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WORLD COINS, Martinique, Authority of September 1805, Twenty Livres per gros, a Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1756, Bahia, obv. countermarked 20 over eagle raised within a shaped indent, 9.04g/139.5gr (Gordon 18; Prid. p.242, fig. 23). Coin fine but moderate to heavy clipping around the edge, countermark very fine, rare £1,500-2,000
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Provenance: Henry Christensen Auction 86 (New York), 9-10 December 1983, lot 971; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 232 [from K.V. Eckardt November 1984]
WORLD COINS, Martinique, Authority of September 1805, Twenty Livres per gros, a Joseph I, counterfeit 6,400 Réis, 1756, Bahia, obv. countermarked 20 over eagle raised within a shaped indent, 9.04g/139.5gr (Gordon 18; Prid. p.242, fig. 23). Coin fine but moderate to heavy clipping around the edge, countermark very fine, rare £1,500-2,000
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Provenance: Henry Christensen Auction 86 (New York), 9-10 December 1983, lot 971; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 232 [from K.V. Eckardt November 1984]