The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, French Administration: Authority of April 1804, Twenty-Two Livres per gros, a Maria I and Peter III, 6,400 Réis, 1784, Rio, obv. countermarked 22.≠ bearded head raised within a rectangular indent, 14.28g/220.4gr (Gordon 16b, this coin; Prid. p.229, fig. 20; KM. 5). Coin and countermark very fine or better but traces of mount on the edge, of the highest rarity £5,000-6,000

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

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Provenance: R.C. Gordon Collection, Baldwin Auction 8, 7 October 1996, lot 198; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 164