THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)


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——— Two Bitts, SPAIN, Philip V, 2 Réales (Pistareen), 1721J, Seville, with a central square hole crudely cut, 4.10g/63.3 gr (Prid. Not Attributed 34). Very fine, rare


£100-150 Provenance: Bt New Netherlands August 1972. Most likely a contemporary forgery in crude imitation of the two bitts with a central circular hole


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——— Two Bitts, SPAIN, Philip V, 2 Réales (Pistareen), 172[–], uncertain mint, with a central hexagonal shaped hole, somewhat crude and irregular, 3.14g/48.5 gr (Prid. Not Attributed 35, this coin; Caldecott, BNJ 1904, pl.ii, 17, this coin; Howland Wood 81, this coin). Fair, rare


£100-150


Provenance: J.B. Caldecott Collection, Sotheby Auction, 11-13 June 1912, lot 442 (part); J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 238; Dr W. Tankersley Collection, Baldwin Auction 18, 12-13 October 1998, lot 160.


This specimen appears to be a crudely made example and accordingly probably a contemporary forgery, as a few specimens are known where the hexagonal shaped hole appears to be well executed and as such a probable authorised issue, perhaps Dominica after 1816, to make a more difficult shape and so deter the relatively easy to produce contemporary forgeries with a circular hole


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Issues of c. 1816-18, Quarter-Dollar (valued at Two Shillings and Sixpence), Charles III, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked 2.6 raised within a shaped indent, 6.91g/106.6 gr (Prid. 32 [Sale, lot 302]; KM. 10). Coin and countermark about fine, rare


£250-300 Provenance: V.M. Brand Collection; bt K. Fischer 1964


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Black Dogg (valued at Three-Halfpence), a counterfeit French Cayenne 2 Sous, 1782A, centrally pierced with a small diamond-shaped hole, 1.09g/16.8 gr (Prid. 33 [Sale, lot 303, this coin]; KM. –). Corroded, about fine, extremely rare £30-50


Provenance: Found on Dominica; F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 303. The attribution is based on the find-spot; the hole would appear to have been made with the tip of a nail


St. Vincent-Dominica


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Authority of December 1797 on St. Vincent, Quarter-Dollar, MEXICO, a cut quarter segment of an 8 Réales, Mexico City, obv. countermarked with SV monogram raised within a shaped indent, rev. countermarked 2.6 raised within a shaped indent (Dominica, c. 1816-18, the Dominica Treasurer’s report of 1822 indicates 1/4 of a Spanish Dollar valued at Two Shillings and Sixpence), 6.86g/105.8 gr (cf. Prid. St Vincent 4 and Dominica 32). Coin mediocre, St. Vincent countermarks fair, Dominica countermark very fine, of the highest rarity


£2,000-2,500 Provenance: Bt R. Lyall These lots are illustrated on our web site www.dnw.co.uk


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