World Coins

Virgin Islands – Double Island issues, Martinique-Tortola, Quarter-Dollar, a contemporary forgery Martinique ‘Moco’, c. 1797, cut from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 17[—], with opposite cut crenated edges, rev. countermarked tortola raised within a shaped indent [type I/b early die state, countermark double struck], 6.06g/93.5gr (Prid. 33 [Sale, lot 225]). Coin and countermark fine, the latter blurred by the double striking £200-250