Triton XIX, Lot: 981. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SCOTLAND, Countermarked coinage. Bute, Rothesay. Rothsay Mills. AR Two Shillings Sixpence (39x19mm, 11.73 g). Struck early 19th century. · PAYABLE AT ROTHSAY MILLS in annular cartouche around 2/6 in rectangular cartouche countermarked on a cut half of a Mexican 8 Reales dated [17]86 [Mo F]M. For countermark: Manville p. 182, 94a; For host: KM 106.2a. Countermark VF, Host Coin Fair, toned.