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NYINC Signature Sale 3038 13-14 January 2015
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George III Contemporary Imitation Countermarked Dollar ND (1797) XF40 PCGS, Manufactured in Birmingham ca. 1797, cf. KM627. A Sheffield plate contemporary imitation of a Santiago 1792 So-DA 8 Reales with a counterfeit oval George III countermark. This very good contemporary copy has fooled a present-day third party grading company and was likely readily accepted in its period of manufacture since well-worn examples of these same dies are also known (note that a similar specimen was included in the A. Patterson sale (Bonham's 7/1996, lot 554) as an original issue but later withdrawn as a counterfeit). Originals of this issue gave rise to the saying "The Bank (of England) to make their Spanish dollars pass, stamped the head of a fool on the neck of an ass". A good early work on these and other related counterfeit Spanish Colonial issues manufactured at Birmingham is Paul Bordeaux's "Les fausses Piastres de Birmingham" (1903). A most interesting and eminently collectible issue, scarce with the silver plating essentially complete.
Estimate: 300-500 USD
George III Contemporary Imitation Countermarked Dollar ND (1797) XF40 PCGS, Manufactured in Birmingham ca. 1797, cf. KM627. A Sheffield plate contemporary imitation of a Santiago 1792 So-DA 8 Reales with a counterfeit oval George III countermark. This very good contemporary copy has fooled a present-day third party grading company and was likely readily accepted in its period of manufacture since well-worn examples of these same dies are also known (note that a similar specimen was included in the A. Patterson sale (Bonham's 7/1996, lot 554) as an original issue but later withdrawn as a counterfeit). Originals of this issue gave rise to the saying "The Bank (of England) to make their Spanish dollars pass, stamped the head of a fool on the neck of an ass". A good early work on these and other related counterfeit Spanish Colonial issues manufactured at Birmingham is Paul Bordeaux's "Les fausses Piastres de Birmingham" (1903). A most interesting and eminently collectible issue, scarce with the silver plating essentially complete.
Estimate: 300-500 USD