Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Tortola, Authority of March 1801, Eighth-Dollar, a cut eighth segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked tirtila raised within a shaped indent, 3.15g (Prid. 10; Pridmore, SNC September 1974, type II; KM. 15). Coin worn nearly smooth, countermark very fine, rare £300-400

Provenance: Ponterio Auction 88 (Long Beach), 7 June 1997, lot 1538; E. Roehrs Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 96, 17 November 2011, lot 428.

Slabbed in NGC holder, graded VG 8, which is patently derisory and blatantly ignorant