The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Double Island Issues, Montserrat-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a cut quarter-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with m three times raised within a square indent, and tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b, late die state], rev. countermarked with the Montserrat design raised within a shaped indent (partly worn away after the Tortola countermark was applied), 4.57g/70.5gr (Prid. 43 [Sale, lot 237]). Coin worn and cut down in size, removing nearly all of one of the m countermarks, remaining countermarks fine, very rare £500-700

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

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Provenance: E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 87 [from R.V. Zander December 1966]