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Germany, WWII commemorative, in 0.999 silver (51mm, 35g) produced in the 1970s, by P.P.Steiner, obverse, frontal and side view on a ME-109 fighter plane, MESSERSCHMITT ME 109 below, reverse, German eagle left, holding German cross in wreath, 2. WELTKRIEG 1939-1945 below. Toned uncirculated.
Estimate $150
SOLD $230
Germany, Bavaria, Fire Services Merit Cross in gilt. Uncirculated.
Estimate $50
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Germany, Prussia, Prussian State Fire Service Association 25 Years Long Service Medal in silver with enamelled obverse, mounted in Prussian parade mount style. Some age toning on ribbon, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $80
India, Princely State, Jaipur, Man Singh II and Edward VIII, nazarana paisa, Regnal year 15 (1936) (KM.167). Orange and brown with a few traces of mint red, some dark toned areas, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $120
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Israel, Moshe Dayan, set of three commemorative medals, in gold .900 fine (32mm, 17.6g; 25mm, 9.5g; 20mm, 3.5g), reverse, city view of Jerusalem with dates 1948 (Independence), 1956 (Suez crisis), 1967 (six day war). Nearly FDC. (3)
Estimate $1,100
SOLD $1,500
Israel, Theodor Herzl, privately issued gold medal, 1960 (impressed .900, 36mm, 16g) commemorating 10th Anniversary of the birth of the Father of Zionism, reverse, the emblems of the twelve tribes. Nearly FDC.
Estimate $850
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Israel, 9th Maccabiah Games 1973 medal in bronze (59mm) (2), obverse, ancient Jewish fortress of Masada, reverse, Games logo; 10th Maccabiah Games 1977 medal in gilt (50mm), obverse, Star of David, reverse, plain, with attached gilt neck chain; 10th Maccabiah Games 1977 medal in gilt (50mm), obverse, Games logo, reverse, menorah and the words, 'WE/ARE/HERE/ISRAEL1977', with attached gilt neck chain; 10th Maccabiah Games Jubilee 1977 medal in bronze (58mm) (2), obverse, ancient city of Jerusalem, reverse, Games logo; 11th Maccabiah Games 1981 medal in silvered bronze (59mm), obverse, Games symbol, reverse, the word Peace above a stylised image of a dove; Bank of Hapoalim Medal, Tel Aviv, undated, in bronze (45mm), edge number 4440, in small folder with certificate. Apart from the two medals with chains, all the other Games medals are in individual plastic packs with attached neck ribbons, a few medals with light verdigris, otherwise good very fine - extremely fine, the last uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Italy, Giovanni II Bentivoglio renaissance medal, c1462 (a later casting c1800s), in bronze (74mm), obverse, Bartolomeo of Sperandio Savelli, called Sperandio from Mantova, youth bust left with long hair and high hat, reverse, Giovanni Bentivoglio with armour and baton of command, on horse galloping left (Hill 380bis; Armand I, 65, 8). Good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $300
Italy, Papal States, Leo XIII, year 10, 1887, in silver (43mm) by F.Bianchi. Toned, uncirculated.
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
South Africa, Visit of the Prince of Wales to Tembuland in South Africa, 1925, in white metal (32mm) (G.CM104a), with suspension loop, ribbon and brooch pin, obverse, uniformed bust left, reverse, arms of Umtata and in a wide border, 'MUNICIPALITY OF UMTATA' at the top and at the bottom, 'TEMBULAND'. Toned, otherwise very fine and very rare.
Estimate $80
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South Africa, a boxed gilt sterling silver proof collection, of the stamps of South Africa, "A Collection of the Pictorial Issues of South Africa Decimal Stamps" the edition struck to commemorate the quality of wild life and floral designs on South African stamps, sixteen medals of various sizes (total weight about 20 troy ounces), struck by the Africana Commemorative Mint Limited. Housed in a leather type case, FDC. (16)
Estimate $250
SOLD $260
Spain, Marriage of Ferdinand VII and Elizabeth, 1816, in bronze, (35mm), obverse, conjoined busts facing right, reverse, figure standing between columns; Accession of Ferdinand VII, 1808, in gilt bronze (20mm), obverse, bust facing left, reverse, legend; United Provinces, Willem IV appointed stadhouder, 1747, in brass (40mm), obverse, bust facing left, reverse, lion and legend. Good very fine. (3)
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Sweden, Gustav Adolphus, 1832, in silver (42mm) by C.M.M. Toned, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
United Kingdom, 1948, Fireman's cap badge, Shropshire, in metal, lug on reverse; United Kingdom, 1948, army fireman's cap badge, Shropshire, in metal, lug on reverse; United Kingdom, fire service, army fire service, lapel badge, in metal, nickel plated, lugs on reverse, United Kingdom, fire service, works department, lapel badge, in metal, nickel plated, clip on reverse; United Kingdom, fire service, fireman's cap badge, Suffolk and Ipswich, in metal, nickel plated, lugs on reverse; United Kingdom, fire service, fireman's cap badge, Lincolnshire fire brigade, in metal, nickel plated, enamelled centre. Very fine - extremely fine. (6)
Estimate $50
