The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

ESSEQUIBO & DEMERARA, A Charles III Half-Réal, 1781, partially cut with a special tool designed to produce three ‘light weight cut half-segments’ and leave the centre segment for the melting pot, 1.25g/19.3gr (cf. Prid. p.32 for discussion of this coin type). Obverse fair, reverse fine, rare and interesting £60-80

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

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Provenance: E.A.V. Abraham Collection; A.N. Brushfield Collection, Part IV, Glendining Auction, 30-1 July 1945, lot unspecified; R.C. Gordon Collection, Baldwin Auction 8, 7 October 1996, lot 196