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25 September 2018

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The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

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Lot

№ 5153

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25 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£1,900

Guadeloupe, British Administration: Proclamation of February 1813, Forty Sous, a George II, Shilling, rev. countermarked with crowned g raised within a rectangular indent, 5.29g/81.6gr (Prid. 4 [Sale, cf. lots 402-3]; KM. 15). Coin obverse fair, reverse worn smooth, countermark very 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: Bt Coin Galleries 1978.

With respect to this and the following lot it should be pointed out that the Pridmore illustrations listed under Guadeloupe (Prid. 4 and 5) would appear to be modern fakes. When cataloguing the John J. Ford Jr collection (Glendining, 1989), Peter Mitchell inserted the following note above lot 148: ‘In Baldwin’s working copy of Pridmore, Uncle Fred [Baldwin] has written “I supplied many 1787 shillings and George II and III 6d to Zay and he offered them back to us with the stamps as Nos. 4 and 5”