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Sold between 17 November & 28 September 2010

2 parts

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The Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins formed by the late Edward Roehrs

Edward Roehrs

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Lot

№ 440 x

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17 November 2011

Hammer Price:
£75

St. Maarten, Authority of January 1798, One Stuiver, a Cayenne 2 Sous, obv. countermarked stm raised within a beaded circle, 1.15g/17.7gr (Scholten 1419; Prid. p.256, fig, 30 [Sale, lot 428]; KM. 1 [value given as 2 Stuivers]). Coin and countermark poor, heavily corroded and partly cut through by the countermark, rare £20-30

Provenance: Found in a plant basket on St Bartholomew; bt K.V. Eckardt