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Yugoslavia, 1979, fire service medal, long service, twenty years, in metal with gold gilt; Yugoslavia, 1981, fire service medal, ninety years jubilee medal, in metal with enamel, ribbon; Yugoslavia, 1939, fireman's congressional medal, in metal; Yugoslavia, communist order of the fireman's star, first class. Very fine. (4)
Estimate $100
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World medals, includes Australia, The Australian Commonwealth, one Nation One People One Destiny, undated (1901), in silver (22mm) (C.T/2), by A.H.Wittenbach, pierced for suspension; China, Commemorative of one of the Ten Marshalls of the People's Liberation Army, undated, in silvered (38mm), obverse, bust of Marshall Nie Rong Zhen, reverse, Chairman Mao Zedong commemorating the marshalls with the ten Marshalls assembled on stage behind him; Germany, Hindenburg's Election as Germany's President, 1925, in silver (30mm), with suspension loop, obverse, Hindenburg bust, reverse, Germania standing between two feathers. Very fine - uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
World badges, medals and other items, Australia, Peace medalets for WWI and WWII, and Federation Commemorative medal 1951, Air Force Association badge in gilt and enamel (KC)reverse numbered 58671, RAAF cufflinks in sterling silver and enamel (KC), Maltese Cross in silver (26mm), pin-back, plain except for oval centrepiece, by A.J.Parkes, also PI High School badge by Angus & Coote Sydney; Great Britain, Victoria League lapel badge in gilt and enamel (KC), British flag on brooch bar in gilt and enamel, cufflinks in gilt and blue and white enamelled angled stripes; Netherlands, Kynologen (Dog Breeder) - Club "De Hofstad" badge with suspension loop; USA, Albert Einstein award medal in bronze (38mm), with suspension loop, unnamed. Very good - nearly uncirculated. (10 + 2 pairs)
Estimate $70
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World medals, Australia, Edward VIII, Visit to Australia, 1920, in silvered (20x22mm) (G.CM46.2), Prince of Wales plumes pin back; another similar in silvered (20x22mm) (not in Giordano), stick pin with ribbon; another similar but a circular badge in silvered (24mm) (not in Giordano), stick pin features Prince of Wales plumes with date at sides left and right, 'MAY/1920'; Great Britain, Proposed Coronation, 1937, in silvered and enamel (23mm) (G.CM267b) (2), with suspension loop and one with ribbon and pin brooch suspender, obverse, crown and robed bust of Edward VIII right, reverse, 5-line inscription; another identical but voided background, in silvered and enamel (23mm) (G.CM268), pin-back; another in silvered and enamel (19x24.5mm) (identical to main design of G.CM311 and 311.1), with lapel lug on reverse; another in silvered and enamel (26x35mm) (G.CM312), pin back, obverse, bareheaded head right bordered by coronation regalia, with crown above, and at left and right flags and Royal supporters, scroll below; another in silvered and enamel (33x20mm) (not in Giordano), obverse, on an oval background is a crowned and robed bust of Edward VIII right, at left and right, 'ER/VIII', below, 'CROWNED MAY/1937', in the oval border at left and right, 'H.M.KING/EDWARD VIII', this whole design resting on a horizontal wish-bone with pin back. Fine - nearly uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
World fire related medals and badges, Austria, Fire Service breast badges (2, one silvered and one bronze), pin back; Germany, Westphalia, Rhine Westphalia Firefighters' Association Festival at Hamm, 1866, in white metal (33mm), with suspension loop and ribbon; USA, Chicago Laid Waste By Fire 1871, proof-like commemorative medal, 1971, in copper (44mm). Very fine - uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $50
SOLD $150
World fire brigade medals, Austro-Hungarian 25 Years Faithful Duty in Fire and Rescue Service Medal; Germany, Bavaria Fire Brigade 25 Years Long Service Medal; Hungary, 10 Years Long Service Medal. Fine - extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $50
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World medals, France, Agricultural award medal, undated, in bronze (50mm), obverse, goddess facing and holding a torch in her left hand and a laurel wreath in her right extended over a beehive, at her left side a small platform with laurel wreaths on top, reverse, various agricultural products and tools, unnamed; Jubilee Scientist Camille Flammarion a dedication plaque from his Admirers and his Friends, 1911, in bronze (85x80.5mm), uniface, obverse, winged figures at top with one holding a wreath over the facing bust of Flammarion, at the right a building and in left corner a globe; Germany, Salomon Heine Hospital, 19th century, in bronze (22mm), obverse, head of Salomon Heine right, at base a German inscription, translates as, 'Charity is the Crown of all Virtues', reverse, the hospital's fa‡ade and above, in German, translates as, 'Hospital of Israel Community' and with 4-line German inscription below; Italy, World Champion Exhibition in Rome, 1925, in bronze (61mm), obverse, head of goddess Fortuna right, reverse, Mercury sitting on a globe with scroll below, unnamed; also two large brass cast copies of antique European medals. The last two poor - good, the rest fine - good very fine. (6)
