Lot 3919

Description

WWI and WWII souvenir coins, Turkey silver five piastres AH1293 Yr 22 (1898), obverse shaved and engraved with Middle Eastern symbols above '11514/Bagdad (sic)/1918' and around the border at the top, 'Pte Watkins' and at the bottom, 'C. Sqdn. 13. HRS', at the sides are lugs to enable wearing as a bracelet centre piece; British India silver rupees (2, both Queen Victoria), one inscribed across the obverse, 'AL (at right)/HC (at left)/20.12.43 (bottom centre)', the other with reverse nearly smooth and scratched on, 'B.7248/K Bridges'; Great Britain, George V threepence with reverse shaved and inscribed, 'Good Luck/(image of RAF eagle)/RAF/1918', also Queen Victoria (old head) halfpenny with reverse shaved and inscribed, 'Good/Luck/1915' with floral decoration above; France silver one franc dated 1916 with obverse shaved and inscribed, 'MM/1918.' Good - very fine. (6)

11514 Pte A.H. Watkins confirmed as member of 13th Hussars. The British Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force captured Baghdad from Turkish forces in 1917.