THE COLLECTION OF CUT AND COUNTERMARKED COINS FORMED BY THE LATE EDWARD ROEHRS (Part I)
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A cut eighth segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, one side countermarked with script BF (the second letter has been interpertated as a G or an I), raised within a shaped indent, 3.12g/48.1 gr (Prid. Not Attributed 47, this coin; Mailliet, Supplement II, pl. 9, no. 40, this coin). Coin worn, countermark very fine
£100-150 Provenance: F.C. Krohn Collection, 1883; H.M. Lingford Collection [from Baldwin August 1948]; bt Baldwin
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Black Dogg (?), a worn Cayenne 2 Sous-sized coin, one side countermarked with SP monogram raised within a shaped indent, 1.96g/30.2 gr (Fonrobert 7857, this coin; Guttag 4877, this coin; Howland Wood p.126). Coin worn smooth, countermark very fine
£40-60
Provenance: J. Fonrobert Collection; W. Bergsøe Collection, Jacques Schulman Auction (Amsterdam), 14 April 1903, lot 1048; J. Guttag Collection; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 18-19 March 1966, lot 1824; bt P. Downie 1981.
It has been suggested that is this is a token, perhaps for coaling, from St. Pierre, Martinique. St. Pierre was the commercial centre of the island prior to the devastating eruption of Mount Pele in 1902, which virtually destroyed the entire town
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Provenance: Glendining Auction, 4 April 1979, lot 355 (part); bt Spink Stampee (valued at Twopence-Farthing), a plain flan with die-struck crown C, one side countermarked with a crude
incuse border around the crown (Prid. Not Attributed 45, this coin). Countermark fine £20-30
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BRAZIL, Joseph I, counterfeit 6400 Réis, 1769, Rio, a very lightweight forgery not comparable to any particular island standard, 9.02g/139.2 gr/5.80 dwt. Graffiti in obverse field and clipped around the edge, otherwise better than fine, rare
£500-600 Provenance: UBS Auktion 56 (Basel), 28-30 January 2003, lot 3599
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BRAZIL, Maria I and Peter III, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1780, Rio, a lightweight forgery not comparable to any particular island standard, 10.58g/163.3 gr/6.80 dwt (cf. Gordon p.41). Good fine but some surface marks
£700-900 Provenance: Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 10 April 1985, lot 622 These lots are illustrated on our web site
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