Tortola (British Virgin Islands), 1 shilling, countermark TORTOLA within shaped indent (Type 1/a, ca. 1801) on an eighth-cut segment of a Spanish colonial bust 8 reales, rare, PCGS G06, c/m VF detail.Prid-4; KM-5.3.34 grams.Bold and deep countermark (partially encrusted, darkly toned) that appears to be an extremely rare early die-state, no important host details, light old scratches, nicely toned, technically the finer of just two in the PCGS census.Pedigreed to the Dix Noonan Webb auction of November 2015 (lot 625).
($500-750)