Lanarkshire (1811) 5 shillings
This specimen was lot 30509 in Heritage sale 3042 (Long Beach, September 2015), where it sold for $1,233.75. The catalog description[1] noted, " Lanarkshire. Five Shillings Countermark on a Ferdinand VII Mexico 8 Reales ND (1811) VG10 PCGS, New Lanark. Robert Owen's Lanark Mills. PAYABLE AT LANARK MILLS countermarked on the obverse in a large circle with 5/ in the center. Very rare." Scotland in the early nineteenth century was tearing into the Industrial Revolution and manufacturers were eager for coin to facilitate trade. As the Royal Mint could not keep up, many private issues appeared. Spanish dollars circulated freely and many of these were countermarked; the SCWC records over a hundred different countermarks. Today they are all rare. This counterstamp is attributed to 1811 but, being placed on an 1816 bust dollar, was actually done later.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 27.07 g, 0.896 fine silver, .780 troy oz ASW (host coin).
Catalog reference: KM-CC66.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- [1]Cristiano Bierrenbach, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage World Coin Auction 3042, featuring the Read and Bob Bennett Collections, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2015.
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