Holey Dollar and Dumps
Lot 374 SESSION 2 (7.30pm Tuesday) Holey Dollar and Dumps
Estimate $75,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $60,000
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.
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