THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
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——— Quarter-Dollar, SPAIN, Philip V, 2 Réales (Pistareen), 172[–]J, Seville, centrally pierced from the obv. with a heart-shaped hole, 4.73g/73.0 gr (cf. Prid. 8 [cf. Sale, lot 282]; KM. Martinique 8). Obverse mediocre, reverse fine, rare
£100-150 Provenance: Bt November 1994
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——— Quarter-Dollar, SPAIN, Philip V, 2 Réales (Pistareen), 1737P, Seville, centrally pierced from the obv. with a heart-shaped hole, 5.18g/79.9 gr (Prid. 8, this coin [Sale, lot 282, this coin]; KM. Martinique 8). Fine and toned, rare
£150-200 Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 Septermber 1981, lot 282; bt Spink
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——— Eighth-Dollar, MEXICO, Philip V, Réal, 1738MF, Mexico City, pierced from the rev. with a heart-shaped hole, 2.86g/44.1 gr (Prid. 9; KM. Martinique 7). Very fine and very rare
£150-200
Provenance: H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1614. As a coin with a type II piercing, one would expect the host to be Spanish and not, as this piece, the heavier Spanish-American type
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Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 283 ——— Sixteenth-Dollar, SPAIN, Philip V, Half-Réal, 1733JF, Madrid, pierced from the rev. with a heart-shaped
hole, 1.11g/17.1 gr (Prid. 10, this coin [Sale, lot 283, this coin]; KM. Martinique 6). Mediocre, very rare £150-200
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Type III, c. 1765, Eleven Bitt Dollar (valued at Eight Shillings and Threepence, revalued to 10 Bitts in September 1798), MEXICO, Philip V, 8 Réales, 1745MF, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the obv. with a heart-shaped hole, 24.42g/376.8 gr (Prid. 11 [not in Sale]; KM. Martinique 15). Very fine and toned, extremely rare; only one other specimen (Pridmore 11) traced
£2,000-2,500 Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction (Los Angeles), 13-15 June 1975, lot 1220.
This extremely rare variety is unlikely to be a contemporary forgery of the more common type IV as the amount of silver removed is less. It could be an earlier version of type IV or perhaps the product of another officially appointed silversmith. Indeed, there is the possibility that this type could be a forgery from c. 1890-1910
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