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Italian Somaliland, Victor Emmanuel III, silver half rupia, 1912R (KM.5). Good very fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $120
Italy, Aquileia, Giovanni V di Moravia, Patriarch, (1387-1394), silver denaro (19mm, 0.81 g), obv. coat of arms, rev. St. Hermagoras seated facing on lion-headed chair, wearing episcopal raiment, raising hand in benediction and holding star-tipped scepter, (CNI VI -; Bernardi 62a; cf. Biaggi 187). Very fine, attractive, well-centred strike.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
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 $1,000
Passed in
Italy, Milan, Ludovico Maria Sforza, (1494-1499), silver testone (9.66g), (CNIV, 19 plX 10; Morosini 5, Biaggi 1579). Toned, very fine and very scarce.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,000
Italy, Naples, Robert I of Anjou, (1309-1343), silver gigliato; and Sicily, under Spain, Philip IV, 1622, silver tari (5.82g) bust right rev. shield; Charles II silver tari or 20 grani, 1693. Fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $100
Italy, Tuscany, Pietro Leopoldo, francesconi (ten paoli) 1770 (KM.21b). Toned, good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $300
SOLD $240
Italy, Venice, tallero, 1797 (KM.C.137). Good very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $180
Italy, under Napoleon, five soldi 1813M; Kingdom, V.Emmanuel II, twenty centesimo 1863M, fifty centesimo 1867M, one lire 1867M, two lire 1863N; Umberto, one lire 1887M, V.Emmanuel III, one lire 1908; ten lire 1927R. Very fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $150
SOLD $160
Italy, Victor Emmanuel II, silver fifty centesimi, 1863M BN (KM.4a.1). Hairline on neck, toned, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $300
Passed in
Iran, Nasir al-Din Shah, five kran, AH 1297 (KM.914). Good very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $180
Japan, Akita, one hundred mon, nd. (c.1862), (KM.6.1). Corrosion spot on obverse, otherwise good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
Japan, minors from 1859 in base metals and silver (14). Fine - extremely fine. (40)
Estimate $150
SOLD $120
Lebanon, as French Protectorate, silver fifty piastres 1929 (2), twenty five piasres 1929 (5), 1933, 1936 (6), ten piastres (5); Republic, fifty piastres 1952 (KM.17), other minors (8). Mostly fine a few better. (33)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Liberia, bronzed proof one cent, 1847 (KM.1). Red brown patina, nearly FDC.
Estimate $300
SOLD $340
Liberia, pattern two cents, 1847 (KM.Pn2). Red brown patina, nearly FDC.
Estimate $450
SOLD $390
Liberia, copper proof one cent, 1862, 6 over 4 (KM.3). Red and brown, nearly FDC.
Estimate $300
SOLD $300
Liberia, copper one cent, 1862 (6 over 4)(KM.3), pattern copper two cents, 1866 (KM.Pn12). Nearly extremely fine; damaged, very fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Liberia, bronzed proof two cents, 1862 (KM.4). Red brown patina, nearly FDC.
Estimate $450
SOLD $440
Liberia, one cent and two cents, 1896H (KM.5, 6). Red uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $160
Liberia, bronzed proof pattern one cent, 1866 (KM.Pn12). Red brown patina, nearly FDC.
Estimate $350
SOLD $300
Liberia, bronze one cent, 1896H (KM.5). Red uncirculated, slight obverse toning.
Estimate $80
SOLD $90
Liberia, bronzed proof two cents, 1847 (KM.2). Red brown patina, nearly FDC.
Estimate $450
SOLD $420
Luxembourg, Josse (Jodok) of Moravia, (1388-1402), silver gans or gros, issue of 1388-97, obv. around +IODOC . mARCh Z:DHS MORAVIE, coat-of-arms in trilobe, rev. around BHDICT . SIT HOm-En DHI . IHV . XPI . mOnETA LUC EHB, long cross pattee, (Weiller 157a). Toned, slight flan crack, old ink number (304) on reverse, otherwise good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $180
SOLD $400
Malawi, halfcrown, 1964; Biafra, two and a half shillings, 1969; Australia, Canberra florin, 1927; counterfeit halfcrowns, 1817, 1818, 1823, 1880, 1890, 1893, all poor in base metal. Poor - uncirculated. (9)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Malaysia, Penang, East India Company, half cent or half pice 1787 (KM.2.1), cent or pice 1787, with verdigris (KM.4). Nearly extremely fine, very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Malaya, Penang, East India Company, half cent, 1787, 1810, 1828 (2) (KM. 2.2, 12, 13); two cents, 1828 (KM.16). Also Sarawak, Rajah C. Brooke, one cent, 1870. Fine - very fine. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $260
Malaysia, Penang, East India Company, cent or pice, 1810, 1828 (KM.14, 15). Good very fine; very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $270
Malta, proof gold ten and twenty pounds, 1974 (KM.26, 7). FDC. (2)
Estimate $600
SOLD $580
Mauritius, George V, half rupee, 1934; George VI, rupee, 1938 (KM.16, 19). Good very fine. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Mexico, Charles and Joanna (1516-1556), cob one real, not dated, assayer L [1542-1555 for this assayer] (KM.0009); Philip IV (1621-1665), cob two reales, Mexico City Mint, no dates visible assayer P [1643-1654 for this assayer], (KM.28); cob one real, not dated but period of Philip III and Philip IV, Mexico City Mint on style (2), Potosi or Lima on style (3); another Potosi Mint, half real, not dated assayer T [1618-1648 for this assayer] (KM.8); another Bolivia, Philip IV, cob one real, Potosi Mint, assayer T [1629-1634 for this assayer], (KM.12a); Mexico, Philip IV (1621- 1665), cob four reales uncertain assayer no date, odd shape; cob eight reales, dated 1654, Mexico City Mint, assayer P (KM.38). Last coin with hoard encrustation, all with uneven shaped flans, first coin with two holes, last holed, poor - fine. (10)
Estimate $400
SOLD $340