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Auction 149  25 Sep 2018
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Lot 5267

Estimate: 60 GBP
Price realized: 160 GBP
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Essequibo and Demerara

WORLD COINS, ESSEQUIBO & DEMERARA, A Charles III Half-Réal, 1781, partially cut with a special tool designed to produce three 'light weight cut half-segments' and leave the centre segment for the melting pot, 1.25g/19.3gr (cf. Prid. p.32 for discussion of this coin type). Obverse fair, reverse fine, rare and interesting £60-80

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Provenance: E.A.V. Abraham Collection; A.N. Brushfield Collection, Part IV, Glendining Auction, 30-1 July 1945, lot unspecified; R.C. Gordon Collection, Baldwin Auction 8, 7 October 1996, lot 196
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