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Gibraltar, Type I, c. 1761-4, Eleven Bitt Dollar (valued at Eight Shillings and Threepence, revalued to Ten Bitts in September 1798), MEXICO, Philip V, 8 Réales, 1744mf, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the obv. with a heart-shaped hole, 23.42g/361.4 gr (Prid. 1 [Sale, lot 278]; KM. Martinique 5). Fine and toned, very rare £1,200-1,500
Hammer Price: £2,300
Dominica, Authority of August 1813, Sixteen Bitt Dollar (valued at Twelve Shillings), MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1798fm, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the rev. with a circular hole of 15 crenations, countermarked both sides with a crowned 16 raised within a shaped indent [the 1798 Eleven Bitt Dollar re-valued in 1813], 23.16g/357.4 gr (Prid. 24 [Sale, lot 295, this coin]; KM. 8.3). Coin fair and with scratch on obverse, countermark fine, extremely rare £3,000-4,000
Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), Leeward Islands-Martinique, Authority of September 1805, Twenty Livres per gros, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1767, Rio, obv. countermarked 20 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, 10.97g/169.3 gr (Gordon 18; Prid. p.242, fig. 23). Coin and countermark very fine, rare £1,500-2,000
St. Eustatius (Statia), Valuation or authorisation for stamping unknown, a Spanish-American 2 Réales (Head Pistareen), obv. countermarked p in a beaded circle raised within a circular indent, 4.96g/76.5 gr (cf. Scholten 1431; KM. 7.1). Coin worn smooth, countermark fine, extremely rare £1,000-1,500
Hammer Price: £2,100
Dominica, ——— Twelve Bitt Dollar (valued at Nine Shillings), MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1792fm, Mexico City, centrally pierced with an over-large circular hole, rev. countermarked with a crowned 12 raised within a shaped indent four times, 14.79g/228.2 gr [approximate official weight 18g] (Prid. 26 [Sale, lot 296, this coin]; SNC December 1905, col. 8762, this coin; KM. 7). Fine, a contemporary forgery, but of the highest rarity £4,000-5,000
Jamaica, ——— Dollar, spanish captaincy-general of GUATEMALA, Ferdinand VI, 8 Réales, 1758j, Guatemala, both sides centrally countermarked with floriate gr raised within a circular indent, but from the smaller punch used on the Half-Dollar (4 Réales), 26.75g/412.8gr (cf. Prid. 4 [cf. Sale, lot 167]; KM. 8.1). About extremely fine but an attempted piercing for suspension near the edge, the combination of host coin and Half-Dollar punch extremely rare, only one other specimen recorded...
Hammer Price: £2,000
Haiti, ——— Monnaie d’Haiti (valued at Two Escalins), an irregular-shaped plug from the centre of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with an incuse 2, retrograde, 3.24g/50.0 gr (Braun, table 8, II-8). Very fine and toned, extremely rare £900-1,200
Guadeloupe, French Administration, Authority of November 1802, Escalin, Charles IIII, a cut segment from a Spanish-American 8 Réales 1806, after a central segment had been removed, rev. countermarked with incuse rf, 2.24g/34.6 gr (Prid. p.229, fig. 17; VG 2; KM. 2). Coin and countermark better than very fine, extremely rare £700-900
Martinique, Authority of September 1805, Twenty-Two Livres per gros, Portugal, John V, Two Escudos, 1735, Lisbon, obv. countermarked 22 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, 5.69g/87.8 gr (denomination not recorded by Gordon or VG). Coin about fine and clipped around the edge, countermark very fine, extremely rare and a very early date for a host coin £2,500-3,000
Hammer Price: £1,950
St. Vincent, ——— Half-Dollar (value presumed as Four Shillings and Three-Halfpence, or Five-and-a-Half Bitts), Charles IIII, a lightweight cut half segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with a central plug to increase the weight, rev. countermarked with sv monogram thrice raised within a shaped indent (once on the plug), 10.27g/158.4 gr (Prid. 2 [Sale, lot 346]; KM. 4.2). Coin and countermarks fine, very rare £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,900
Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1776, Rio, a lightweight forgery slightly overweight for the Leeward Island standard, 11.32g/174.7 gr/7.28 dwt (cf. Gordon p.29). Very fine, reverse better, rare £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,850
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), Montserrat-St. Barts, Authority of 30 December 1808, Eighteen Stuivers, MEXICO, Charles III, 2 Réales, 1768m, Mexico City, obv. countermarked with Montserrat design raised within a shaped indent, then countermarked with crowned 18/m raised within an elliptical indent, 6.18g/95.4 gr (Zay 54; Howland Wood 27; cf. Prid. Montserrat 9). Coin mediocre, countermarks fine, extremely rare £1,500-2,000
Hammer Price: £1,800
Grenada, ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Maria I, 6,400 Réis, 1789, Rio, obv. countermarked with incuse g thrice spaced around the circumference, 11.78g/181.8 gr (Gordon 9; Prid. 3; KM. 3). Coin very fine or better but edge lightly clipped, countermarks very fine, very rare £2,000-2,500
Hammer Price: £1,750
