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Sold on 29 September 2010

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Countermarked Dollars, Property of the late Lt.-Cdr W. E. McLaughlin

Lt.-Cdr W. E. McLaughlin

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№ 1935 x

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29 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£720

Scotland, LANARKSHIRE, Glasgow, a Mexico, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1794fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked thistle bank · around 4/9, rev. countermarked with a thistle placed sideways, 26.68g/12h (Manville 46, and p.93, this coin listed). Trifling obverse edge knock at 7 o’clock and with inverted g stamped in obverse field, otherwise coin and countermarks about very fine £600-800

Provenance: J. Meili Collection; V.M. Brand Collection; Mrs R. Henry Norweb Collection, Part IV, Spink Auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1631