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

Double Island Issues, St. Kitts-Tortola, ——— Half-Dollar, Charles IIII, a lightweight cut half segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, obv. countermarked with incuse s for St. Kitts, c. 1801, and tirtila raised within a shaped indent [type II], 9.03g/139.4 gr (cf. Prid. 27 [cf. Sale, lot 217]). Coin fair, countermarks very fine, very rare £500-600

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: A. van Loan Gaines Collection, Hans Schulman Auction (New York), 24-5 May 1968, lot 1103; A. Patterson Collection, Bonhams Auction, 16-17 July 1996, lot 695.

The extremely light weight of this coin segment and the presence of a single s countermark indicates that the segment was cut down in size to obtain silver for the ‘melting pot’. The other two s countermarks originally present were removed with this process