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), St. Eustatius-St. Barts, ——— Four Stuivers, Charles III, a Spanish-American Half-Réal, rev. stamped p in a beaded circle raised within a circular indent (for St. Eustatius), then countermarked with crowned 4/m raised within an elliptical indent, 1.29g/19.9 gr (Olrog p.25, 7; KM. St Eustatius 5). Coin poor, countermarks better, extremely rare £900-1,200
Gibraltar, ——— Half-Dollar, MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 4 Réales, 1755mm, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the rev. with a heart-shaped hole, 11.22g/173.1 gr (Prid. 17 [not in Sale]; KM. Martinique 19). Very fine and extremely rare £2,000-2,500
Martinique, Grenada-Martinique, ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, 6,400 Réis, 1772, Rio, obv. countermarked with an incuse g thrice spaced around the circumference, then countermarked 22 above an eagle raised within a shaped indent (authorised on Martinique September 1805, valued at 22 livres per gros), 11.79g/181.9 gr (Gordon 107, this coin; Prid. Grenada 19). Coin about very fine and moderately clipped around the edge, countermarks very fine, extremely rare £4,000-5,000
Hammer Price: £1,700
Sierra Leone, Authorisation not traced, Half-Dollar (presumably valued at Twenty-Six Pence), SPAIN, Charles IIII, 4 Réales, 1803cn, Seville, obv. countermarked with crowned wr incuse, 13.24g/204.3 gr (Vice FT 1, this coin; KM. 13). Coin and countermark very fine though the r of the countermark not fully stamped, extremely rare; only two other specimens recorded £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £1,650
Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), 7 dwt Standard, c. 1798, Six Pounds Twelve Shillings, Brazil, John V, 12,800 Réis, 1730, Minas Gerais, clipped down to just slightly under the Leeward Island weight standard, 21.70g/334.8 gr/13.95 dwt (cf. Gordon p.29). Some scratches in obverse field and heavily clipped around the edge, otherwise very fine and extremely rare £1,000-1,500
Jamaica, ——— Dollar, MEXICO, Ferdinand VI, 8 Réales, 1758mm, Mexico City, both sides centrally countermarked with floriate gr raised within a circular indent, obv. later countermarked crowned gp raised within a circular indent, for Azores (c. 1887), 26.73g/412.5gr (cf. Prid. 4 [Sale, cf. lot 167]; KM. 8.3). Fine, extremely rare £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £1,600
ESSEQUIBO & DEMERARA (British Guiana), ——— Three Bitts (valued at Fifteen Pence), a central plug from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 19 crenations, rev. countermarked e&d 3.bts raised within a beaded circle, 4.83g/74.5gr (Prid. 3 [Sale, lot 152]; KM. 1; Scholten 1442). Coin and countermark very fine, countermark not fully struck up between 9 and 12 o’clock (perhaps punch broken), very rare £1,500-2,000
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Fourteen Stuivers (c. 1821), FRANCE, Quarter-Écu, obv. countermarked 14 raised within an elliptical indent, 4.83g/74.5 gr (Scholten 1376; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin poor, countermark fine, extremely rare £300-400
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Fourteen Stuivers (c. 1825), France, Louis XV, Quarter-Écu, 1728, obv. countermarked with a c raised within a shaped indent, and 14 raised within an elliptical indent, unrelated incuse countermarks of a ‘flower’ on obv. and rl dividing a leaf and a star on rev., 4.81g/74.2 gr (Scholten 1367, this coin; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin fair, countermarks better, extremely rare £400-600
Guadeloupe, ——— Twenty Livres per gros, Brazil, Maria I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1788, Rio, obv. countermarked 20 ≠ raised within a rectangular indent, with what appears to be a damaged or modified stamp as the animal head portion of it is missing, and an incuse ‘eye’, 8.63g/133.2 gr (cf. Gordon 17a/b; cf. KM. 4.2). Coin good fine but clipped moderately around the edge and a mount removed, countermark very fine, extremely rare £3,000-4,000
Hammer Price: £1,550
Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1765, Rio, obv. countermarked t·d once raised within a rectangular indent on a very large crude central base gold plug and twice near the edge, very slightly over the Leeward Island weight standard, 11.05g/170.5 gr/7.10 dwt (Gordon 216b, this coin; Prid. Not Attributed 15, this coin). Coin about fine and heavily clipped round the edge, countermarks fine, extremely rare...
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), Post-1819 series, Eighteen Stuivers, Spain, Charles IIII, 2 Réales (Head Pistareen), 1790mf, Madrid, obv. countermarked 18 raised within a square indent, 5.48g/84.6 gr (Scholten 1377; Prid. Not Attributed 25; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin poor, countermark better, extremely rare £300-400
Hammer Price: £1,500
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), St. Eustatius-St. Barts, ——— Nine Stuivers, MEXICO, Philip V, One Réal, 1741mf, Mexico City, rev. first countermarked with crowned 9/m raised within an elliptical indent, then countermarked p in a beaded circle raised within a circular indent (St. Eustatius, authorised September 1810), 2.87g/44.3 gr (Olrog p.25, 5). Coin poor, St. Barts countermark fine but partly obliterated by the second stamp, St. Eustatius countermark very fine, extremely rare...
