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Create new listThe location of issue and identity of the issuer are not known. A possible link between the floral pattern design on inkle linen tapes may connect the issue to an inkle works. Manville [p.99] suggests Dale Campbell & Co and, a possible successor, Dick Campbell & Co.
Merchant Issues - silver, Scotland, Uncertain locality, Glasgow (?), D.C., a Mexico, Charles IIII, 8 Reales, 1804th, Mexico City, obv. countermarked dc and 12-pointed rosette, 26.79g/12h (Manville 51, and pp.100-1; Hodge 051S.014a, this coin). Good fine, countermark better £1,200-£1,500
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Scottish Merchant Dollars from the Collection of Michael Gietzelt.
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J. Schulman Auction (Amsterdam), 26 April 1951, lot 3440; H.D. Gibbs Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 19 November 1960, lot 314; D.W. Grey Auction (London), 31 March 1971, lot 52; SCMB January 1972 (SC 2474); Pastor J.F. Rowlands Collection, Spink Auction 4, 22 February 1979, lot 720; The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 136, 6-7 October 1999, lot 1574
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