British West Indies - Cut & Countermarked
Lot 1357 SESSION 6 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 1ST APRIL) British West Indies - Cut & Countermarked
Estimate $350
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $900
ST. KITTS, black doggs, French Cayenne copper two sous, 1789A countermarks S incuse on the reverse (Pr.4; KM.1), another countermarked SK on the obverse (Pr.5) (KM.2), another, but a contemporary forgery (Pr.6), also late forgeries of cut half eight reales Charles IIII 179(?) obverse countermarked with three incuse S (P.10; KM.5), one eighth dollar countermarked with incuse S (P.12; KM.3). Fine or better. (5)
Ex Mark E. Freehill Collection and ex R.Gordon Collection (Baldwins Sale 8, 1996, lots 41-3).
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