IRELAND, Countermarked coinage. Kilkenny. Castle Comer Colliery. AR Dollar (39.5mm, 25.91 g, 11h). Countermarked circa 1804-1806 by Anne, Countess of Ormonde. PAYABLE · AT · CASTLE · COMER · COLLIERY · around 5s,,5d within a tuliped oval border; all within serrated oval cartouche on a Mexican 1804 Mo TH 8 Reales. W.A. Seaby, “Castle Comer Tokens: An Inquiry” in BNJ 34 (1965), pl. XV, 12-4; Manville 108; KM 145.4. Toned. VF. Very rare. Only seven examples recorded by Manville with this host coin.
From the Drewry Family Collection. Ex Norm Appelbaum Collection (Superior, 11 December 1992), lot 1561.
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