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Anguilla - 1967 LIBERTY Dollar on Mexican 5 Pesos

Moneta — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:35:55 -0700

by: Moneta

Description: Counter stamped on Mexico 5 Peso KM#467 The so-called Anguilla Liberty Dollar was initiated as a scam by Scott Newhall, then editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Newhall, on his own, counterstamped between 10 000 and 15 000 mixed coins (mostly silver) with the mark ANGUILLA LIBERTY DOLLAR and JULY 11 1967 before darkening the stamp with ink. Trying to sell his idea to the new provisional government, Newhall failed to have his coin recognized legally and later sold the coins to a coin dealer who kept going with the story to earn money. With the success of these so-called dollars in the coin collectors community, Anguila later issued similar numismatic products in 1968, 1969 and 1970. (Numista). For more details, see A Referendum, a Newspaper Editor & a Coin – The Story of the “Anguilla Liberty Dollar”, Jay Turner, PCGS, 9 April 2020..at this: https://www.pcgs.com/news/story-of-anguilla-liberty-dollar See also: https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2422.htm

Anguilla Liberty $ on Yemen

Moneta — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:49:37 -0800

by: Moneta

Description: From here on down the list of host coins they become very scarce - I've never seen individual coins, scarcer than this Yemen host, for sale. The unusual history of how these special issues came about has finally been revealed in Krause publications "World Coin News" for Jan 2015. ANGUILLA: British Territory, AR liberty dollar, 1967, KM-X4.2, Referendum on Anguilla's Secession, counterstamped on Yemen silver riyal 1963, EF. These counterstamped coins, "Anguilla Liberty Dollar, July 11, 1967 ", were made by Scott Newhall, then-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Always on the lookout for a zany antic to splash across the editorial pages of the Chronicle, Newhall embraced the so-called Anguillan revolution of 1967. To facilitate commerce for the revolutionaries, Newhall, an avid coin collector, took 11,600 dollar-sized silver coins and counterstamped them in the basement of the Chronicle building in San Francisco. The idea was Newhall would be recompensed for his actual costs, and the new Anguillan government would sell the coins to collectors at a surcharge and keep the profits. It bombed. Just 2,000 to 3,000 were put into commerce, and Newhall was stuck with the balance of the defaced coins, which he eventually sold for the melt price of silver. Many more were melted in the following years and they are now becoming scarce.

Anguilla Liberty $ on Peru

Moneta — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 14:10:02 -0800

by: Moneta

Description: Provisional Government during the freedom from British rule movement. I once saw the whole set of these, some extremely rare, sell for under $1000. This one, on a Peruvian Sol, is scarcer that the more common types overstruck on Mexican pesos. The unusual history of how these special issues came about has finally been revealed in Krause publications "World Coin News" for Jan 2015. ANGUILLA: British Territory, AR liberty dollar, 1967, KM-X3, Referendum on Anguilla's Secession, counterstamped on Peru silver sol 1923, EF. These counterstamped coins, "Anguilla Liberty Dollar, July 11, 1967 ", were made by Scott Newhall, then-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Always on the lookout for a zany antic to splash across the editorial pages of the Chronicle, Newhall embraced the so-called Anguillan revolution of 1967. To facilitate commerce for the revolutionaries, Newhall, an avid coin collector, took 11,600 dollar-sized silver coins and counterstamped them in the basement of the Chronicle building in San Francisco. The idea was Newhall would be recompensed for his actual costs, and the new Anguillan government would sell the coins to collectors at a surcharge and keep the profits. It bombed. Just 2,000 to 3,000 were put into commerce, and Newhall was stuck with the balance of the defaced coins, which he eventually sold for the melt price of silver. Many more were melted in the following years and they are now becoming scarce. For more details, see A Referendum, a Newspaper Editor & a Coin – The Story of the “Anguilla Liberty Dollar”, Jay Turner, PCGS, 9 April 2020..at this: https://www.pcgs.com/news/story-of-anguilla-liberty-dollar See also: https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2422.htm

Anguilla countermarked on Mexico

Moneta — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 17:51:02 -0800

by: Moneta

Description: This is the most common (5,987 struck) of this series of Provisional Government Coinage of 1967. This is when the island tried, unsuccessfully, to separate from the union with St. Kitts & Nevis imposed by the British. By 1969 the British landed paratroopers and policemen on the island to restore order. By 1976 Anguilla was declared a self-governing dependent territory. The unusual history of how these special issues came about has finally been revealed in Krause publications "World Coin News" for Jan 2015. ANGUILLA: British Territory, AR liberty dollar, 1967, KM-X2, Referendum on Anguilla's Secession, counterstamped on Mexico silver 5 peso 1948, EF. These counterstamped coins, "Anguilla Liberty Dollar, July 11, 1967 ", were made by Scott Newhall, then-editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Always on the lookout for a zany antic to splash across the editorial pages of the Chronicle, Newhall embraced the so-called Anguillan revolution of 1967. To facilitate commerce for the revolutionaries, Newhall, an avid coin collector, took 11,600 dollar-sized silver coins and counterstamped them in the basement of the Chronicle building in San Francisco. The idea was Newhall would be recompensed for his actual costs, and the new Anguillan government would sell the coins to collectors at a surcharge and keep the profits. It bombed. Just 2,000 to 3,000 were put into commerce, and Newhall was stuck with the balance of the defaced coins, which he eventually sold for the melt price of silver. Many more were melted in the following years and they are now becoming scarce. For more details, see A Referendum, a Newspaper Editor & a Coin – The Story of the “Anguilla Liberty Dollar”, Jay Turner, PCGS, 9 April 2020..at this: https://www.pcgs.com/news/story-of-anguilla-liberty-dollar See also: https://scvhistory.com/scvhistory/lw2422.htm

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