The Howard Brown Collection
Lot 623 SESSION 3 (2.30pm Tuesday) The Howard Brown Collection
Estimate $1,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $2,300
HOSIE, Bourke Street, Melbourne checks, for 6d, 9d (illustrated), 1/- (illustrated), 1/3 and 1/6. These are later productions by Stokes & Martin utilising different dies to those described by Andrews and Heyde, (Heyde: Related 45/2, 45/3, 45/4, 45/5, 45/6 all noted as R5 the shilling as not seen). The shilling in silvered bronze, others in copper, mostly extremely fine and very rare. (5)
Ex G.C. Heyde Collection for the last four coins, these being from the Geoff K. Gray Auction Sale number 32 of the Gilbert Heyde Collection Part 3, March 23, 1974 (lot 410). See the note on Heyde "Unofficial Coins of Colonial Australia and New Zealand" p.50 below, Related 45.
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