THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
Cut money provided the principal marketplace currency for day to day transactions. The coins were cut by private individuals and circulated by convention. This money also circulated on the other islands and as such is being considered here under the heading ‘General West Indies’; the Pridmore references are to his Barbados section, where the coins were legal tender until March 1799.
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Half-Dollar (valued at Three Shillings, Four Bitts), MEXICO, Charles III, a cut half segment of an 8 Réales, 1778FF, Mexico City, 12.24g/188.9 gr (Prid. 1 [Sale, lot 158]). Waterworn, otherwise about very fine
£90-120
Provenance: Recovered from the wreck of the Hartwell, c. 1995; Ponterio & Associates Auction 81 (Long Beach), 1 June 1996, lot 1363.
The Hartwell, an British East Indiaman of 937 tonnes and carrying 26 guns, was lost on a reef off the Cape Verde Islands on 24 May 1787 after a mutiny by the crew on her maiden voyage outbound for China
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Half-Dollar, MEXICO, Charles III, a cut half segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, Mexico City, assayer FF, 11.58g/178.7 gr (Prid. 1 [Sale, lot 158]). Waterworn, otherwise good fine
£90-120
Provenance: Recovered from the wreck of the Hartwell, c. 1995; Ponterio & Associates Auction 81 (Long Beach), 1 June 1996, lot 1367
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Quarter-Dollar (valued at One Shilling and Sixpence, Two Bitts), MEXICO, Charles III, a cut quarter segment of an 8 Réales, 1773FM, Mexico City, 5.05g/77.9 gr (Prid. 2 [Sale, lot 159]). Waterworn, fine
£60-80
Provenance: Recovered from the wreck of the Hartwell, c. 1995; Ponterio & Associates Auction 81 (Long Beach), 1 June 1996, lot 1360
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Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 294 Quarter-Dollar, Charles IIII, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 180[–], 7.16g/110.5 gr (Prid. 2,
this coin [Sale, lot 159]). Good fine £70-90
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Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 159 Quarter-Dollar, Charles IIII, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 5.94g/91.6 gr (Prid. 2, and
Prid. Dominica 23, this coin). Good fine £70-90
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Provenance: Hopkins Hoard, SNC September 1974 (69); bt Spink 1975 Eighth-Dollar (valued at Ninepence, One Bitt), a cut eighth segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 2.95g/45.5 gr
(Prid. 3 [Sale, lot 160]). Very fine £70-90 These lots are illustrated on our web site
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