Australia, ——— ‘Dump’ (valued at Fifteen Pence), a circular centre segment from the Five Shilling Holey Dollar, obv. stamped new south wales 1813 raised around a central crown, rev. stamped fifteen pence raised in two lines, edge roughly grained, 5.47g/84.4 gr (Mira dies A/1; KM. 1.1). Fair, rare £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £1,450
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Ten Stuivers (c. 1834), a Spanish-American Réal, one side countermarked 10 raised within a lozenge-shaped indent, 2.63g/40.6 gr (cf. Olrog p.27; cf. KM. Curaçao 4). Coin worn smooth, countermark about fine, extremely rare £400-600
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), ——— Nine Stuivers (c. 1810-21), Charles IIII, a Spanish-American Réal, obv. countermarked o/9/crown raised within an elliptical indent, 2.45g/37.8 gr (cf. KM. 8-9). Coin and countermark fair, extremely rare £300-500
Hammer Price: £1,400
St. Bartholomew (St. Barts), Tortola-St. Barts, Authority of 30 December 1808, Eighteen Stuivers, Spain, Charles III, 2 Réales (Head Pistareen), 1773cf, Seville, rev. counterstamped tirtila raised within a shaped indent [type II], then obv. countermarked with crowned 18/m raised within an elliptical indent, 5.06g/78.1 gr (Olrog p.184; cf. Prid. 8 for type; Burzio 481, this coin; KM. 13, this coin). Coin poor and pierced, countermarks about fine, the tirtila mark partly flattened by the...
Unattributed, Brazil, Maria I and Peter III, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1780, Rio, a lightweight forgery not comparable to any particular island standard, 10.58g/163.3 gr/6.80 dwt (cf. Gordon p.41). Good fine but some surface marks £700-900
Hammer Price: £1,350
Unattributed, Brazil, Maria I and Peter III, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1782, Bahia, a crudely made lightweight forgery, 13.61g/210.0 gr/8.75 dwt. Sweated, no edge milling, fair £500-600
Martinique, ——— Twenty Livres per gros, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1756, Bahia, obv. countermarked 20 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, 9.03g/139.4 gr (Gordon 18; Prid. p.242, fig. 23). Coin fine but heavily clipped around the edge, countermark very fine, rare £1,500-2,000
St. Lucia, Issues of c. 1798, Six Escalins, Charles III, a cut half segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with sl monogram twice raised within a rectangular indent with lightly serrated edges, 11.16g/172.2 gr (Prid. 1 [Sale, lot 310]; VG 10; KM. 4). Coin and countermarks very fine, extremely rare £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £1,300
St. Vincent, ——— Six Bitts (valued at Four Shillings and Sixpence), Charles IIII, a circular central segment from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked s/vi raised within a shaped indent, 8.80g/135.8 gr (Prid. 12 [Sale, lot 351]; KM. 10). Coin and countermark fine, extremely rare £900-1,200
Hammer Price: £1,250
Treble Island Issues, Martinique-St. Kitts-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a Martinique ‘Moco’, c. 1797, cut from a MEXICO, 8 Réales, Mexico City, assayer fm, with crenated edges, obv. countermarked with three incuse s for St. Kitts, c. 1801, rev. countermarked tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b, late die state], 6.83g/105.4 gr (cf. Prid. 20 [Sale, lot 209, this coin]). Coin fair, countermarks fine, extremely rare £800-1,000
Hammer Price: £1,200
Nevis, Nine Doggs (valued at One Shilling and Three-Halfpence, c. 1801), a Spanish-American cob One Réal, rev. countermarked nevis raised within a rectangular indent with serrated edges, incuse 9 below, 2.70g/41.6 gr (Prid. 1 [Sale, lot 261]). Coin worn nearly smooth, countermarks very fine, extremely rare £900-1,000
Double Island Issues, St. Kitts-Tortola, ——— Eighth-Dollar, a cut eighth segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, one side countermarked with three incuse s for St. Kitts, c. 1801 and tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b, late die state], 2.66g/41.0 gr (cf. Prid. 53 [cf. Sale, lot 234]). Coin worn smooth, countermarks fine, extremely rare £1,200-1,500
Hammer Price: £1,150
Double Island Issues, Montserrat-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, one side countermarked with m raised within a square indent, nearly completely obliterated by tirtila raised within a shaped indent [type II], other side countermarked with three Montserrat designs raised within a shaped indent, 5.57g/85.9 gr (Prid. 46, this coin [Sale, lot 239, this coin]). Coin worn smooth, countermarks fine and an unusual combination, extremely rare £500-700
Martinique, ——— Twenty-Two Livres per gros, Portugal, Joseph I, Four Escudos, 1768, Lisbon, obv. countermarked 22 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, 12.58g/194.1 gr (Gordon 19; Prid. p.242, fig. 22; VG 22). Coin fine, clipped around the edge and with possible trace of mounting, granular surface, countermark better, rare £2,000-2,500
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