Lot 841

Description

New South Wales, Five shillings or Holey Dollar, 1813, countermarked on the inner circle of a centrally hole punched Mexico, Charles III, eight reales, 1799FM (Mexico City Mint) (Mira-Noble 1799/7, dies I/5:A/4; Spalding 81). A sharply struck countermark with fleur-de-lis dividing five shillings die, the host coin evenly worn and nearly very fine, the countermark virtually extremely fine, very rare as such, one of the top twenty holey dollars known with nice old cabinet tone and provenance history. Good, very fine

Ex A. Thellusson (Sotheby's 19-20 October 1931, lot 403); C.C. Browne (Sotheby's 25-28 March 1935, lot 564); Major A.W. Foster (Glendinings 14th October 1953, lot 222); G.E. Hearn (London); K. Frost (Max Stern & Company Sale November 1976, lot 226); R. Brooke (P.J. Downie Sale 14 September 1978, lot 351); P.F Worth (Spink Australia Sales 24, March 1988, lot 1041); R.A. Climpson (Spink Noble Sale 36, July 1991, lot 1242) Collections, I.S. Wright (per L. Nugent) Status Sale then Noble Numismatics Sale 96, April 2011 (lot 1349) and Sale 111, April 2016 (lot 1089).