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

Martinique, Guadeloupe-Martinique, Authority on Guadeloupe April 1804, Twenty-Livres per gros, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1777, Rio, obv. countermarked 20 above the head of an animal raised within a rectangular indent, then countermarked 20 above an eagle raised within a shaped indent (authorised on Martinique September 1805, also for Twenty-Livres per gros), the Martinique stamp obliterating much of the Guadeloupe stamp, 11.33g/174.9 gr (Gordon 112, this coin; Prid. p.230, fig. 21, this coin). Coin about very fine but with some staining on reverse, countermarks very fine or better but their application has caused slight buckling to the coin, extremely rare £4,000-5,000

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: ‘Madrid Collector’, Glendining Auction, 16-17 June 1937, lot 419; bt R.C. Gordon