British, Irish and Scottish Coins

Ireland, Co Kilkenny, Castlecomer, a Mexico, Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1796fm, Mexico City, obv. countermarked payable at castle comer colliery around 5s 5d, 26.54g/12h (Manville 108, and p.221, this coin listed; Seaby, BNJ 1965, pl.xv, 3, this coin). Coin fine but flan slightly bent, countermark very fine £4,000-5,000

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: R.F. Peltzer Collection, Glendining Auction, 20-4 June 1927, lot 237; D.S. Napier Collection, Glendining Auction, 30 May 1956, lot 299; SCMB November 1957 (7356); Glendining Auction, 14 December 1967, lot 249; bt Baldwin 1987.

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. The reference to SCMB November 1967 in the Manville pedigree for this coin should be ignored