British and Scottish Coins and Countermarked Tokens from the Collection of the late Arthur Chesser

Scotland, PERTHSHIRE, Deanston, Deanston Cotton Mill, a MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1795fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked deanston cotton mill around 5/’, 26.80g/12h (Manville 21, and p.58, this coin listed; KM. CC28). Coin about very fine, countermark better, grey tone, extremely rare; very few specimens known £2,000-3,000

Provenance: H. Montagu Collection (1890 Spink catalogue, no.471); T. Bliss Collection, Part II, Sotheby Auction, 15-19 May 1916, lot 810; F.S. Cokayne Collection, Glendining Auction, 17-18 July 1946, lot 174; H.M. Lingford Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 24-6 October 1950, lot 753; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 19 November 1960, lot 341; bt L. Sverdloff