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Greenock, a Mexico, Ferdinand VII, 8 Reales, 1817jj, Mexico City, obv. countermarked mcfie lindsay & coy * greenock * around 4/6, 25.96g/12h (Manville 57, and p.112, this coin listed; McFarlan, SNC July-August 1994, p.258, this coin listed; D 101; Seaby ST 58). Coin fine but pierced, countermark very fine (£600-700)
Provenance:
A.T. Macmillan Collection [from R. Milcarek December 1994].
The previous details of provenance given in Manville should be ignored. McFie, Lindsay & Co, wholesale grocers, 3 William street, fl. 1815-34; their countermarked dollars were withdrawn during August 1828
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