The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

St Lucia, Authority of January 1813, Six Livres Fifteen Sous, Charles IIII, a cut centre segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 1802, obv. countermarked s: lucie raised within a shaped indent, 15.35g/236.9gr (Prid. 9 [Sale, lot 314]; VG 17; KM. 10.1). Coin and countermark nearly very fine, rare £700-900

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins.

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Provenance: Brought back from the West Indies by a merchant seaman early in the 20th century and kept by his grand-daughter until 1977; bt B.J. Dawson 1977