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Vintage tool kit, German 'Sabina' full set of eleven steel tools, housed in a leather clip down case (110x110mm). Very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
Calculigraphe, French circular slide rule, c1880, similar in form to a pocket watch (53mm), nickel case with open faces, white metal dials both sides, with sweep hands, fixed cursor on back dial at 12 o'clock, winding top with separate push button, ring top suspension. Not in working order.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Antique roulette wheel, c1900, in pocket watch form (50mm), brass casing, once silver plated but now worn, top winding mechanism spins wheel and ball, ring top suspension. Partially working.
Estimate $150
SOLD $110
Compensated barometer, Victorian, c1880s, silvered brass case (48x18mm), pocket watch style, by Kilpatrick & Co., Melbourne, white metal dial black lettering and numerals, blue metal hand. May or may not be working, untested.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Mantle clock, c1910, Swiss made for Ingram Bros, Melbourne, in the form of an oversized pocket watch, open face, top wind, nickel case (140mm), damaged white enamel dial, subsidiary seconds register, missing hand, standard unsigned movement, enclosed in a leatherette mantle stand. In working condition but not tested for accuracy.
Estimate $150
Passed in
Arcadius, (A.D. 383-408), gold solidus, Constantinople mint, issued 383, (4.50 g), obv. rosette diademed draped and cuirassed bust of Arcadius to right, around D N ARCADI VS P F AVG, rev. Constantinopolis helmeted seated facing foot on prow, head to right on throne, the arms of which are decorated with lion heads, holding sceptre and globe, around CONCOR DI A AVGGGA around, in exergue CONOB, (S.20697, RIC 45e, Depeyrot 34/2). Extremely fine and rare. $$ Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 109 (lot 3519). Previously D.J.Foster Collection and previously from Noble Numismatics Sale 45 (lot 2042) from the Richard A. Williams Collection. RIC does not list officina A for this type.
Estimate $1,300
SOLD $1,300
Italy, Lucania, Thurium (Thourioi), (c.350 B.C.), silver nomos, stater or didrachm, (7.68 g), obv. head of Athena to right wearing crested Athenian helmet, ornamented with figure of Skylla, rev. bull butting to right, **QOURIWN*, I below, [tunny fish below in exergue], with dotted and plain exergual line, (cf.S.442, cf.SNG ANS 1059 [same reverse die]). Traces on understrike, otherwise very fine and rare. $$ Ex I.S. Wright, Sydney, August 8, 2006, acquired from Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 77 (lot 3095).
Estimate $300
SOLD $200
Syria, Kingdom of, Antiochos VII, (138-129 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.84 g), Antioch mint, obv. diademed head of Antiochos VII to right, fillet border, rev. Athena standing to left, holding Nike bearing a Nike to left in right hand, left hand on shield with Medusa head and holding spear, **BASILEWS ANTIOCOU*, and to left **EUER GETOU*, to left monogram of DI over K, (S.7092, HGC 1067d, SC 2061.1t, SNG Israel I (Spaer) 1851, SMA Newell 279-280). Good very fine, scarce, lot includes collector tickets. $ Ex Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 96 (lot 5074).
Estimate $300
SOLD $300
Syria, Roman Province of Syria, after Seleucid kingdom of Philip Philadelphos, dated by Caesarean era, issued in year 25 = 25-4 B.C., silver tetradrachm, (14.84 g), Antioch mint, obv. head of Philip to right, with diademed, fillet border, rev. Zeus seated to left, on throne holding Nike, ANT (Antioch) monogram to left, KE in exergue, legends left and right **[BASILEWS FI[LIPPO[U E]PIFANOUS [FI]LADELF[OU]*, (S.7215, RPC 4141). Nearly very fine and very rare. $$ Ex I.S. Wright, Sydney, Status Auction Sale 235, October 27, 2006 (lot 6125).
Estimate $250
SOLD $170
Palestine, Judaea, Bar Kochba Revolt. (132-135 CE), silver zuz or denarius (3.16 g), undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). obv. 'Shim'on' in Hebrew within wreath, rev. 'for the freedom of Jerusalem' in Hebrew, flagon with handle, luvav to right. (S.5663, Mildenberg 121 [O18/R76], Meshorer 283 var. [pellet in center of obv.], AJC II 66, H.726, Bromberg 498 [same dies]). Nearly extremely fine, overstruck on a Bostra drachm of Trajan (cf. SNG ANS 1155).
