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China, copper medal for the 'North China 1920 Famine Relief, $10 to save one life' on obverse, 34mm, reverse in Chinese, stating Year 9 of the Republic / Huabei Famine Relief / Save one life / 10 yuan, (example noted in the British Museum). Very fine with support attachment, very rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $360
China, packaged modern products mostly cased as sold to the collector from retail shops and stores, include a cased set boxed with twelve wooden reproductions of ancient coins of the period c.220-23 A.D.; another boxed set of eight modern copies of ant-nose coins; another boxed set as all modern reproductions, imitating fifteen ancient all in metal including gold plated ingot, spade, knife money and round cash with certificate; packaged modern year set of 3 notes and 6 coins various years up to 2007; a large wooden block packaged featuring initations of Qian State coins and dragon reverse; two large encased bronze bars with inscription; cased Chinese seals with ink pad; three small books featuring minatures of Chinese and world modern banknotes (foreign currencies epitome from the Beijing Banknote Printing Plant); two large 122mm (horse), 149mm (currency) charms in darken bronze medal; together with Japan labelled folder of 19th century as a packaged collection of (12) cash and charms (mostly from China with a few from Japan, all in fair to fine condition). Mostly as new. (lot)
Estimate $120
Passed in
China, Kiau Chou, ten cents 1909 (KM.2). Toned, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Cochin China, one sapeque, 1875K, 1879A; one cent, 1879A, 1884A; ten cents 1884A; twenty cents 1884A; fifty cents 1879A (KM.1-6). The ten and fifty cents rare in this condition, very fine - uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $850
Cook Islands, Elizabeth II, Perth Mint, Australian Insect Series, proof silver one ounce one dollar set of five, 2000 (KM.1101-1105). In case of issue with certificate number 0226, a few small spots of foxing on case interior, otherwise FDC.
Estimate $120
SOLD $110
Cook Islands, Elizabeth II, Perth Mint, proof fine silver and colour two ounce two dollars four coin set, 2003 Australian Bushrangers - Ned Kelly, Ben Hall, Captain Thunderbolt and Mad Dan Morgan. In timber case of issue with certificate number 0922; fifty cents, Ned Kelly in Cu/Ni 2004; mug, porcelain with photograph of Ned Kelly. First item in timber case with certificate number 0922, others in packs of issue, uncirculated - FDC. (3)
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
Cook Islands, Elizabeth II, Perth Mint, proof silver and coloured ten ounce ten dollars, Planetary Alignment 2000. In case of issue with certificate, FDC.
Estimate $200
SOLD $180
Cook Islands, Elizabeth II, Perth Mint, proof silver ten ounces ten dollars, 2002 (KM.-) Battle of the Coral Sea. In case of issue, this damaged as usual, with certificate number 323, FDC.
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Cook Islands, Elizabeth II, Perth Mint, proof silver twenty five dollars, Centenary of British Sovereignty 1988; Tuvalu, Elizabeth II, Perth Mint, proof silver one ounce, 75th Anniversary 1930 Penny (copper plated) 2005 (2), Commemoration 1923 Halfpenny (copper plated) 2006. In cases of issue with certificates, FDC. (4)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Crete, Greek Administration, Prince George, five drachmai, 1901 (KM.9). Nearly very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $130
Cyprus, Queen Victoria - George VI, eighteen piastres 1901, 1907 (illustrated), 1921; nine piastres 1907, 1921, 1940, 1947, 1949; four and a half piastres 1901, 1921, 1938; three piastres 1901; two shillings 1947, 1949, (KM. 4-7, 9-10, 13-14, 24-25, 27-28, 31-32). Very good - extremely fine. (14)
Estimate $500
SOLD $900
Cyprus, George V, forty five piastres, 1928 (KM.19). Toned, extremely fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Cyprus, George V, forty five piastres, 1928 (KM.19). Extremely fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Cyprus, George V, forty five piastres, 1928. Toned, good extremely fine.
Estimate $100
Passed in
Czechoslovakia, five korun, 1928 (KM.11); ten korun, 1928 (KM.12)(2), 1931 (KM.15), 1955 (KM.42)(2), 1957 (KM.47, 48{2}); twenty korun, 1937 (KM.18); twenty five korun, 1954 (KM.41); fifty korun, 1947 (KM.24), 1948 (KM.25)(2), 1949 (KM.28)(2), 1955 (KM.44), 1970 (KM.70), 1971 (KM.71, 72), 1972 (KM.77), 1973 (KM.79)(2), 1977 (KM.87)(2); one hundred korun, 1948 (KM.27), 1949 (KM.29, 30[2]), 1951 (KM.33), 1954 (KM.40)(2), 1976 (KM.84, 85), 1977 (KM.88). In a small brown album, very fine - uncirculated. (35)
Estimate $250
SOLD $320
Denmark, Christian IX, one ore, 1883Cs, five ore, 1882CS, ten ore, 1884CS with die break between 4 and heart, 1903VBP, twenty five ore, 1904VBP, one krone, 1876CS, 1892CS (KM.792.1, 794.1, 795.1, 795.2, 796.2, 797.1 [2]). The second with some oxidation marks, otherwise, nearly fine - good very fine. (7)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Denmark, Christian IX, two Kroner, 1888 (KM.799), 1892 (KM.800), Christian X, two Kroner, 1916 (KM.820), 1930 (KM.829), 1945 (KM.846). Toned, extremely fine - uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $300
SOLD $180
East Africa, George V, silver florin, 1920, (KM.17). Very fine, scarce.
