The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, British Administration: Decree of May 1811, Forty-Five Sou Moco, contemporary counterfeit, a very lightweight cut quarter-segment from the Nine Livre Dollar (after the central square plug had been removed) derived from an 8 Réales, Lima, cut from the rev. with crenated edges, rev. twice countermarked with crowned g raised within a shaped indent, 3.44g/53.1gr (cf. Prid. 15-21 [Sale, cf. lots 409-12]; cf. VG 28; cf. KM 34). Coin and countermarks very fine; the light weight, crude countermark and unsymmetrical cut edges point to this being a contemporary counterfeit £100-150

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

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Provenance: R.C. Gordon Collection, Baldwin Auction 8, 7 October 1989, lot 163; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 174.

The condition of the coin can probably be explained in that nobody was fooled by this very lightweight piece; as such it probably saw little, if any, circulation