Holey Dollars & Dumps
Lot 1154 Session 5 (7.30pm Tuesday 22 November) Holey Dollars & Dumps
Estimate $160,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $110,000
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII, Lima (Peru) Mint eight reales 1808JP (Mira - Noble 1808/3; dies I/11 : A/10). Countermarks nearly extremely fine, very clear and almost upright, host coin good very fine and very rare, one of the most desirable of all holey dollars.
Ex A.Robson Collection (in 1890s), M.R.Roberts Sale 9th March 1981 (lot 23), Spink Australia privately in March 1981 to Melbourne collector C.Paton, then Noble Numismatics Sale 79 (lot 1244) and now S.Baxter Collection.
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Adjacent lots
Lot 1152
PERU, Ferdinand VII, eight reales, 1811JP Lima Mint (KM.117.1). Fine/very fine.
Estimate $100
Lot 1153
SPAIN, Charles III, four escudos, 1788M (KM.418.1a). Extremely fine.
Estimate $850
Lot 1154 This lot
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII, Lima ...
Estimate $160,000
Lot 1155
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies A/1), traces of the reverse ...
Estimate $40,000
Lot 1156
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies D/2) traces of the reverse ...
Estimate $40,000