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India, Madras Presidency, EIC, silver quarter pagoda (1808) (KM.352). Toned, X punch mark on obverse, otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $260
India, Madras Presidency, silver rupee, Year 6, Arcot Calcutta Mint (KM.427): British India, EIC, Victoria rupee, 1840. (KM.457.1); George V, rupee, 1911 Calcutta (KM.523). Very fine or better. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $80
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Murshidabad type, Calcutta Mint, silver quarter, half (2), and rupee (1793) (Year 19) (Pridmore 159, 158 (2), 157). Very fine - good extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $280
Passed in
India, East India Company, silver half rupee, another a rupee (holed), both year 19 oblique milling, assorted 19th - 20th century copper to half annas, (27); Native states, Hyderabad silver (3) to half rupee, silver fanam, State copper, assorted issues from Indore, Gwalior, Baroda, Kalat, Ceylon 12th century (2), Bhutan etc. Mostly fine. (55)
Estimate $100
SOLD $340
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Calcutta Mint, Sikka pice, appears to be in white metal or pewter (8.37g) (cf Pridmore 204), possibly plated. Nearly very fine.
Estimate $80
Passed in
India, William IV - George VI, silver quarter rupees (23), silver two annas all Queen Victoria (6), various half pices (3), noted 1909 full mint red, 1912 some mint red, twelfth annas (17) 1835-1936. Fine - uncirculated. (59)
Estimate $100
SOLD $380
India, an accumulation of issues on two plastic sheets of British India all described in 2x2 holders or flips,, mostly 1835-1942, noted rupees of 1840 DL, 1877C, 1889B, 1901 (2, B and C mints), 1904, 1919B, 1942 B; half rupees of 1840DL, 1874, 1899; quarter rupees from 1835 (10); two annas 1841, 1912; various copper from 1/12th anna to half anna (14). Mostly fine - nearly uncirculated. (39)
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
India, Portuguese, Ludovicus I, silver eighth, quarter and half rupee, 1881 (KM.309-11). Extremely fine or better. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
India, assorted range of described issues in 2x2 and flips containinf Mogul emperors etc and native states, noted rupees Mogul of Muhammad Shah, French India rupee, Sikh empire, 1829 (KM.21); imitation issues of Akbar as temple tokens (2), half tanka of Mahmud Shah, Sultan of Malwa; Native states issues of rupees from Baroda, Hyderabad, Kutch (5 kori 1898), Mysore of Tipu Sultan AH 1217 reversed date (1789), year 7, Patan mint (KM.126) (illustrated); a gold fanam of Coorg; others in copper (8). Fine - extremely fine, Mysore scarce. (19)
Estimate $200
SOLD $460
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