THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
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Quarter-Dollar (value Thirteen Pence ?, c. 1830s ?), Ferdinand VII, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, rev. countermarked with incuse VR, 6.94g/107.1 gr (Vice, p.162; cf. Pridmore, SNC November 1961 [Sale, lot 698]). Coin fine, countermark very fine, very rare; reportedly only four specimens recorded, two of which are in the Ashmolean Museum
£400-600 Provenance: J.D.A. Thompson Collection [as a gift from Wartski, Llandudno, c. 1935]; SNC September 1971 (9130).
Despite the proposed attribution of these coins to the Gambia by Pridmore in 1961, there is no foundation for such a suggestion (Vice, p.162).
Unattributed
362
Quarter-Dollar, MEXICO, Charles III, 2 Réales, 1776FM, Mexico City, obv. countermarked F12M with floral decoration and rope border raised within an oval indent, 6.65g/102.6 gr (Prid. Not Attributed 20, this coin [Sale, lot 439, this coin]; Duffield 583). Coin good fine and toned, countermark very fine, very rare
£200-300
Provenance: F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 439 [acquired 1947]. This and the following lot have been attributed to Curaçao, but there is no documentation to support this
363
Sixteenth-Dollar, MEXICO, Charles III, Half-Réal, 177([–]FM, Mexico City, obv. countermarked F3M with floral decoration and rope border raised within an oval indent, 1.67g/25.7 gr (Prid. p.282 [not seen]; Duffield 58x). Coin and countermark extremely fine and lightly toned, very rare
£200-300 Provenance: Jacques Schulman Auction (Amsterdam), 3 March 1969, lot 1968
364
SPAIN, Philip V, Two Réales (Pistareen), 1724F, Segovia, obv. countermarked with incuse I within an incuse octagonal frame, 5.90g/91.0 gr (Prid. Not Attributed 32, this coin). Very fine and very rare; only one other specimen, a local find on Barbados, recorded
£100-150
Provenance: J. Meili Collection, Jacques Schulman Auction (Amsterdam), 23 May 1910, lot 2043; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1534; R.A. Byrne Collection, Jess Peters Auction (Los Angeles), 13-15 June 1975, lot 1242
365
A lightweight cut eighth segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, one side countermarked with script LB raised within a shaped indent, 2.63g/40.6 gr (cf. Brunk p.215). Coin worn nearly smooth, countermark very fine
£100-150
Provenance: W. Raymond Collection, Part III, NASCA Auction (New York), 14-16 August 1978, lot 1902. There is a suggestion that this is an issue of the Louisiana Bank, USA
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