World Coins

Curaçao, Authority of J.K. Lauffer, 1799-1803, Eighteen Stuivers ‘Guillotine’ (valued at Three Reaals, c. 1800), a cut quarter segment of an 8 Réales, [1788-1800] fm, Mexico City, with crenated edges, rev. countermarked with five-petal rosace raised within a circular indent, 6.10g/94.1gr (Scholten 1368a; Prid. p.251, fig. 25 [Sale, lot 421]; KM. 7). Coin and countermark fine with a small piercing at one corner, very rare £250-300

Provenance: E. Roehrs Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 96, 17 November 2011, lot 572 [from R.C. Gordon 1990]