Coins and Historical Medals

Virgin Islands – Tortola, Issues c. 1805+, Half-Dollar, a cut half-segment of a Charles III Spanish-American 8 Réales, rev. countermarked tirtila raised within a shaped indent, 10.94g (Prid. 12 [Sale, lot 194]; Pridmore, SNC September 1974, type III). Coin fair, countermark fine £300-£400

Provenance: World Wide Coins of California Mailbid Sale 16, 16 November 1989 (506); K.V. Eckardt Collection