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[[Image:Scotland 1820 8 reales obv Heritage 3021-22655.jpg|300px|thumb|Heritage sale 3021, lot 22655]]
[[Image:Scotland 1820 8 reales rev Heritage 3021-22655.jpg|300px|thumb|photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries]]

This specimen was lot 22655 in Heritage sale 3021 (New York, January 2013), where it sold for $3,290. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Rothsay Mills, Buteshire 4 Shillings 6 Pence 1820, deeply applied circular countermark on a Mexico 8 Reales 1816-Mo-JJ. Both the host coin and counterstamp are attractively toned VF." 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. [[Mexico 1816-Mo JJ 8 reales|Spanish dollars]] circulated freely and many of these were countermarked; the SCWC records over a hundred different countermarks. Today they are all rare.

''Recorded mintage:'' unknown.

''Specification:'' 27.07 g, 0.896 fine silver, .780 troy oz ASW (host coin). 

''Catalog reference:'' KM-CC100.

''[[Bibliography|Source:]]''
* Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, ''Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed.'', Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
* <sup>[1]</sup>Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, ''Heritage World and Ancient Coins Auction 3021, featuring the Cecil Webster, Richard P. Ariagno and Elizabeth McPhall Charters Collection,'' Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2012.

''Link to:''
* [[Alloa Colliery (1800-20) 5 shillings]]
* [[Deanston ND 5 shillings]]
* [[Lanarkshire (1811) 5 shillings]]
* [[Paisley (1812-20) 5 shillings 3 pence]] J. McLEAN Coll. St. Paisley
* [[Paisley (1814-15) 5 shillings 3 pence]] PAYABLE BY W. LANGMUIR
* [[Rothsay Mills (1811) 2 shillings 6 pence]]
* [[Mexico 1816-Mo JJ 8 reales]]
* [[Great Britain 1819 crown|1819 crown]]
* [[Port Glasgow (1820) 4 shillings 6 pence KM-CC91|Port Glasgow (1820) 4 shillings 6 pence, A. Steven & Sons]]
* [[Coins and currency dated 1820]]
* return to coins of [[Great Britain, Scotland]]

[[Category:Selections from Heritage sale 3021]]