Auction Catalogue

17 November 2011

Starting at 2:00 PM

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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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№ 601 x

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17 November 2011

Hammer Price:
£1,500

Unattributed, BRAZIL, Joseph I, 6,400 Réis, 1766, Rio, clipped down to the United States post-Revolutionary 9 dwt standard, 13.91g/214.7gr/8.94 dwt. Sea-salvage; good very fine but edge slightly clipped £700-900

Provenance: Recovered from an unknown wreck in the Caribbean; The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 78, 10 October 1990, lot 747 (part); bt K.V. Eckardt 1992