Lot 374
Sale 89 · Important Australian & World Coins, Medals & Banknotes, The W.G. & L.M. Wright Collection
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Description
New South Wales, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII Lima (Peru) mint eight reales 1807 J.P (Mira-Noble 1807/8; dies B/6:II/2). Slightly porous, nearly very fine/good very fine and rare.
Found in burnt out house in Newcastle, acquired by E(Ted) Hufnus and then in late 1970's J. Smith Collection (sold out of the collection privately in August 1994 through Barrie Winsor). The illustration in Mira-Noble is before this specimen was cleaned of encrustation, hence obverse porosity now.
- Estimate
- $75,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $60,000