Scottish Countermarked Dollars
Lot 1857 Session 6 (9.30am Wednesday 19th November) Scottish Countermarked Dollars
Estimate $600
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SOLD $500
BUTESHIRE, Rothsay Mills, two shillings and sixpence, a cut half of a Charles III Mexico City Mint eight reales, 1773 countermarked with 'Payable at Rothsay Mills' in a circle around 2/6 in a sunken inner circle (Manville 93). Evenly worn, flat in centre of countermark, legend good fine, overall good and very rare.
This example not listed by Manville. Ex K.A.Hicks Collection.
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