The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Tobago, Issues c. 1798, Moco or One-and-a-Half Bitts (valued at One Shilling Three-Halfpence), a circular centre segment from a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with 15 crenations (type II), stamped with a script t radiate, 3.37g/52.0gr (cf. Prid. 2 [Sale, lot 368, this coin]; KM. 9). Very fine, die crack on the left side prominent, very rare £600-800

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

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Provenance: A.H. Baldwin Collection; F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 368 [from Baldwin 1964].

The type II cutting tool had a much steeper edge and would have cut through the dollars with less force. The die crack on the moco rarely appears on specimens of type I, but is present on all of type II, thus establishing the chronological order