Anguilla 1967 dollar KM-X5

Stack's Bowers May 2024 Collector's Choice sale, lot 34001

This specimen was lot 34001 in Stack's Bowers Collector's Choice sale (Costa Mesa, CA, May 2024), where it sold for $288. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ANGUILLA. Anguilla - Philippines. Dollar, 1967. NGC VF Details--Cleaned. A "Liberty Dollar" counterstamped on a 1908-S Philippines Peso to support the Anguillan secession movement. SCARCE on this host coin, and desirable as such despite the noted cleaning." A newspaper editor and coin collector in San Francisco fabricated these to raise money for his friends in Anguilla, an island in the Caribbean. He counterstamped a variety of readily available silver coins, including this peso. As they never circulated, Krause has consigned them to Unusual World Coins.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: host coin 20 g, 0.800 fine silver, reeded edge.

Catalog reference: KMX-5.

Source:

• Cuhaj, George S., and Thomas Michael, Unusual World Coins, 6th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2011.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, May 2024 World Collectors Choice Online Auction, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2024.

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