Very Rare Catrine Cotton Works Countermarked Dollar

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1752. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND, Countermarked coinage. Ayrshire, Catrine. Catrine Cotton Works. AR Four Shillings Nine Pence (40mm, 26.94 g). Countermarked circa 1800. CATRINE · COTTON · WORKS · NO 5048 around 4/9 within circle, 8 8 8 between, all countermarked on a 1793 Mo FM 8 Real of Carlos IV of Spain. Hodge, “Secret Marks on Merchant Countermarked Silver Coins,” in BNJ 79 (2009), p. 240-2 (unlisted registration number); Manville 18 (unlisted registration number); KM CC17. Host coin Fine, countermark VF, toned. Very rare.

For another extremely rare countermarked issue, see lot 1763.