The Eric Hodge Collection of British Merchant Coins

Scotland, Greenock (Renfrewshire), McFie Lindsay & Co., a Bolivia, Charles IIII, 8 Reales, 1804pj, Potosi, obv. countermarked mcfie lindsay & coy * greenock * around 4/6, 26.65g/12h (Manville 57, and p.112; Hodge 057S.006a, this coin; SNC December 2011, pp.137-8; KM. CC58). Coin good fine, countermark a little better but double struck and slightly weak in places, very rare and unusual
£700-£900

Sotheby Auction, 28 September 1977, lot 216; A. Cowen Collection, Spink Auction 136, 6-7 October 1999, lot 1576; Aureo Auction (Barcelona), 20 December 2000, lot 1768.

31 known with 10 in institutions.