Lot 1125

Sale 85 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes

Description

New South Wales, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles III Mexico City Mint eight reales, 1788 (dies I/2: B/56; Mira Noble 1788/2; Spalding 20). Very slightly dished flan, good very fine/very fine, attractively toned and very rare, one of the finest known of Charles III holey dollars.

Ex H. G. Williams (Dunedin, New Zealand), W. D. Ferguson Collection (in 1949), and Ray Jewell Collection (via B. A. Seaby Ltd in Melbourne in 1960)

Estimate
$140,000
Result Status
Sold
Prices Realised
$186,000

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