British, Irish and Scottish Coins

Scotland, BUTE-SHIRE, Rothsay, a Mexico, Ferdinand VII, 8 Réales, 1819jj, Mexico City, obv. countermarked rothsay cotton works around 4/6 1820, privy mark of a small dot at base of shield, 26.44g/12h (Manville 92, and p.181, this coin listed). Coin fair, countermark about very fine
£600-800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Countermarked Dollars, Property of the late Lt.-Cdr W. E. McLaughlin.

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Provenance: V.M. Brand Collection; Mrs R. Henry Norweb Collection, Part IV, Spink Auction 59, 17 June 1987, lot 1628.

The Rothsay cotton works, built in 1779 by James Kenyon, was acquired by David Dale (1739-1806) in 1785. By 1815 the business had passed into the ownership of two Glaswegians, William Kelly and Robert Thom, who were responsible for the issue of the tokens, which could only be spent at the company shop. For further details of the privy mark, see Hodge, BNJ 2009, p.245