The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Guadeloupe, British Administration: Decree of May 1811, Forty-Five Sou Moco, Charles IIII, a cut quarter-segment of the Nine Livre Dollar (after the central square plug had been removed) derived from a [17]91 8 Réales, Mexico City, cut from the rev. with crenated edges and rev. countermarked twice with crowned g raised within a shaped indent, 5.39g/83.2gr (cf. Prid. 15-21 [Sale, cf. lots 409-12]; VG 28; KM. 34). Coin and countermarks very fine, very rare
£500-600

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

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Provenance: Bt Baldwin 1982.

Pridmore did not have access to the May 1811 Act, apparently did not see or recognise a genuine example and accordingly he classified all as modern concoctions