The Lyall Collection of Cut and Countermarked Coins

Grenada-Martinique, Authority on Grenada July 1798, Sixty-Six Shillings, a Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1771, Rio, centrally plugged to bring the coin up to the minimum weight standard of 7dwt 12grains (the stamp of the goldsmith on the plug omitted), obv. countermarked with incuse g three times spaced around the circumference, then countermarked 20 above eagle raised within a shaped indent (authorised on Martinique September 1805, valued at 20 Livres per gros), 11.61g/179.2gr (cf. Gordon 107; cf. Prid. Grenada 19). Coin and countermarks very fine, extremely rare
£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: S.A.H. Whetmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 24-5 March 1943, lot 241; R. Strauss Collection; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 235 [from A.P. de Clermont March 2000].

This is the only recorded specimen for Grenada without a countermark on the plug itself