St. Maarten
WORLD COINS, St. Maarten, Authority of January 1798, One Stuiver, a Cayenne 2 Sous, obv. countermarked stm raised within a rectangular indent, 1.34g/20.7gr (Scholten 1418; cf. Prid. p.256: both authors describe this as a square stamp, but in practice it is rectangular). Coin and countermark fair, perhaps better, of the highest rarity; only one other specimen recorded
£600-800
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Provenance: Bt R. Sleet 1993