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Triton XIX Sessions 3 & 4 - Adams Collection 6 January 2016
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GIBRALTAR, British Occupation. 1704-1713. AV Dinar (23mm, 3.37 g). IA to left of vertical key, all in square cartouche countermarked on a dinar bunduqi of 'Alawi Sharif Isma'il al-Samin from the Fez mint dated AH 1090. Unpublished, but see Garrett II, 1602 and BMC Oriental 273 for a similar counterstamp reading JR(key). For undertype: Album 583. Countermark Good VF, Host Coin VF. Extremely rare and possibly unique.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, November 1988.
This enigmatic countermark is dated to the period of the British occupation of Gibraltar, prior to its incorporation into the British Empire with the Treaty of Utrecht, on the strength of its undertype. While this exact countermark is not known beyond the present example, two similar stamps with the letter JR and the key symbol – the emblem of Gibraltar – are known from examples in Garrett and the BM.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, November 1988.
This enigmatic countermark is dated to the period of the British occupation of Gibraltar, prior to its incorporation into the British Empire with the Treaty of Utrecht, on the strength of its undertype. While this exact countermark is not known beyond the present example, two similar stamps with the letter JR and the key symbol – the emblem of Gibraltar – are known from examples in Garrett and the BM.