Coins and Historical Medals

Virgin Islands – Tortola, Authority of February 1801, Eighth-Dollar, a cut eighth-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked tortola raised within a shaped indent, 2.54g (Prid. 4 [Sale, lot 179]; Pridmore, SNC September 1974, type 1/a, late die state). Coin fair, countermark fine, rare £300-£360

Provenance: Wayte Raymond Collection, NASCA Auction 13 (New York), 14 August 1978, lot 4032; K.V. Eckardt Collection