Lot 3556

Description

West Indies, uncertin countermarked issues, heart-shaped cut coin, (18.6x15.5 mm, 2.57 g), with incuse countermark showing a K? or something similar, (cf.Pridmore West Indies, Dominica 35); Mexico, Veracruz, Coscomatepac, silver cut one real with countermark COSCOMA/ TEPEC in two lines (0.61 grams), (Not in Grove "Tokens of Mexico" or Rulau "Latin American Tokens"). Very fine and rare, both very interesting. (2)

Ex Stack's New York, January 13, 2004 (lot 790) and Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 83 (lot 2497).

Coscomatepac is within the State of Veracruz in Mexico. The municipality is located in the central and mountainous zone of the State, on northeastern spurs of the Tip of Orizaba. The land of the municipality belongs to the classes uneven, escarped and very escarped.