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

Leeward Islands (excluding The Virgin Islands), Leeward Islands-Martinique, Authority of September 1805, Twenty Livres per gros, Brazil, Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1767, Rio, obv. countermarked 20 above eagle raised within a shaped indent, 10.97g/169.3 gr (Gordon 18; Prid. p.242, fig. 23). Coin and countermark very fine, rare £1,500-2,000

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: Bowers & Merena Auction, 13-15 September 1993, lot 88.

It should be noted that the weight of this piece, fractionally exceeding 7 dwt, is the standard for the Leeward Islands, but as the coin was seemingly not ‘regulated’ down to this weight it may simply be coincidence