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Create new listThe issuer was John Cartwright (1740-1824), proprietor of the Revolution Mill, built on the north side of Spital Hill, Retford, and opened in 1788. The mill was in disuse by the turn of the 19th century and after the building was sold in 1805, Cartwright moved to London.
Merchant Issues - silver, England, Nottinghamshire, East Retford, Revolution Mill, a Mexico, Charles III, 8 Reales, 1778ff, Mexico City, obv. countermarked with a crowned ampersand, 26.91g/12h (Manville 105; Hodge 105E.004a, this coin; Davis 41). Coin and countermark about very fine, scarce £800-£1,000
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Scottish Merchant Dollars from the Collection of Michael Gietzelt.
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J.B. Caldecott Collection, Sotheby Auction, 11-13 June 1912, lot 471; Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 20 November 1964, lot 2216; SCMB September 1972 (5906); Pastor J.F. Rowlands Collection, Spink Auction 4, 22 February 1979, lot 722; The Property of a Gentleman, Spink Auction 136, 6-7 October 1999, lot 1562
“The lack of a issuer’s name and a denomination place this countermark early in the countermarking period, before marks began to show more details. In fact the mark might never have been connected with the Revolution Mill had it not been for a notation by Sarah Sophia Banks in her acquisitions notebook... that she had received one in 1794.” [Manville p.210].
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