The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Double Island Issues, St Kitts-Tortola, Issues of c. 1801 on St Kitts, Eighth-Dollar, a cut eighth-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, one side countermarked with incuse s three times, the other side countermarked tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b, late die state], 2.97g/45.8gr (cf. Prid. 53 [Sale, cf. lot 249]). Coin worn smooth, countermarks fine, extremely rare £800-1,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins.

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Provenance: A Collection of Obsidional, Emergency and Countermarked Coins, SCMB January 1956 (180); SNC December 2008 (CL 35)