Countermarked Silver Dollars
Lot 1598 Countermarked Silver Dollars
Estimate $350
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SOLD $480
PERTHSHIRE, Deanston, John Buchanan's Adelphi Mills, no value stated, a France, Louis XV, half ecu aux lauriers, Strassburg Mint (1726-40) countermarked on the obverse Adelphi Cotton Work around a woolsack (Davis 89). Host coin very worn, countermark very fine, rare.
Ex C.E. Pitchfork Collection (by exchange in 1966). Twenty-one coins of this denomination known.
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