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Hong Kong, Edward VII, fifty cents, 1904 (KM.15). Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Hong Kong, Edward VII, fifty cents, 1905 (KM.15). Little toned on obverse, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Hong Kong, George V, one cent, 1919 (KM.16). Red and brown, uncirculated.
Estimate $150
Passed in
India, Mogul, Jahangir (1605-1628) silver rupee, heavy issue (13.50g), Agra mint, issued 1606-7AD (AH1015) (KM.155.12). Cleaned, extremely fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $400
India, British, half anna, 1780-1784, large flan, (Prid 190); half anna, 1780-1784, small flan, (Prid 191); one quarter anna, 1780-1784, large flan, (Prid 194), (2); one eighth anna, 1780-1784, large flan, (Prid 197); one eighth anna, 1780-1784, small flan, (Prid 198); sicca pice, 1796, (Prid 204); pice, 1815-21, san trisuli, (Prid 309); pice, 1821-27, san trisuli, (Prid 310), (5); pice, 1827-29, san trisuli, (Prid 311), pice, 1820-24, Farrukhabad, trisuli, (Prid 336), (2); pice, 1833, Farrukhabad, Sagar, (Prid 338). Several coins with mint red, fine - very fine. (17)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
India, E.I.C., Bengal Presidency, silver rupee 1793, Calcutta, (Prid 157); silver rupee Banaras 1738, (Prid 251)' silver rupee 1819, (Prid 172) (illustrated); silver rupee 1819, (Prid 176); silver rupee 1820-31, (Prid 318) (2); silver rupee 1825, Sagar, (Prid 325); silver rupee 1830-33, (Prid 177); half rupee, 1793, (Prid 158) (illustrated); half rupee, 1806-19, (Prid 315); half rupee, 1830-1833, (Prid 180); half rupee, 1806-19, (Prid 318); quarter rupee 1793, Calcutta, (Prid 159) (illiustrated); quarter rupee 1830-33, (Prid 183); quarter rupee 1806-19, Farrukhabad, (Prid 316). Very fine - extremely fine, some rare. (15)
Estimate $500
SOLD $400
India, Bengal Presidency, Farrukhabad type rupee, year 45 (1820) (KM.77). Extremely fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
India, Bombay Presidency, double pice, 1791, (Prid 118); pice, 1791, (Prid 118); quarter anna, 1830, (Prid 205); quarter anna, 1832, (Prid 207) (3); quarter anna, 1833, (Prid 218) (2); quarter anna, 1833, (Prid 220) (3); pie, 1833, (Prid 222) (2); silver quarter rupee, 1800-1815, (Prid 255); rupee, 1825, (Prid 274) (illustrated); rupee, 1823-1824, (Prid 284) (illustrated); rupee, 1832-1835, (Prid 286); half rupee, 1832-1835, (Prid 288). Fine - extremely fine, toned and scarce. (19)
Estimate $400
SOLD $340
Bombay Presidency, machine struck issue, Munbai Mint type, but struck at Calcutta 1810-1813 for the Malabar Coast, in the name of Alamgir II (A.H.1167-1173, A.D. 1754-1759), no Regnal Year, with complete impression of die on round flan, crescent silver rupee, plain edge, mintmark of inverted crescent on reverse, (Pr. 294, KM.224, BMC 79). Extremely fine and rare, with attractive touches of red tone around letters.
Estimate $250
Passed in
India, East India Company, Madras Presidency, silver rupee, Arkot mint, in the name of Alamgir II, year 6 (KM 384, Pr. 140). Struck on a less dumpy flan than usual and probably struck at Madras rather than Calcutta, very fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
India, Malabar Coast, silver fanam, 1730-1796, (Prid 295) (illustrated); fanam, 1730-1796, (Prid 296); fanam, 1730-1796, (Prid 297); fanam, 1799-1805, (Prid 298) (illustrated); fanam, 1799-1805, (Prid 299); half pice, 1803, (Prid 321). Fine - extremely fine, rare. (6)
Estimate $300
SOLD $300
British, Queen Victoria, silver two annas, 1862 C, (Prid 482), rare; 1862 C, (Prid 485); 1862 B, (Prid 486); 1874 B, (Prid 516) (2); 1875 C, (Prid 489); Empress Victoria, silver two annas, 1877 AI C, (Prid 491); 1879 BII C, (Prid 494); 1881 BII C, (Prid 496); 1883 AI B, (Prid 529); 1885 AI B, (Prid 537); 1886 BII C, (Prid 501); 1887 BII C, (Prid 502); 1887 BII B, (Prid 540); 1888 BII C, (Prid 503); 1888 BII B, (Prid 541); 1889 BII C, (Prid 504); 1889 BII B, (Prid 542); 1890 BII C, (Prid 505); 1890 BII B, (Prid 543) (2); 1891 BII C, (Prid 506); 1891 BII B, (Prid 546); 1892 BII C, (Prid 507); 1892 BII B, (Prid 547); 1893 BII C, (Prid 508); 1893 BII B, (Prid 548); 1895 BII C, (Prid 510); 1896 BII C, (Prid 511) (2); 1897 BII B, (Prid 551) (3); 1898 BII C, (Prid 513); 1900 BI B, (Prid 553); Edward VII, silver two annas, 1903 C, (Prid 556); 1904 C, (Prid 557) (2); 1905 C, (Prid 558); 1906 C, (Prid 559); 1907 C, (Prid 560); 1908 C, (Prid 561); 1910 C, (Prid 563); George V, silver two annas, 1912 C, (Prid 565); 1912 B, (Prid 571); 1913 B, (Prid 572) (2); 1914 C, (Prid 567); 1914 B, (Prid 573); 1915 B, (Prid 574); 1916 C, (Prid 569); 1917 C, (Prid 570). Nearly very fine - uncirculated, some rare. (53)
