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Auction 149  25 Sep 2018
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Lot 5243

Estimate: 2000 GBP
Price realized: 9500 GBP
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Tobago

WORLD COINS, Tobago, Issues c. 1798, Eleven Bitts (valued at Eight Shillings and Threepence), a Charles IIII, 8 Réales, 1797fm, Mexico City, pierced from the obverse with a central hole with 14 crenations (type I), 23.40g/361.1gr (Prid. 1, this coin [Sale, lot 367, this coin]; KM. 12). Very fine and the highest rarity £2,000-3,000

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Provenance: A.H. Baldwin Collection; F. Pridmore Collection, Part I, Glendining Auction, 21-2 September 1981, lot 367 [from Baldwin 1964]; E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 300.

The tool to produce this shallow cut must have required tremendous effort to pierce the dollar and either broke or was disregarded early on.
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