Auction Catalogue

11 & 12 June 2014

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Ancient, British & World Coins, Commemorative Medals and Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 678

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11 June 2014

Hammer Price:
£160

Virgin Islands – Tortola, Issue of c. 1805, Quarter-Dollar, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked tirtila raised within a shaped indent, 5.31g (Prid. 9; Pridmore, SNC September 1974, type II [Sale, lot 191]; KM. 17). Coin worn, pierced and plugged after the countermark applied, countermark fine £100-150

Provenance: Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 15 July 1998 (967, part), E. Roerhrs Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 96, 17 November 2011, lot 426