Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 2018. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $580. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ECUADOR, Local Coinage. Galapagos Islands. 1890s. AR Sucre (25.03 g, 6h). Incuse circular framed RA monogram (Rogelio Alvarado) countermark on obverse of 1884 Peso of Chile (KM 142.1). KM 53 var. (countermark on coin of Ecuador); H. Carlson, “Unusual Hispanic countermarks explained,” World Coin News (May 2005), p. 49 (this coin illustrated). Coin and countermark good VF. Possibly unique.