The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Virgin Islands – Tortola, Issues c. 1802-05, Quarter-Dollar, a cut quarter-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked tirtila raised within a shaped indent, 5.87g/90.6gr (Prid. 9 [Sale, lot 191]; Pridmore, SNC September 1974, type II). Coin nearly worn smooth, countermark very fine £200-260

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

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Provenance: Coin Galleries Mailbid Sale, 15 July 1998 (967); bt K.V. Eckardt 2012