Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

Portuguese colonies: countermarked coins (2): Azores & Mozambique, marks of a crown and 'PM' in a circle each struck twice to a Maria Theresa restrike thaler (Hafner 97 & 99), very fine; Mozambique, 'PM in a circle struck twice to a Maria Theresa restrike thaler (Hafner 99), very fine or better; together with Portuguese Mozambique: countermarked coins (2), the first struck with 'PM' in a circle, the next with a crowned 'PM', the donor coins being Maria Theresa restrike thalers (Hafner 99, 100), very fine and good very fine; and Djibouti, a countermarked Maria Theresa restrike thaler, struck with a seal mark 'Abd Latíf Má'a al-Fadah, bi Jíbútí', and a second mark of '830' (Hafner 102.2), good very fine. [5]

The provenance of countermarked Maria Theresa thalers is subject to academic uncertainty, and it is possible that countermarks are spurious.