in spite of the late host coin date the very light...
St. Lucia, ——— Three Escalins (perhaps 1812), Charles III, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with sl monogram three times raised within a rectangular indent with plain edges, 6.31g/97.4 gr (cf. Prid. 3 [Sale, lot 311], but with plain edge indent possibly the 1812 issue; VG 7; KM. 2). Coin and countermarks fine, very rare £300-400
Hammer Price: £650
Treble Island Issues, Martinique-St. Kitts-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a Martinique ‘Moco’, c. 1797, cut from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with crenated edges, obv. countermarked with three incuse s for St. Kitts, c. 1801, rev. countermarked tirtila raised within a shaped indent [type III], 6.28g/96.9 gr (Prid. 23 [Sale, lot 212, this coin]). Coin worn nearly smooth, countermarks fine, extremely rare £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £680
Cuba, MEXICO, Maximilian, Peso, 1866, Mexico City, rev. countermarked with incuse key (long variety), 26.81g/413.7gr (KM. R6; cf. Guttag 3385). Fine, toned £150-200
Hammer Price: £700
St. DOMINGUE (Cap-FRANçAIS), ——— One Escalin, a Spanish-American cob Réal, 1714, trimmed to a round shape, rev. countermarked with a c on a crowned anchor raised within a shaped indent, 2.20g/34.0 gr (VG 4; Rudman p.8; KM 8.2). About fine, very rare £300-400
Treble Island Issues, Martinique-St. Kitts-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a Martinique ‘Moco’, c. 1797, cut from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with crenated edges, obv. countermarked with three incuse s for St. Kitts, c. 1801, and tirtila raised within a shaped indent [type III], 6.81g/105.1 gr (Prid. 22 [Sale, lot 211]). Coin fair, countermarks very fine, extremely rare £800-1,000
Gibraltar, ——— Quarter-Dollar, MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 2 Réales, 175[–]m, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the obv. with a heart-shaped hole, 5.30g/81.8 gr (Prid. 18 [Sale, lot 285]; KM. Martinique 18); together with a heart-shaped Plug, 1.23g/19.0 gr [2]. About very fine, very rare £300-350
Hammer Price: £720
Jamaica, ——— Half-Dollar, MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 4 Réales, 1758mm, Mexico City, both sides centrally countermarked with floriate gr raised within a circular indent, 13.19g/203.5gr (Prid. 5 [not in Sale]; KM. 7). Fine, rare £400-600
Hammer Price: £750
British Honduras, ——— Brazil, John VI, 960 Réis, 1820r, Rio, overstamped on a Spanish-American 8 Réales previously countermarked with incuse crowned gr, as the previous lot, 26.59g/410.3gr (cf. Prid. 3; KM. –). Coin very fine, countermark visible on the obverse near the centre, extremely rare £700-900
Hammer Price: £780
Jamaica, Authority of November 1758, Dollar (valued at Six Shillings and Eightpence), MEXICO, Philip V, 8 Réales, 1738mf, Mexico City, both sides centrally countermarked with floriate gr raised within a circular indent, 26.53g/409.4 gr (Prid. 4 [Sale, lot 167]; KM. 8.4). Coin about fine, countermark better, rare on an early host coin £300-350
Jamaica, ——— Half-Dollar (valued at Three Shillings and Fourpence), MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 4 Réales, 1758mm, Mexico City, both sides centrally countermarked with floriate gr raised within a circular indent, 13.21g/203.8gr (Prid. 5 [not in Sale]; KM. 7). Fine, rare £400-600
Gibraltar, Type II, c. 1764, Eleven Bitt Dollar (valued at Eight Shillings and Threepence, revalued to Ten Bitts in September 1798), MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 8 Réales, 1756mm, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the rev. with a heart-shaped hole, 23.48g/362.3 gr (Prid. 6 [Sale, lot 281]; KM. Martinique 10). About fine, very rare £900-1,200
Cuba, MEXICO, Second Republic, Peso, 1872, Guanajuato, obv. countermarked with incuse key (short variety), 26.97g/416.2gr (KM. R7). About very fine £90-120
Hammer Price: £800
Double Island Issues, St. Vincent-Tortola, Authority of December 1797 on St. Vincent, Half-Dollar, viceroyalty of peru, a lightweight cut half segment of an 8 Réales, Potosí, obv. countermarked with three incuse sv monogram stamps raised within a shaped indent, then tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b], c. 1801, 10.00g/154.3 gr (cf. Prid. Virgin Is. 31 [cf. Sale, lot 220]). Coin fair, countermarks fine, extremely rare £1,000-1,500
Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1775, Rio, a lightweight forgery clipped down to the Leeward Island weight standard, 10.69g/165.0 gr/6.87 dwt (cf. Gordon p.29). Surface indentation in obverse field and edge lightly clipped, otherwise very fine, rare £700-900
Vieques, Danish West Indies, Frederick VI, Twenty Skillings, 1816, edge engrailed, obv. countermarked with sunburst with 13 rays, 4.97g/76.6gr (KM. 11). Coin and countermark very fine, very rare £250-300
Hammer Price: £820
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), Authority of 30 December 1808, Fourteen Stuivers, GREAT BRITAIN, George III, Shilling, 1816, obv. countermarked with crowned 14/m (Nicholas Morin), raised within an elliptical indent, 5.26g/81.1 gr (cf. Olrog p.25, 2, 3; KM. 11 variant). Coin fine, countermark fair, extremely rare as a denomination £900-1,200
Unattributed, Portugal, Maria I and Peter III, a striking from counterfeit 4 Escudos dies, 177[–], on a blank intended for an 18th century English copper Halfpenny token by W. Lutwyche, edge payable in lancaster london or bristol, 9.66g/149.0gr. About very fine, rare £40-60
Hammer Price: £850
Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1773, Rio, a lightweight forgery made to the Leeward Island weight standard, 10.90g/168.2 gr/7.00 dwt (cf. Gordon p.29). Scrape mark in obverse field and test mark on edge, otherwise very fine, reverse better, dull surfaces, rare £700-900
Treble Island Issues, Martinique-St. Kitts-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a Martinique ‘Moco’, c. 1797, cut from a Charles IIII, Spanish-American 8 Réales, with crenated edges, obv. countermarked with three incuse s for St. Kitts, c. 1801, and tirtila raised within a shaped indent [type II], 6.13g/94.6 gr (Prid. 21 [Sale, lot 210, this coin]). Coin fair, countermarks fine, extremely rare £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £880
St. Maarten, Eighteen Stuivers (valued at Three Reaals, c. 1812-15), MEXICO, Charles IIII, a cut quarter segment of an 8 Réales, 1799fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked st martin raised within a shaped indent, and design of seven bonded arrows raised within a shaped indent, 5.98g/92.3 gr (Scholten 1416; Prid p.258, fig. 37; VG 13; KM. –). Coin and countermarks fine or better, extremely rare £600-700
Nevis, Seven Doggs (valued at Ten Pence-Halfpenny, c. 1801), a Spanish-American One Réal-sized coin, one side countermarked nevis raised within a rectangular indent with serrated edges, incuse 7 below, 1.82g/28.1 gr (Prid. 2 [Sale, lot 262]). Coin worn completely smooth, countermarks fine to very fine, extremely rare £1,200-1,500
Barbados (General West Indies), 8 dwt 8 grain Standard, Authority of June 1791 (in effect for six weeks), Two Pounds Ten Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, 6,400 Réis, 1770, Rio, 12.92g/199.4 gr/8.31 dwt (cf. Chalmers pp.53-4). Light scratch across portrait and lightly clipped around the edge, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £920
St. Vincent, ——— Half-Dollar, Charles IIII, a lightweight cut half segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with a central plug to increase the weight, obv. countermarked with sv monogram thrice raised within a shaped indent (once on the plug), 9.41g/145.2 gr (Prid. 2 [Sale, lot 346]; KM. 4.2). Coin and countermarks fine, very rare £700-900
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Nine Stuivers (c. 1834), a Spanish-American Réal, one side countermarked c/9 raised within an elliptical indent, 2.62g/40.4 gr (Olrog p.188; Prid. Not Attributed 39, this coin; Scholten 1374; Howland Wood 102, this coin; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin worn smooth, countermark very fine, extremely rare £200-300
Gibraltar, Type IV, c. 1765, Eleven Bitt Dollar (valued at Eight Shillings and Threepence, revalued to 10 Bitts in September 1798), MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 8 Réales, 1757mm, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the rev. with a heart-shaped hole, 22.25g/343.3 gr (Prid. 16 [Sale, lot 284]; KM. Martinique 20). About very fine, very rare £1,500-2,000
Martinique, ——— Twenty-Two Livres per gros, Brazil, Joseph I, 6,400 Réis, 1776, Rio, obv. countermarked 22 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, this countermark designated by Gordon as Fraud A, though a full weight coin, 14.32g/221.0 gr (Gordon 19; Prid. p.242, fig. 22; VG 22). Coin and countermark about extremely fine, rare £1,500-2,000
Hammer Price: £950
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