THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
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Authority of August 1798, Sixty-Six Shillings, BRAZIL, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1761 Rio, with a collar added around the edge of the coin, obv. countermarked S raised within a square indent thrice spaced around the circumference and a small incuse T, central plug uncountermarked, 11.67g/180.1 gr (cf. Gordon 10). Coin fine or better, part of collared edge heavily clipped, countermarks very fine, of the highest rarity
£5,000-6,000
Provenance: J.C. Rovensky Collection, B. Max Mehl Mailbid Sale, 30 November 1954 (2140); J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 243.
See R. Lyall, West Indies Coinage – Some New Discoveries (Spink, 1998) for contemporary accounts of ‘ringed Joes’. This specimen is the only known example that explains this feature
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——— Sixty-Six Shillings, BRAZIL, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1767, Rio, obv. countermarked GH raised within a shaped indent on a central plug and S raised within a square indent thrice around the edge, 11.60g/179.0 gr (Gordon 12, this coin; Prid. 8, this coin; KM. 6). Edge lightly clipped, otherwise coin and countermarks very fine, of the highest rarity
£5,000-6,000
Provenance: J. Meili Collection, Jacques Schulman Auction (Amsterdam), 23 May 1910, lot 2209; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1827; D.F. Spink Collection, Spink Auction 50, 6-7 March 1986, lot 205
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Authority of September 1811, Twelve Bitts (valued at Nine Shillings), MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1805TH, Mexico City, with a large central hole, obv. countermarked S/XII raised within a shaped indent, 17.38g/268.2 gr (Prid. 10, this coin [Sale, lot 349, this coin]; KM. 12.2). Coin and countermark very fine, extremely rare
£6,000-8,000
Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 349 [from W.J. Noble]; bt I. Rudman 1982
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——— Twelve Bitts, MEXICO, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1797FM, Mexico City, with a large central hole, obv. countermarked &/XII raised within a shaped indent, 17.95g/277.0 gr (Prid. 30, this coin). Coin and countermark fine, a contemporary forgery, extremely rare
£800-1,000
Provenance: D.F. Spink Collection, Spink Auction 50, 6-7 March 1986, lot 208; E.M. Ortiz Collection, Spink Auction 87, 9 October 1991, lot 1670.
Pridmore included this specimen in his section of modern copies and concoctions. However the cataloguer believes that the style of the countermark and the general characteristics of the coin point to it being a contemporary forgery
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