Holey Dollars & Dumps
Lot 1222 Session 5 (7.30pm Tuesday) Holey Dollars & Dumps
Estimate $70,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $64,000
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck from a Charles III Mexico City Mint eight reales 1797 FM (Mira-Noble 1797/- unlisted, dies B/10:II/9.30). Countermarks clear both sides with sharp H for Henshall on the obverse, nearly very fine, the coin overall good fine and rare.
A previously unrecorded example. Acquired recently on the north western coast of the U.S.A. in a small group of silver coins suggesting the coin could be a remainder from an old seafarer's accumulation.
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