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

Scotland, RENFREWSHIRE, Port Glasgow, Alexander Steven & Sons, a PERU, Ferdinand VII, 8 Réales, 1813jp, Lima, obv. countermarked + a . steven & sons port glasgow around 4/6, 27.66g/12h (Manville 89, and p.171, this coin listed; KM. CC91). Coin good fine, countermark good very fine, toned, extremely rare; very few specimens known, most of which are in institutions £2,000-2,500

Provenance: F.S. Cokayne Collection, Glendining Auction, 17-18 July 1946, lot 147; H.M. Lingford Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 24-6 October 1950, lot 731; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 19 November 1960, lot 325; bt L. Sverdloff