The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Grenada, Proclamation of 31 July 1798, Sixty-Six Shillings, a Maria I, 6,400 Réis, obv. countermarked with script jr raised within an oval indent on a central plug and incuse g applied three times around the circumference, 11.67g/180.1gr (Gordon 7c, this coin; Prid. 6; KM. 3). Coin fine, edge heavily clipped, countermarks very fine, extremely rare
£3,000-4,000

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

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Provenance: Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 2 June 1957, lot 2377; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 291 [from K.V. Eckardt March 1984]