THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
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Provenance: Bt J. Peters April 1969 One Cent, U.S.A., Cent, 1817, obv. countermarked RF raised within a rectangular indent, 10.01g/154.4 gr. Coin fair,
countermark fine £70-90
One Cent, GREAT BRITAIN, George III, Halfpenny, 1806, obv. countermarked RF raised within a rectangular indent, 8.92g/137.6 gr. A modern copy of the countermark for illustrative comparison purposes only [NOT FOR SALE]
Provenance: Bt J. Peters September 1966 New Orleans
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Quarter-Dollar (presumably valued at 25 Cents, c. 1812-14), a lightweight cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with federal eagle within a circular border, NOUVELLE ORLEANS raised within a circular indent around, rev. countermarked PB (Planters Bank) surrounded by a raised chain border within a circular indent, 4.84g/74.6 gr (cf. Garrett 2031). Coin very worn, countermarks very fine, extremely rare
£2,000-2,500
Provenance: R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction (Los Angeles), 13-15 June 1975, lot 1259 [illustration in Byrne sale catalogue incorrect: see Ray Byrne, ‘Puech-Bein & Their Tokens’, The Numismatist, July 1975, p.1495, lower image]
Research by Robert Leonard Jr. has established the Planters Bank as the issuer for the cut quarter-dollar segments countermarked on one side with PB in a chain circle and on the other side with a federal eagle and the legend NOUVELLE ORLEANS
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Quarter-Dollar, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales (perhaps a Mexican Revolutionary issue), obv. countermarked with federal eagle within a circular border, NOUVELLE ORLEANS raised within a circular indent around, rev. countermarked PB (Planters Bank) surrounded by a raised chain border within a circular indent, later countermarked with script BAD raised within an oval indent over the PB stamp, presumably to indicate that the actual cut quarter segment was sub-standard, 5.97g/92.1 gr (cf. Garrett 2031). Coin fine, countermarks very fine, extremely rare; only two other specimens recorded with the additional BAD stamp
£2,500-3,000 Provenance: Bt in Hamburg (Germany) 1998 Prince Edward Island
Authorised by a Minute of the Executive Council of the P.E.I. Legislative Assembly, dated 22 September 1813, an amount not to exceed one thousand Spanish dollars would have a circular piece taken from the centre, the resulting ring being valued at five shillings and the centre piece valued at one shilling. Both centre and ring would have a distinctive countermark. Almost immediately certain members of the public introduced forgeries and the proliferation of them caused the Council to issue a proclamation announcing that it would redeem all of the official pieces up to 28 September 1814. It is not possible to determine the official countermark from the contemporary forgeries, but it would be reasonable to think that specimens of crude fabrication or dollars without a countermark are contemporary forgeries. However, this does not mean that dollars with well made countermarks and piercings are official. Once the official pieces were redeemed the contemporary forgeries continued to circulate by local convention for at least ten years.
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