The Roehrs Collection of West Indies Cut and Countermarked Coins (Part I)

Martinique, ——— Twenty Livres per gros, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1756, Bahia, obv. countermarked 20 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, 9.03g/139.4 gr (Gordon 18; Prid. p.242, fig. 23). Coin fine but heavily clipped around the edge, countermark very fine, rare £1,500-2,000

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins formed by the late Edward Roehrs.

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Provenance: Henry Christensen Auction 86, 9-10 December 1983, lot 971; bt K.V. Eckardt November 1984