The Eric Hodge Collection of British Merchant Coins

Scotland, NEW LANARK (Lanarkshire), Lanark Mills, a France, Louis XV, Half-Ecu, 1730l, Bayonne, obv. countermarked payable at lanark mills * around 2/6, 13.66g/6h (Manville 75; Hodge 075S-001b, this coin; KM. CC69). Reverse engraved with the letter HBJ and four stars, coin worn, countermark fine, excessively rare, the only specimen available to commerce £1,000-£1,200

Stack’s Bowers Auction 177, 14 August 2013, lot 13400

5 known with 4 in institutions. This is the only example available to commerce.

Not in British Museum.