British, Irish and Scottish Coins

Scotland, RENFREWSHIRE, Greenock, a Mexico, Ferdinand VII, 8 Réales, 1821rg, Zacatecas, obv. countermarked j · mck. & Son greenock around 4/6, 26.85g/12h (Manville 58, and p.114, this coin listed). Coin and countermark good fine
£900-1,200

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: ‘Bostonian Collection’, Bank Leu Auction 51 (Zurich), 24-6 October 1990, lot 685; bt Baldwin 1990.

The probable issuer was John McKelvie, grocer and spirit dealer, 25 Dalrymple street, and his son, John junior, wholesale grocer and tea dealer, 16 Shaw street (Manville p.113). The provenance of this coin as originally quoted in Manville confused it with another privately owned example (Manville, SNC June 2002, p.117, amended)