Auction Catalogue

17 November 2011

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Coins of the West Indies from the Collection of the late Edward Roehrs (Part II)

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 518 x

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17 November 2011

Hammer Price:
£3,400

Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), ——— Sixty-Six Shillings, BRAZIL, Maria I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, rev. countermarked varner raised within an irregular shaped indent on a central plug, 10.91g/168.3 gr/7.01 dwt (Gordon 210, this coin; Prid. Not Attributed 17, this coin). Coin fine, countermark about fine but somewhat indistinct; the only recorded specimen £2,500-3,000

Provenance: Glendining Auction, 16-17 June 1937, lot 422; bt R.C. Gordon