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WEST INDIES, half cut of a Guatemala City, Guatemala, pillar 8 reales, Ferdinand VI or Charles III,

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WEST INDIES, half cut of a Guatemala City, Guatemala, pillar 8 reales, Ferdinand VI or Charles III,
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WEST INDIES, half cut of a Guatemala City, Guatemala, pillar 8 reales, Ferdinand VI or Charles III, rare. Prid-1 under Barbados. 11.44 grams. While official cut and countermarked issues from the various West Indies islands like Tortola are well cataloged, there are original cut coins without countermarks that cannot be fully attributed, like the present piece, whose cut edge is correct for the period and bears deep toning and circulation wear like the rest of the coin (VF). As Pridmore points out, the island of Barbados was known to have half-cuts of pillar dollars without countermarks, but we cannot rule out the same for other islands on an unofficial basis. In any case, the weight of this piece is a couple grams below half of an 8 reales, so whoever cut it was taking a little bit off for himself.