Estimate $80
Passed in
Egypt, ten and twenty qirsh (1910) (KM.309, 310). Extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $150
Egypt, British Protectorate, twenty piastres 1917 (KM.321); under Turkey, Abdul Hamid II, AH 1293 year 30 (1904), Misr mint, (KM.296) (holed); Mexico, Republic, silver eight reales, 1881 JS, Zacetacas mint (KM.377.13); another 1888 MH, Mexico City mint, (KM.377.10), last two both with chopmarks. Fine - good very fine, one holed. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Fiji, George V, florin, 1934 (KM.5). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Fiji, George V - Elizabeth II, 1934-1968, halfpenny to florin, complete except 1945 florin substituted with a 1935 and George V, penny, 1936, with Edward VIII, all in Supreme album, with extras to fill album, above average with many scarce in high grade. Toned, very fine - uncirculated. (97)
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $1,350
Fiji, collection of obsolete types, noted fifty cents, 1976-2000, twenty cents, 1969-2000, ten cents, 1969-2000, five cents, 1969-1998 includes fish commemorative type 1995 (8), two cents, 1975-2001, one cent, 1969-2001. Fine - uncirculated. (284)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Fiji, obsolete QEII head types, five, ten, twenty and fifty cents, 2009 (KM.119-122). Very fine - uncirculated. (200)
Estimate $50
Passed in
France, Maine, silver denier, Herbert I, (1015-1035), obv. around +COMES CENOMANNIS, cross dots in upper corner A and W in lower corners, rev. around SIGNVM DEI VIVI, monogram within, (PdA.1594, Roberts 4121); Armenia, Levon I, (1198-1219), silver trams, (2.94 g), obv. Levon seated facing on lion throne, holding cross and lis, feet on footstool, rev. Patriarchal cross between two lions rampant, (cf.CCA 290, Nercessian 289); France, Henry III (1574-1589), AE double tournois, 1584P (Dijon), (Duplessy 1153B). Fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
France, Vienne, Archbishopric of Vienne (c1250), silver denier, (P dA 4826, Pl.CVI, 15, Boudeau 1045, Roberts 5045); Lithuania, Poland, Sigismund III, (1587-1632), silver groschens, c1607, another c1620s, two groschen, c1625; Principality of Achaea, Maud or Mahaut of Hainault (1316-1321), billon denier tournoises, obverse, Ph'S. D. SAB.P.AChE or variant, cross pattee, reverse, DE CLARENCIA or variant ChYtel tournois (MPS 18 [p.362 and onwards], Metcalf 973 f.f). Very good - very fine, most with attribution tickets and provenance. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
France, an extensive collection of copper coins housed in a Port Phillip Coin Album, almost all are described in 2x2 coinholders, issues from France 1613 - 1793, includes French regional (10) also including Siege coinage of Lille 1708 (KM.5-6); copper double tournois (7), liards (3), half sols (3), sols (28) to 1793, two sols (6) including billon 1740W; minor silver issues from 1661 - 1792 (18); silver jetons of 18th century (2), Monneron Freres two sols 1792, five sols 1792 (KM.Tn23a, Tn25, Tn31); others items including copies of silver ecus plated. Good - very fine, several damaged. (92)
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
France, Louis XIV (1643-1715) - Louis XVI (1774-1790), silver half ecus, 1694X (Amiens), 1726& (Aix), 1746L (Bayonne), (KM.295.22, 484.26, 516.11); silver quarter ecu 1711 (Paris) (KM.380.1); thirty sols 1792 I (Limoges), (KM.606.7). Last coin nearly very fine, others very good - fine, several scarce. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
France, Louis XIV (1643-1715), silver half ecu, 1704A (Paris) (KM.355.1). Overstruck on previous issue, otherwise fine and rare.
Estimate $100
Passed in
France, Orleans, nobility and towns jeton, 1754, in silver (29mm), obverse, Arms of Charles Tassin-Jousse (Mayor of Orleans), reverse, Minerva holding shield bearing arms of Orleans, in exergue Aurelia. Heavy toning in parts, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $80
SOLD $130