Estimate $750
SOLD $890
Severina, wife of Aurelian, (A.D. 270-275), billon antoninianus, (issued 275), Rome mint, (3.21 g), obv. diademed bust to right of Severina on crescent, around, SEVERINA AVG, rev. CONCORDIA MILITVM around Concordia Militum standing left holding two standards, R in left field, S in right field, in exergue XXI, (cf.S.11706, RIC 20). Full silvering, virtually as struck.
Estimate $180
SOLD $120
Maximianus, (A.D. 286-305), AE folles, London mint, issued 300, (9.58 g), obv. laureate and cuirassed bust of Maximianus to right, around IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG, rev. GENIO POPVLI ROM, Genius wearing modius standing to left, holding patera and cornucopiae, (cf.S.13237, RIC 17). Deeply toned, virtually as struck.
Estimate $160
SOLD $260
Thrace, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), electroplated copy of the silver tetradrachm, (17.08 g), Pergamon mint, style of that issued c.287 B.C., obv. head of Alexander to right, with diadem and horn of Ammon, within dotted border, K under bust, rev. Athena enthroned to left, supporting Nike, to inner left a cult statue, to far left N, crescent in exergue, to right **BASILEWS to left **LUSIMACOU*, (cf.S.6814, Thompson 225, Arnold-Biucchi 63 [dies of obv.12, rev.61, obverse die illustrated on Pl.4 [error on plates]). Copy of the British Museum example, possibly by Ready.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Locri Opuntii and Epiknemidia, (369-338 B.C.), copy of a silver stater, (11.15 g), obv. head of Persephone to right, wreath with corn, wearing ear-ring, rev. Ajax son of Oileus, naked but for helmet, advancing to right, holding sword and large shield, broken spear on ground, around **OPON TIWN*, (cf.S.2326, cf.BMC 27, cf.BCD 93 [NAC Sale 55], cf.Gulbenkian 498). Smoothed on edge of reverse, a good modern copy, original type rare.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Mark Antony restoration issue by Marcus Aurelius & Lucius Verus, (A.D. 161-169), silver denarius, Rome mint, issued A.D. 161-169, (3.20 g), obv. praetorian galley to left with rowers, around ANTONIVS AVGVR below III VIR R P C, rev. legionary eagle between two standards, around ANTONINVS ET VERVS AVG REST, across field LEG VI, (RIC 443 (Marcus Aurelius), Babelon ii No.56 (p.587), BMCRE 500). Deep old toning and mild hoard patination, otherwise as struck and very rare.
Estimate $700
SOLD $400
Severus Alexander, (A.D.222-235), silver denarius, issued 222-8, Rome mint, (3.09 g), obv. laureate bust to right, draped, around IMP C M AVR SEV ALEXAND AVG, rev. ANNO NA AVG, Annona standing left modius at feet, (S.2210, RIC 235, RSC 76). Brilliant, as struck uncirculated and rare in this condition.
Estimate $180
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Codrington, H.W., Ceylon Coins and Currency, Colombo, 1994 (1924), Memoirs of the Colombo Museum, 290 pps, 7 plates; Barker, Dr R. Allan, The Historical Cash Coins of Vietnam, Part I: Official and Semi-Offical Coins, 386 pp, fully illustrated, Singapore, 2004; Tony Lye Fong Nge, The Collection of Malacca Coinages, 606 pp, illustrated, Malaysia, 2005, (signed by the author). As new. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Crawford, Michael H., Coinage and Money under the Roman Republic, Italy and the Mediterranean Economy, University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1985, 355 pp., 124 illustrations, maps, tables etc. New with dust jacket.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Howgego, C.J., Greek Imperial Countermarks, Studies in the Provincial Coinage of the Roman Empire, Spink, London, 1985, Reprinted, 2005, 317 pp, 33 plates. As new.
Estimate $100
SOLD $40
Hyman, Coleman P., An Account of the Coins, Coinages and Currency of Australasia, 159pp (1973 reprint); Chalmers, A History of Currency in the British Colonies, 496pp (1972 reprint); Gollan, The Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Origins and Early History, 179pp (1968). Near new. (3)
Estimate $70
Passed in
Newell, Edward, T., Royal Greek Portrait Coins, Whitman, Racine, Wis., reprint of the 1937 original edition, 125 pps, illustrated throughout, map etc; Carradice, I., Greek Coins, 112 pp, illustrated, softcover, Austin, 1999; Melville Jones, John, A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins, London, Seaby, 1986 reprint, (signed by the author); Head, Barclay V., History of the Coinage of Ephesus, reprint of the 1880 edition, vi. and 89 pp., 11 plates, hardcover, Chicago, 1979; Jenkins, G.K., Ancient Greek Coins, Seaby, London, 1990, 182 pp, illustrated; Davis, Norman, Greek Coins and Cities, London, Spink, 1967, 221 pp, profusely illustrated throughout, together with enlargements of each coin; Ward, John, Greek Coins and Their Parent Cities, accompanied by a catalogue of the author's collection by G.F. Hill, reprint of the London 1902 edition, La Vergne, 2009, 464 pp; Rutter, N.K., Greek Coinages of Southern Italy and Sicily, Spink, 1997, 190 + iv pp., illustrated throughout.
