The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, French Administration: Authority of November 1802, Escalin, Charles IIII, a cut segment from the edge of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 1806, after a central octagonal plug had been removed, rev. countermarked with incuse rf, 2.25g/34.7gr (Prid. p.229, fig. 17; VG 2; KM. 2). Coin and countermark very fine, extremely rare £2,000-2,600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins.

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Provenance: J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 134 (part); E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 163.

Many modern fakes exist and only seven or eight original examples, including this one, are known