Estimate $200
SOLD $300
India, British EIC, Queen Victoria, rupee, continuous legend, 1840 (KM.457.5) S on truncation. Attractively toned, nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $150
India, a mixed group including Portuguese India (4); Indian native states (4), East India Company (3); Ancient India (1); square temple token in base metal imitating Akbar; Roman Egypt, billon tetradrachms late 3rd century (3); other Indian (5). Mostly fine - very fine. (21)
Estimate $80
SOLD $100
Indonesia, Chinese cash imitations in tin stored in stacks or clumps as imitations of Sung Dynasty issues c1200. Poor. (lot)
Estimate $70
Passed in
Indonesia, Sumatra, Sultantate of Palembang and nearby areas, reading 'Sultan fi balad Palembang, sanat' otherwise anonymous tin pitis, c.1700, all in 2X2 described, some with clear AH dates, a good study collection, mostly round 15mm, (cf.Millies Pl.XIX, 182-187). Mostly fine - very fine, mostly very scarce. (110)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Israel, various commemorative coins, including crown size in silver, minors in base metal, mostly as part of mint sets, medallions in silver in bronze, many cased as issued. Very fine - FDC. (approx 100)
Estimate $250
SOLD $260
Italy, Kingdom of Sicily, Roger II (1105-1154), issued 1130-1138, AE half follaro, Messina, copper coinage, obv. octagon in the centre of a cross, star in centre, rev. Arabic legend in six lines as a star around circle, (MEC 221-225A, Spahr 79, Biaggi 1224); William I (1154-1168), AE follis fraction, Messina mint, obv. REX/W around Kufic script, rev. bust of Virgin and child, (MEC 286-289A, Spahr 99, Biaggi 1226). Fine - very fine in packets described. (2)
Estimate $140
SOLD $80
Italy, Milan, Gian Galeazzo Maria Sforza (Duke of Milan) Ludovico Maria Sforza VI (1481-1494), silver testone, (9.22 g), head of St. Ambrose as the mintmark, obv. IOGZ M SF VICECOMES DVX MIL SX, armoured bust to right of G. Galeazzo Maria, rev. head of St. Ambrose mintmark, quadripartite quartered eagle and snake Visconti arms, surmounted by two crests crowned, one of ornate crested dragon devouring a child to right, on left a winged dragon with old man's head encircling claws in a diamond ring, globule between the crests, around LV PATRVO GVBNANTE, (CNI 32, Crippa 4, Morosini 9, MIR 222, Biaggi 1570). Very fine/nearly very fine, with roughness at top of reverse, very rare.
Estimate $2,200
SOLD $1,750
Italy, Milano (Duchi), Ludovico Maria Sforza, (1494-1499), silver testone, (9.66 g), obv. nimbate and mitered facing head (St. Ambrose) as a mint mark, around, LVDOVICVS M SF ANGLVS DVX MLI, armoured bust to right of Ludovico Sforza, rev. coat-of-arms, around PP ANGLE Q3 CO ACIANVF D 7C, nimbate and mitered facing head (St. Ambrose) as a mint mark, (CNI V, 19 Pl.X 10, Morosini 5, Biaggi 1579). Toned, very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $1,800
SOLD $1,500
Italy, Tuscany, Principality of Lucca and Piombino, five franchi, 1805, Elisa (sister of Napoleon) and Felice her husband (KM.24.1). Toned, good very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $600
SOLD $550
Italy, Sardinia, Carlo Felice, five lire, 1830 (KM.116.2). Good very fine.
Estimate $200
Passed in
Italy, Vatican, Pope Gregory XVI, scudo, 1846R (KM.1335; CNI.25; Berman 3285). Light brown toned, good very fine.
Estimate $300
Passed in
Italy, Vatican, Pope Pius IX, scudo, 1854R (KM.1336.2). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $450
SOLD $420
Italy, ten centesimi - ten lire, 1911-1954, all carefully selected by a collector over 40 year period. Extremely fine - uncirculated. (20)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Italy, Victor Emmanuel, lire, 1913 (KM.45), two lire, 1911 (KM.46); twenty lire, 1928 (KM.69). Extremely fine - good extremely fine, the second rare. (3)
Estimate $500
SOLD $600
Italy, five hundred lire, silver issues, 1958 (4), 1959 (3), 1960 (6), 1964 (3) (KM.98), 1961 (3) (KM.99), 1965 (KM.100). Very fine - extremely fine. (20)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Japan, Mutsuhito, silver ten sen, Meiji year 3 (1870) shallow scales (KM.Y.2), Meiji year 6 (1873) type 1 (KM.Y.23), Meiji year 8 (1875) type 1 (KM.Y.23). Extremely fine - nearly uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $100
Passed in
Japan, Mutsuhito, silver twenty sen, Meiji year 4 (1871) (KM.Y.3) (2), Meiji year 7 (1874) (KM.Y.24), Meiji year 9 (1876) type 1 (KM.Y.24) (2), Meiji year 10 (1877) (KM.Y.24) (2). Extremely fine - nearly uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Japan, Mutsuhito, silver fifty sen, Meiji year 3 (1870) (KM.Y.4), Meiji year 4 (1871) (KM.Y.4) (2). Extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $200
SOLD $140