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Create new listPercy Main Colliery, on the lands of the Duke of Northumberland between Wallsend and North Shields, was opened in 1796 and operated until 1851.
Merchant Issues - silver, England, NORTHUMBERLAND, North Shields, Percy Main Colliery, a PERU, Charles IIII, 8 Reales, 1805jp, Lima, obv. countermarked percy main colliery . around 5/-, 27.22g/12h (Manville 106, and p.213; Hodge 106E-004a, this coin; KM. CC91). Sometime pierced and plugged at 12 o’clock, coin nearly fine, countermark a little better, extremely rare £1,500-£2,000
This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Scottish Merchant Dollars from the Collection of Michael Gietzelt.
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Glendining Auction, 18-20 September 1929, lot 169; D.S. Napier Collection, Glendining Auction, 30 May 1956, lot 286 (part); Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 14-15 February 1958, lot 2641; Spink Auction 90, 16 March 1992, lot 529; Spink Auction 259, 28 January 2019, lot 1303
The dating of this coinage is not certain but they most likely circulated c. 1808-1810 [Manville p.212].
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