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

Barbados (General West Indies), 8 dwt 8 grain Standard, Authority of June 1791 (in effect for six weeks), Two Pounds Ten Shillings, Brazil, Joseph I, 6,400 Réis, 1770, Rio, 12.92g/199.4 gr/8.31 dwt (cf. Chalmers pp.53-4). Light scratch across portrait and lightly clipped around the edge, otherwise very fine and 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.

View
Collection

Provenance: Sotheby Auction (Geneva), 9-10 November 1987, lot 209