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Post Medieval counterstruck coin
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West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, 2012-01-31 09:36:40
Title
Post Medieval counterstruck coin
Description
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A Milled Post-Medieval counterfeit silvered copper alloy coin; a contemporary copy of a silver Spanish 'dollar' or eight reales of Charles IV of Spain, counterstruck with the bust of George III (1760-1820).

Due to a shortage in coinage during the late 1790s, a number of coins from South America and Spain were counterstruck with the portrait of George III from 1797 until about 1820. According to Lasser et al. (1997, page 38) in The Coins of Colonial America, the oval counterstamp was used from 1797 until 1804. According to Walden, Timothy (2002), <a href="https://books.google.com/?id=1cW22CKF2UMC">The Spanish Treasure Fleets</a>, Pineapple Press Inc., p. 195, cited in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton,">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton,</a> these coins were extensively forged. This led to Boulton developing a process of obliterating the old coin design when re-issuing further counterstamped coins.

This coin is copper alloy and has been silvered so it is a contemporary forgery. See Spink (2003), page 381, number 3766. It is copying a coin minted in Bolivia at the Potosi mint, indicated by the PTS monogram in the reverse legend.

Reference: <a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_-JrC1XgWnIC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=counterstruck+George+III&source=bl&ots=rVF8sXM8_c&sig=yT8YwCUOXzeOJJl4bg4-IKT82v0&hl=en&ei=mbzPTtboAorqOcqZtaAP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=counterstruck%20George%20III&f=false">Lasser et al:</a>

<a href="https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_-JrC1XgWnIC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=counterstruck+George+III&source=bl&ots=rVF8sXM8_c&sig=yT8YwCUOXzeOJJl4bg4-IKT82v0&hl=en&ei=mbzPTtboAorqOcqZtaAP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=counterstruck%20George%20III&f=false">https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_-JrC1XgWnIC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=counterstruck+George+III&source=bl&ots=rVF8sXM8_c&sig=yT8YwCUOXzeOJJl4bg4-IKT82v0&hl=en&ei=mbzPTtboAorqOcqZtaAP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=counterstruck%20George%20III&f=false</a> . Accessed 25-Nov-2011.

Obverse description: Right facing laureate bust, oval counterstamp of the bust of George III
Obverse inscription: CAROLUS IIII DEI GRATIA / 1796
Reverse description: Crowned rectangular shield with a pillar on each side, ribbon reading PLUS VLTRA
Reverse inscription: HISPAN ET IND REX [PTS monogram] 8R P R

Compare SWYOR-FB3863.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Calderdale
Date between 1797 and 1804
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1797-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1804-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 485347
Old ref: SWYOR-7B5EA7
Filename: PAS_1722_coin.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/367551
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/367551/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/485347
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