Auction Catalogue

2 & 3 April 2014

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Jetons, Medals and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1158

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3 April 2014

Hammer Price:
£2,600

Guadeloupe, British Administration, Authority of May 1811, Eighty-Two Livres Ten Sols, a Brazil, Maria I and Peter III, 6,400 Réis, 1786, Rio, obv. countermarked with crowned g raised within an oval indent and 82 10 raised within a rectangular indent, these countermarks designated by Gordon as Fraud D, 14.33g/221.1 gr (cf. Gordon 20 and p.84, this coin illustrated; Prid. 1; VG 32; KM. 28). Coin and countermarks very fine or better, very rare £800-1,000

Provenance: E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 167 [from R.C. Gordon].

The cataloguer is not convinced that this pair of countermarks are modern fakes. However, the amateurish style might suggest a contemporary forgery