The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, British Administration: Proclamation of February 1813, Two Livres Five Sous, contemporary counterfeit, a lightweight cut quarter-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, with crenated edges (a contemporary counterfeit Martinique Moco), rev. countermarked three times with crowned g raised within a rectangular indent, 4.78g/73.8gr (Prid. 13, this coin, where described as a modern copy). Coin and countermarks very fine £200-300

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

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Provenance: H.M. Lingford Collection [from Spink May 1940]; bt Baldwin 1982.

It is highly unlikely that a modern fake would be made so crudely and light in weight