THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
356
——— ‘Dump’ (valued at Fifteen Pence), a circular centre segment from the Five Shilling Holey Dollar, obv. stamped NEW SOUTH WALES 1813 raised around a central crown, rev. stamped FIFTEEN PENCE raised in two lines, edge roughly grained, 5.47g/84.4 gr (Mira dies A/1; KM. 1.1). Fair, rare
£800-1,000 Provenance: J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 275
357
MEXICO, Ferdinand VII, 8 Réales, 1818JJ, Mexico City, converted into a matrix for a waistcoat button, with an offset circular piercing from which replica ‘Dumps’ were produced, 19.21g/296.4 gr (Spalding p.250, fig. 103). Good fine, seemingly very rare; two or three other specimens recorded
£200-300 Provenance: Found in a junk box on a London street market, 1999; DNW Auction 45, 1 March 2000, lot 485.
Philip Spalding writes in his book, The World of the Holey Dollar (1973), that six Spanish-American dollars had circular segments removed in order to make replica dumps which were used as buttons for a gentleman’s waistcoat, c. 1860
Sierra Leone
358
Authority of March 1832, Quarter-Dollar (valued at Thirteen Pence), Charles IIII, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with crowned WR incuse, 5.82g/89.8 gr (Vice FT 2; KM. 10). Coin fair, countermark very fine, very rare
£1,000-1,500 Provenance: Dr W. Tankersley Collection, Baldwin Auction 18, 12-13 October 1998, lot 171
359
Authorisation not traced, Half-Dollar (presumably valued at Twenty-Six Pence), SPAIN, Charles IIII, 4 Réales, 1803CN, Seville, obv. countermarked with crowned WR incuse, 13.24g/204.3 gr (Vice FT 1, this coin; KM. 13). Coin and countermark very fine though the R of the countermark not fully stamped, extremely rare; only two other specimens recorded
£900-1,200 Provenance: J.B. Caldecott Collection, Sotheby Auction, 11-13 June 1912, lot 309; Calico Auction, June 1970, lot 503.
Countermarked half-dollars did not circulate in Sierra Leone and this example is thought to be an experimental striking to test the effectiveness of the broken WR punch (Vice, pp.161, 163)
The Gambia
360
Quarter-Dollar (value Thirteen Pence ?, c. 1830s ?), FRANCE, Louis Philippe I, a cut quarter segment of a 5 Francs [1832+], 6.39g/98.6 gr (Pridmore, SNC February 1954, this coin [Sale, lot 697, this coin]). Fine or better, rare
£80-100 Provenance: Found at Bathurst, Gambia, 1944; F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 697 These lots are illustrated on our web site
www.dnw.co.uk
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48 |
Page 49 |
Page 50 |
Page 51 |
Page 52 |
Page 53 |
Page 54 |
Page 55 |
Page 56 |
Page 57 |
Page 58 |
Page 59 |
Page 60 |
Page 61 |
Page 62 |
Page 63 |
Page 64 |
Page 65 |
Page 66 |
Page 67 |
Page 68 |
Page 69 |
Page 70 |
Page 71 |
Page 72 |
Page 73