THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
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Authority of July 1781, One Escalin, a Spanish-American cob 2 Réales trimmed to a round shape, obv. countermarked with a C on a crowned anchor raised within a shaped indent, 2.40g/37.0 gr (VG 4; Rudman p.8;KM 8.1). About fine, very rare
£300-400 Provenance: A. Mangones Collection, Harmer Rooke Auction (New York), 8 April 1976, lot 241 (part)
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——— One Escalin, a Spanish-American cob Réal, 1714, trimmed to a round shape, rev. countermarked with a C on a crowned anchor raised within a shaped indent, 2.20g/34.0 gr (VG 4; Rudman p.8; KM 8.2). About fine, very rare
£300-400
Provenance: A. Mangones Collection, Harmer Rooke Auction (New York), 8 April 1976, lot 241 (part). Although this is a one réal host coin, the weight would indicate that it was intended to circulate at the value of one escalin
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——— Half-Escalin, a Spanish-American cob Réal, trimmed to a round shape, obv. countermarked with a C on a crowned anchor raised within a shaped indent, 1.18g/18.2 gr (VG 2; Rudman p.8; KM 7.2). About fine, very rare
£300-400
Provenance: A. Mangones Collection, Harmer Rooke Auction (New York), 8 April 1976, lot 242 (part) Haiti
The series of pierced dollars now attributed to Haiti have previously been attributed to several West Indian islands. The countermark has been called a pineapple and attributed to Jamaica and later Barbados; it has also been called a crab and attributed to Vieques, an island just off the south-east coast of Puerto Rico. The pierced dollars uncountermarked have previously been attributed to St. Kitts. Research by F. Carl Braun, ‘A Triple Numismatic Enigma of the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean: Haiti, Barbados, St Kitts, or Vieques?’, published by the American Numismatic Society as part of the Coinage of the Americas Conference series, properly attributes these coins to Haiti and identifies the countermark as a palm tree (Hispaniola Wine Palm, Pseudophoenix vinifera) a species indigenous only to the island of Hispaniola (Haiti occupying the western third of the island and the Dominican Republic the eastern two thirds).
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Authority of June 1811, Dollar (valued at Eleven Escalins), MEXICO, Charles III, 8 Réales, 1780FF, Mexico City, centrally pierced from the obv. and countermarked with a palm tree raised within a rectangular indent, 19.98g/308.3 gr (Braun, table 3, A-3; Prid. Barbados 8 [Sale, lot 165, this coin]). Waterworn, extremely rare
£1,500-2,000
Provenance: H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1942; F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 165; I. Rudman Collection [exchanged with I.R. March 1988]
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——— Quarter-Dollar (valued at Two and Three-Quarter Escalins), MEXICO, Charles III, Two Réales, 1781FF, Mexico City, centrally pierced, obv. countermarked with a palm tree raised within a rectangular indent, 6.76g/104.3 gr (Braun, table 4, B-5; Prid. Barbados 9 [Sale, lot 166, this coin]). Coin fine, countermark about extremely fine, later a plug inserted, extremely rare
£2,000-2,500
Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 166; I. Rudman Collection [from I.R. March 1982].
The plug was most likely inserted so that the coin could pass into circulation in a different locality These lots are illustrated on our web site
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