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

The Gambia, Quarter-Dollar (value Thirteen Pence ?, c. 1830s ?), Ferdinand VII, a cut quarter segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, rev. countermarked with incuse vr, 6.94g/107.1 gr (Vice, p.162; cf. 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 Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins formed by the late Edward Roehrs.

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Provenance: J.D.A. Thompson Collection [as a gift from Wartski, Llandudno, c. 1935]; SNC September 1971 (9130).

Despite the proposed attribution of these coins to the Gambia by Pridmore in 1961, there is no foundation for such a suggestion (Vice, p.162).