Estimate $120
SOLD $60
Roman Imperial Coinage (RIC); Volume I, Revised Edition, from 31 BC to AD 69, Revised Edition, by C.H.V.Sutherland, Green cloth hardbound with dust jacket, Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1984, Reprinted 1999; Volume II - Part 1, Vespasian to Domitian, by I. Carradice and T.V. Buttrey, 2007, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume III, Antoninus Pius to Commodus, by H. Mattingly & E. A. Sydenham, Reprint 1997, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume IV, Part I, II, and III in one Volume, Part I: Pertinax to Geta, by H. Mattingly & E. A. Sydenham; Part II: Macrinus to Pupienus, by H. Mattingly, E.A. Sydenham & C.H.V. Sutherland, Part III: Gordian III to Uranius Antoninus, Reprint 2004, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd, London; Volume V, Part I, Valerian to Florian, by H. Mattingly, E. A. Sydenham & P.H. Webb, Reprint 2001, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume V, Part II, Probus to Amandus, by H. Mattingly, E.A Sydenham & P.H. Webb, Reprint 2001, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume VI, Diocletian to Maximinus, by C.H.V. Sutherland, & R.A.G. Carson, Reprint 2003, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume VII, Constantine and Licinius, edited by C.H.V.Sutherland, & R.A.G. Carson, by P.M. Bruun, Reprint 2003, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume VIII, The Family of Constantine I, edited by C.H.V. Sutherland, & R.A.G. Carson, by J.P.C. Kent, Green cloth hardbound with dust jacket, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 2003; Volume IX, Valentinian I to Theodosius I, edited by H. Mattingly, C.H.V. Sutherland & R.A.G. Carson, by J.W.E. Pearce, Reprint 2003, Green cloth hardbound, Spink & Son Ltd., London; Volume X, The Divided Empire and the Fall of the Western Parts, edited by R.A.G. Carson, J.P.C. Kent & A.M. Burnett, by J.P.C. Kent, Green cloth hardbound with dust jacket, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1994. As new. (10 volumes in 11 books).
Estimate $700
SOLD $550
Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Civil), (GVIR), with ladies brooch ribbon. Miss Jessie M.Owens. Impressed. Uncirculated.
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Southern Rhodesia War Service Medal 1939-45. Unnamed as issued. Hairlines, otherwise uncirculated and very scarce.
Estimate $400
SOLD $280
1914-15 Star. Captain R.G.Winn 1/A.G.H. A.I.F. Impressed.
Estimate $400
SOLD $620
Memorial Plaque WWI, named to Walter Henry Coulter. Very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $240
Family Group: Group of Five to KIA: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. NX7572 J.Brabin. All medals impressed.; also Pacific Star. Unnamed (issued to 67783 R.G.Brabin); Nearest Female Relative's badge with five stars, numbered on reverse A.15850; Mother's and Wife's badge with one star, numbered on reverse A.1706. The medals in original boxes with leaflets of issue, uncirculated.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,200
Belgium, Order of the Crown (Knight). Very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
France, Family Group: Father: (Roger Bonneau - documents as listed below). Son: (Claude Bonneau) Medaille Militaire; Croix de Guerre for Foreign Operational Theatres with Bronze Star emblem; Cross for Military Valour with Palm emblem; Colonial Medal with clasp Extreme - Orient. Three of the medals in boxes of issue, uncirculated.
Estimate $400
SOLD $750
Germany, Third Reich, War Merit Cross with Swords 2nd Class; Eastern Front Medal; together with award certificates named to Gefreiten (Lance Corporal) Michael Welter 15/Kw.Trsp.Rgt 605, the first dated 17.11.1942, the second dated 29 August 1942; also Army Driver's Proficiency badge; riband bar for above two medals; miniature riband set with lapel button fitting. Very fine - extremely fine. (5+2 certificates)
Estimate $250
SOLD $260