CNG 99, Lot: 973. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARRIBEAN TERRITORIES, Dominica. British. temp. George III. 1760-1820. AR 2 Bitts (27mm, 4.73 g). Type II countermark. Struck circa 1764. Heart-shaped piercing with bevelled edge on a Spanish 2 Real of the pretender Carlos III dated 1708. For countermark: Pridmore 8; KM 8 (Martinique). For Host: ME 7979. VF, toned.

Ex Baldwin’s 65 (5 May 2010), lot 1820.