Anguilla 1967 dollar KM-X10.1

Steve Album sale 54, lot 985

This specimen was lot 985 in Steve Album Auction 54 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2026), where it sold for $4,200. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ANGUILLA: Provisional Government, AR liberty dollar, 1967, Referendum on Anguilla's Secession, countermarked on China year 3 (1914) Yüan Shih-kai dollar (KM-329), extremely rare on this host, XF, RRR. These countermarked coins, 'Anguilla Liberty Dollars, July 11, 1967', were made by Scott Newhall, then-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Always on the lookout for a zany antic to splash across the editorial pages of the Chronicle, Newhall embraced the so-called Anguillan revolution of 1967. To facilitate commerce for the revolutionaries, Newhall, an avid coin collector, took 11,600 dollar-sized silver coins and countermarked them in the basement of the Chronicle building in San Francisco. The idea was Newhall would be recompensed for his actual costs, and the new Anguillan government would sell the coins to collectors at a surcharge and keep the profits. It bombed. Just 2,000 to 3,000 were put into commerce, and Newhall was stuck with the balance of the defaced coins, which he eventually sold for the melt price of silver. Many more were melted in the following years and they are now becoming scarce." As they never circulated, Krause has consigned them to Unusual World Coins.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: host coin 26.4 g, 0.890 fine silver, 39 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-X10.1.

Source:

Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
^[1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 54, featuring selections from the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2025.

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