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

Australia, NEW SOUTH WALES, Authority of June 1813, Holey Dollar (valued at Five Shillings), viceroyalty of peru, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, Lima, centrally pierced and stamped as a border around the piercing, obv. new south wales 1813, rev. five shillings, obv. later countermarked t · knight incuse, 19.53g/301.4 gr (Mira dies II/7.30 and B/1.30, no. 15; KM. 2.13). Coin and stampings worn, T. Knight better, 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: A Highly Important Collection of Holey Dollars and Dumps, Spink Australia Auction No. 24, Part II, 16-17 March 1988, lot 1046