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Auction 149 25 Sep 2018
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WORLD COINS, The Gambia, Authority not traced, c. 1837-1839, Quarter-Dollar (presumably valued at Thirteen Pence), Ferdinand VII, a cut quarter-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, rev. countermarked with incuse vr, 6.95g/107.2gr (Vice, p.162; Pridmore, SNC November 1961 [Sale, lot 698]). Coin fine, countermark very fine, very rare; reportedly only four specimens recorded, two of which are in the Ashmolean Museum £400-600
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Provenance: J.D.A. Thompson Collection [as a gift from Wartski, Llandudno, c. 1935]; SNC September 1971 (9130); E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 361.
Vice states that there is no foundation for Pridmore's attribution for Gambia to have issued these coins
WORLD COINS, The Gambia, Authority not traced, c. 1837-1839, Quarter-Dollar (presumably valued at Thirteen Pence), Ferdinand VII, a cut quarter-segment of a Spanish-American 8 Réales, rev. countermarked with incuse vr, 6.95g/107.2gr (Vice, p.162; Pridmore, SNC November 1961 [Sale, lot 698]). Coin fine, countermark very fine, very rare; reportedly only four specimens recorded, two of which are in the Ashmolean Museum £400-600
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Provenance: J.D.A. Thompson Collection [as a gift from Wartski, Llandudno, c. 1935]; SNC September 1971 (9130); E. Roehrs Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 87, 28 September 2010, lot 361.
Vice states that there is no foundation for Pridmore's attribution for Gambia to have issued these coins