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Auction 149 25 Sep 2018
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Guadeloupe
WORLD COINS, Guadeloupe, French Administration: Authority of November 1802, Escalin, Charles IIII, a cut segment from the edge of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 1806, after a central octagonal plug had been removed, rev. countermarked with incuse rf, 2.25g/34.7gr (Prid. p.229, fig. 17; VG 2; KM. 2). Coin and countermark very fine, extremely rare £2,000-2,600
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Provenance: J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 134 (part); E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 163.
Many modern fakes exist and only seven or eight original examples, including this one, are known
WORLD COINS, Guadeloupe, French Administration: Authority of November 1802, Escalin, Charles IIII, a cut segment from the edge of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, 1806, after a central octagonal plug had been removed, rev. countermarked with incuse rf, 2.25g/34.7gr (Prid. p.229, fig. 17; VG 2; KM. 2). Coin and countermark very fine, extremely rare £2,000-2,600
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Provenance: J.J. Ford Jr Collection, Glendining Auction, 16 October 1989, lot 134 (part); E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 163.
Many modern fakes exist and only seven or eight original examples, including this one, are known