Holey Dollars & Dumps
Lot 1297
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII Mexico City Mint eight reales 1791FM (Mira-Noble 1791/5, dies A/5: I/3). Toned, reverse one mm edge break from manufacture at 4 o'clock, otherwise very fine or better, countermarks good very fine and very rare in this condition.
Estimate
$100,000
SOLD $98,000
Ex P.J. Downie Auction 30 April 1976 (lot 311) and Spink Australia Sale 19 (lot 2429) 19 July 1986.
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Adjacent lots
Lot 1295
NETHERLANDS, Westfriesland, one gulden, 1794 (KM.97.5). Toned, nearly very fine.
Estimate $100
Lot 1296
PERU, Charles IIII, eight escudos, 1798IJ Lima (KM.101). Old red toning, good very fine.
Estimate $1,500
Lot 1297 This lot
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII Mexico ...
Estimate $100,000
Lot 1298
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck from a Charles IIII, Bolivian ...
Estimate $45,000
Lot 1299
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies D/2). Traces of the reverse ...
Estimate $40,000
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