Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Lot 1813 Session 7 (11.30am Wednesday) Great Britain Silver & Bronze
Estimate $2,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $8,000
SCOTLAND, Renfrewshire, Greenock, merchant countermarked dollar, John McKelvie & Son, four shillings and sixpence on a Ferdinand VII, Guatemala Mint eight reales, 1821, countermarked J.McK.&Son Greenock around 4/6 in a sunken circle with indented edge on the obverse. Attractive deep toned, extremely fine, probably the finest known.
Ex Glendinings, 29 May 1929 (lot 96), A.Thelluson (lot 390), H.M.Lingford (lot 761), H.D.Gibbs (lot 348), H.Manville, Walter Allen (lot 94), W.J.Noble (lot 1690) and B.J.Hibbard collections.
Illustrated on the front cover of Spink 34. Thirty five known (Manville p.113).
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