Lot 1587
Sale 58 · Important Australian Coins & Banknotes, The W.J.Noble Collection of British Tokens
Description
Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Sir James Maxwell's Thistle Bank, four shillings and sixpence, a Charles III Mexico City Mint eight reales 1784 counterstamped Thistle Bank in a circle 4/9 in centre, reverse a thistle in centre (Davis 80). Toned good very fine and scarce.
Ex Stack's Sale 6, 7 December 1995 (lot 1616). Forty five coins known with these countermarks. Issue is believed to date from 1804. Puncheon by Robert Gray & Son, Glasgow.
- Estimate
- $600
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $1,950