The Roehrs Collection of West Indies Cut and Countermarked Coins (Part I)

Haiti, ——— Monnaie d’Haiti (valued at Two Escalins), an irregular-shaped plug from the centre of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with an incuse 2, retrograde, 3.24g/50.0 gr (Braun, table 8, II-8). Very fine and toned, extremely rare £900-1,200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins formed by the late Edward Roehrs.

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Provenance: J.L. Roper Collection, Stack’s Auction (New York), 9 December 1983, lot 585 (part); bt K.V. Eckardt March 1984.

The ticket with the coin suggests a provenance back to 1885, including periods of ownership by Lyman H. Low and Fernan Davies, but this cannot be verified