The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, British Administration: Decree of May 1811, Nine Livres, contemporary counterfeit, a Ferdinand VII, 8 Réales, 1813jp, Lima, pierced from the rev. with a square hole with crenated edges, both sides countermarked with a crowned g raised within a shaped indent, 23.13g/356.9gr (cf. Prid. 2 [Sale, cf. lot 399]; VG 30; KM. 26). Coin obverse fair or better, reverse fine, countermarks about fine £400-600

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

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Provenance: Bt Baldwin 1985.

As the host coin date is after the British administration Decree of 1811, this piece cannot be an un-stamped dollar from the French administration later ‘unofficially’ stamped to comply with it and as such is likely to be a contemporary counterfeit