Estimate $70
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World medals, includes Great Britain, cased souvenir medallions for Warwick Castle (2), Stonehenge (2) and Westminster Abbey (all 36mm), Charles Dickens medal, undated and uniface, in brass (38mm), other items for Royal occasions (8 different), also a pair of cufflinks made from QEII nickel plated brass threepences, cased, and a pencil sharpener made from two 1927 shillings; USA, LA Olympics Souvenir Medal, 1984, silvered (32mm), cased, various tourist items from New Orleans, noted Mardi Gras Dollar Club, Sorcerers' Garden 1971, Clermont Social Club, The Five Plus Deducts of Metairie, The Jolly Kiwis, also Cape Cod Massachusetts tourist medal, in cupro nickel (37mm), a large metal seal stamp for Piedra Rock Company, San Francisco, in brass (50mm), missing handle; New Zealand, AC Thermal Pools tag in brass, HMS Ophir Visit of Duke and Duchess of Cornwall, 1901, in bronze 27mm), pierced hole near edge; a medallic pendant in copper (34mm), with suspension, features Syrena (the sword and shield bearing mermaid being the symbol of Warsaw) on both sides on a blackened background, around the outside is a copper fitted edge with milling. A few very good but mostly very fine - uncirculated. (27)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
World medals, Russia (USSR), 60 Years of Soviet Fire Protection Medal 1918-1978, in gilt and enamel; 70 Years of Soviet Fire Protection Medal 1918-1988, in gilt and enamel; Police Excellence Award badge, in gilt and enamel; Singapore, Civil Defence Force Good Service Medal; Civil Defence Force Long Service & Good Conduct Medal, all medals unnamed. Very fine - uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
Gaul, Northwest, Namnetes, (2nd - 1st century B.C.), electrum quarter stater, (1.37 g), obv. stylised head of Apollo right, string of pearls behind, rev. traces of crude horse to right, (S.-, Delestree and Tache II, 2197, La Tour 6475). Deeply toned, fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
Celtic, Northern Gaul, Morini, (c.56-55 B.C.), gold quarter stater, (1.31 g), uniface tree type, obv. plain, rev. tree-like object with bar and small crescent either side, bent line, crescent and heart shape below, (S.10, ABC 43, Van A 69-3, LT 8722). Toned gold, slightly uneven flan, very fine and an unusual type.
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Sicily, Syracuse, Kingdom of, Agathocles, (317-289 B.C.), gold two thirds stater or octobol, (5.66 g), Attic standard, equivalent to 80 silver litrai or two silver decadrachms, obv. head of Athena to right, wearing necklace, pendant earring and crested Corinthian helmet decorated with griffin running right on the bowl, her hair is long and knotted on the neck with the ends hanging loose with a few strands escaping above the ear, rev. winged thunderbolt, above **AGAQOKLEOS, below **BASILEOS* and monogram TP, (S.970, BMC 416, Robinson "Calouste Gulbenkian Collection", Part I, No.341). Trace of original mint bloom, very fine or better and rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $3,400
Sicily, Syracuse, Hieron II (275-215 B.C.), gold sixty litrai - dekadrachm (4.29 g), struck circa 269-263 or 217-215 B.C., obv. head of Persephone left with long flowing hair, head wreathed in grain ears, palm behind, rev. charioteer driving biga right, holding reins in left hand and kentron in right hand, IEPêNOä below, (S.983, Carroccio 54 (D25/R32), CCO period Ib or III, BAR issue 55, cf.SNG ANS 863 (obv. control mark). Extremely fine with the obverse die a little rusty.
Estimate $7,000
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Thrace, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), gold stater, (8.30 g), Kallatis mint, posthumous issue c.88-86 B.C., obv. diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing horn of Ammon, rev. Athena enthroned to left, holding Nike and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against right side to right, to right **BASILEWS*, to left **LUSIMAC[OU], monogram HPO below arm, **KLA* on throne, trident and monogram below in exergue, (cf.S.6813, M.266, SNG Cop.1089), Good very fine from worn dies. well centred on the obverse and virtually as struck and very rare.
Estimate $2,500
SOLD $1,800
Thrace, Kingdom of, Lysimachos, (323-281 B.C.), gold stater, (8.33 g), Tomis mint, posthumous issue c.88-86 B.C., obv. diademed head of Alexander the Great to right, wearing horn of Ammon, rev. Athena enthroned to left, holding Nike and resting left arm on shield, transverse spear resting against right side, to right **BASILEWS, to left **[L]USIMACOU, **QEM below arm, TO on throne, trident below in exergue, (cf.S.6813, M.279, SNG Cop.1091). Even wear and toning, some surface pitting, otherwise very fine or better.
Estimate $1,250
SOLD $1,100
Macedon, Kingdom of Philip II, (359-336 B.C.), gold stater, (8.58 g), Pella II mint, issued c.340-328 B.C., obv. head of Apollo to right with laureate wreath, rev. galloping biga to right driven by charioteer holding kentron in right hand, reins in left hand, horizontal thunderbolt below horses, in exergue **FILIPPOU*, (cf.S.6663, Le Rider Group II cf.Pl.56, SNG ANS 130-137), Some mint bloom, of fine style, nearly extremely fine and very scarce.
Estimate $4,000
SOLD $3,200