The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Uncertain location, Eighth-Dollar, contemporary counterfeit, a Philip V, Réal, 1733a, Seville, obv. countermarked 4 raised within a shaped indent, later pierced with a heart-shaped hole (type II), 2.70g/41.7gr (SNC December 2007; cf. Prid. Dominica 9; cf. KM. Martinique 7). Coin and countermark very fine, very rare £100-150

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

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Provenance: Bt W.H. Chaloner 1974.

The numeral countermark has been considered unattributed and it is part of a series of Spanish 1 and 2 réales thus countermarked. As the countermark was applied prior to the heart-shaped hole, and this is c. 1740s, it could be that these various numeral countermarks are related in some way to Gibraltar