The Eric Hodge Collection of British Merchant Coins

Scotland, NEW LANARK (Lanarkshire), Lanark Mills, a France, Louis XV, Half-Ecu, 1730 9, Rennes, obv. countermarked payable at lanark mills * around 2/6, and quatrefoil in shield, 13.66g/6h (Manville 74; Hodge 074S-003a, this coin; KM. CC69). Host coin fair, countermarks fine, extremely rare, four specimens known £1,000-£1,500

Glendining Auction, 26 January 1966, lot 289; A.E. Bray Collection, Glendining Auction, 1 May 1985, lot 217, W.J. Noble Auction 58B (Melbourne), 7-8 July 1998, lot 1591, Noonans Auction 336, 24 September 2025, lot 223.

4 known with 1 in institutions.

Not in the Hunterian or National Museum of Scotland.