Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Countermarked Tokens, Co Kilkenny, Castlecomer, a Bolivia, Charles IV, 8 Reales, 1791pr, Potosi, obv. countermarked payable at castle comer colliery around 5s 5d, 26.83g/12h (Manville 108, this coin listed; D 134; Seaby TJ 1; DF 628). Coin fine and toned, countermark very fine, extremely rare (£2,500-3,000)

Provenance:
From a private German collection formed in the 1920s;
Dorotheum Auktion 487 (Vienna), 30 March 1998, lot 372.

Sold with a note from Dorotheum stating that the original collector who owned the coin died before 1935.

The Castle Comer colliery, located north of Kilkenny, was inherited by Anne, Dowager Countess of Ormonde, from her father, Lord Wandesford. Anne was the patron of the nearby village of Castle Comer, leasing the operation of the local coal mines to entrepreneurs