The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Gibraltar, Second series, Authority untraced, issue of c. 1760, Type IV, Quarter-Dollar (presumably valued at Two Shillings and Tenpence-Halfpenny), a Ferdinand VI, 2 Réales, 1755, Mexico City, centrally pierced with a heart-shaped hole with a patterned border, 5.15g/79.5gr (SNC December 2007; cf. Prid. Dominica 18 [Sale, cf. lot 285]; cf. KM. Martinique 18). Coin nearly very fine, very rare £500-600

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

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Provenance: H.N. Wright Collection; bt Spink 1972