The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, French Administration: Authority of April 1804, Twenty Livres per gros, a Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1772b, a lightweight forgery made to the Leeward Is. 7dwt (168 grains) weight standard, then countermarked on Guadeloupe, obv. with an unidentified symbol (described as a cockade and a heart and a g raised within a shaped indent) later overstamped with 20 raised within a shaped indent, 10.92g/168.5gr (Gordon –; Prid. Not Attributed –; cf. Glendining, 10 July 1996, lot 481). Scrape on face, otherwise coin and 20 countermark very fine, of the highest rarity £3,000-4,000

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

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Provenance: Sotheby Auction, 15-16 November 1984, lot 789; E. Roehrs Collection, Part II, DNW Auction 96, 17 November 2011, lot 516