The Gambia, Authority not traced, c. 1837-1839, Quarter-Dollar (presumably valued at Thirteen Pence), Ferdinand VII, a cut quarter-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, rev. countermarked with incuse vr, 6.95g/107.2gr (Vice, p.162; 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

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins.

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Provenance: J.D.A. Thompson Collection [as a gift from Wartski, Llandudno, c. 1935]; SNC September 1971 (9130); E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 361.

Vice states that there is no foundation for Pridmore’s attribution for Gambia to have issued these coins