Watch List notes:

SCOTLAND, Countermarked coinage. Bute, Rothesay. Rothsay Mills. AR One Shilling Eightpence (34x20mm, 8.30 g). Struck early 19th century. · PAYABLE AT ROTHSAY MILLS in annular cartouche around 1/8 in circular cartouche countermarked on a a cut third of a Mexican 8 Reales dated [179]2 [Mo] FM. For countermark: Manville p. 183, 96 (this coin cited); Boyne, William. "The Silver tokens of Great Britain and Ireland, the Dependencies, and Colonies," (London, 1866), pl. 3, 11 (this coin illustrated). For host: KM 109. Countermark VF, Host Coin VF, toned. Rare.


Ex Bostonian Collection (Leu 51, 24 November 1990), lot 680; Glendining's (24 November 195), lot 260; Francis Cokayne Collection (Part I, Glendining's, 17 July 1946), lot 129; W.J. Davis Collection (29 July 1924), lot 105; William Boyne Collection (Sotheby, Willkinson, & Hodge, 21 January 1896), lot 1429 (part of).