Catalogue
British Guiana, Colonies of Essequibo and Demerary, silver half guilder 1809 (Pridmore 15; KM.5). Attractive tone, full mint bloom uncirculated.
Estimate $350
SOLD $900
British Guiana, Colonies of Essequibo and Demerary, George III, silver quarter guilder, 1809 (Pridmore 20; KM.4). Toned uncirculated.
Estimate $300
SOLD $550
British Guiana, Colonies of Essequibo and Demerary, George III, proof copper stiver, 1813, by Thomas Wyon Jr., engrailed edge (Pridmore 29A; KM.10). Brilliant with light pinkish tone, FDC and rare.
Estimate $750
SOLD $1,200
British Guiana, Colonies of Essequibo and Demerary, copper half stiver, 1813 (Pridmore 30; KM.C4). Traces of mint red, good extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
British Guiana, United Colony of Demerary and Essequibo, George III, silver two guilders, 1816 (Pridmore 8; KM.14). Light multicoloured tone, extremely fine or better and rare.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,600
British Guiana, United Colony of Demerary and Essequibo, George III, guilder, half, and a quarter guilder, 1816 (Pridmore 11, 16; KM.13, 12, 11). Very fine/good very fine; good extremely fine; good extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $400
SOLD $650
British Guiana, United Colony of Demerary and Essequibo, William IV, silver one guilder, 1832, 1835; half guilders, 1832, 1835; quarter guilder, 1833, 1835; eighth guilder, 1832, 1835 (Pridmore 12, 13, 17, 18, 23, 24, 26, 27; KM.25, 23, 22). Toned, fine - extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $300
SOLD $410
British Guiana, William IV, silver guilder, 1836 (Pridmore 14; KM.25). Possibly lacquered, well struck and proof-like, toned, nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $500
SOLD $950
British Guiana, William IV, silver half guilder, 1836 (Pridmore 19; KM.24), silver quarter guilder, 1836 (Pridmore 25; KM.23), silver eighth guilder, 1836 (Pridmore 28; KM.22); United Colony of Demerary and Essequibo, quarter guilder 1832 (Pridmore 22; KM.217). Lightly toned, extremely fine - good extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $700
SOLD $1,900
British Guiana, Trade and Navigation/ Copper Preferable to Paper, copper one stiver, 1838, edge plain (Pridmore 60; Lyall 111) (2); Middlemass, Brothers & Co., Georgetown Demerara, advertising check in brass, c1870 (Pridmore 63; Lyall 116). Very fine or better. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
British Guiana, Richard P. Kaps, Georgetown, jeweller, miniature gold medal or imitation gold dollar (14mm; 1.42g) (Pridmore 69, this piece). Extremely fine with no signs of mounting and very rare thus.
Estimate $500
SOLD $460
British Guiana, Pickersgill Saw Mills Ltd., Pomeroon, British Guiana, truck or shop ticket in brass (38mm) for one dollar in merchandise (Lyall 117) undated but circa 1910. Good fine and rare.
Estimate $160
SOLD $130
British Guiana, Pigersgill Saw Mills Ltd., Pomeroon, British Guiana, truck or shop ticket in brass for 50 cents (32mm) (Lyall 118). Nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $160
SOLD $130
British Guiana, Pickersgill Saw Mills Ltd. Pomeroon, British Guiana, truck or shop ticket in brass for 25 cents (27mm) (Lyall 119). Nearly very fine and rare.
Estimate $140
SOLD $130
British Honduras, Henry Ganz, 1 1/2d in copper (20.5mm) 1885 (Pr. 76; Lyall 129; Rulau 1). Usual die crack on the reverse, practically mint state with traces of original mint red and rare.
Estimate $720
SOLD $470
British Honduras, Corozal, Jones & Young 1 1/2d token in copper (21mm) 25th October 1875 (Lyall 131; Rulau 20). Pierced at top otherwise very fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $320
SOLD $210
British Honduras, Queen Victoria - George V, silver twenty five cents, 1894 (2), 1895 (2), 1901, 1907 (6), 1911 (3), 1919 (4) (KM.9, 12, 17). Very good - good fine. (18)
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
British Honduras, Queen Victoria, silver twenty five cents, 1901 (KM.9); silver fifty cents, 1895 (40), 1897 (KM.10); Edward VII, silver twenty five cents, 1907 (KM.12). The first fine, the last good fine, the others poor - good. (43)
Estimate $350
SOLD $650
British Honduras, Queen Victoria - George VI, silver fifty cents, 1894 (39), 1897 (5), 1906 (4), 1907 (7), 1911 (6), 1919 (18); silver ten cents, 1918, 1936, 1939 (2), 1942, 1943, 1944 (2) and 1946. Generally poor - nearly fine. (88)
Estimate $600
SOLD $500
British North Borneo, estate tokens, Labuk British North Borneo, copper dollar, fifty cents and twenty cents, plain edges (Pr.39-41). Brilliant mint red, uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $600
SOLD $950
British Trade Dollar, 1895B (raised) (KM.15). Extremely fine.
Estimate $600
SOLD $1,450
British West Africa, Edward VII - Elizabeth II, tenth of a penny, 1908 (2), pennies, 1907 (extremely fine) - 1910, 1911 (2); halfpennies, 1936, 1937, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1951, in bags (10) in quantity; pennies, 1919 - later years, 1936-1951 in bags (17) in quantity; George V silver shillings, 1913H (2), 1914H (2), 1919H; two shillings, 1913, nickel-brass threepences, 1936, sixpences 1920KN, 1924, 1933, 1935; George VI, shillings, 1938, 1939, 1942, 1942H, 1943, 1945, 1945H, 1946, 1947, 1947KN, 1949; two shillings, 1938H, 1938KN, 1939KN, 1942KN, 1947H; better grade pennies, 1937H, 1937KN, 1946H, 1947H, 1947KN, 1952 red; halfpennies, 1949H (2), 1949KN, 1952; sixpences (30), 1938, 1940 (2), 1942, 1947H; threepences (35), better grade 1938KN, 1939KN, 1947H; also Nigeria, halfpennies (a30), pennies (a45), threepences (a25), sixpences (9), shillings (12), two shillings (10) all 1959 (generally uncirculated). Poor - uncirculated. (approx 800)
Estimate $400
SOLD $750
British West Africa, George V, one tenth of a penny, 1926, 1931 (KM.7); halfpenny, 1919KN (KM.8); pennies, 1911H, 1918H, 1922KN (KM.6, 9); proof sixpence 1936KN (KM.11b); silver shillings, 1913H; proof nickel brass shilling, 1920KN (KM.12, 12a), also a penny blank. The sixth and last fine, others nearly uncirculated - FDC and rare. (10)
Estimate $400
SOLD $1,500
British West Africa, George VI, proof halfpenny, 1944 (KM.18); proof pennies, 1937H (KM.19), 1952 (KM.30a); proof sixpence, 1938 (KM.22); proof shilling, 1938 (KM.23); shilling, 1952KN (KM.28); two shillings, 1938KN. Nearly uncirculated - FDC and rare. (7)
Estimate $800
SOLD $3,500
British West Africa, George VI, nickel brass shillings, 1938 (4), 1943 (3), 1947, 1947H (2) (KM.23), 1951KN (9), 1952KN, 1952H (KM.28). Mostly full mint bloom, some with spotting, extremely fine - uncirculated. (21)
Estimate $250
SOLD $700
British West Africa, George VI, nickel-brass florins, 1938KN (3), 1939KN, 1942KN (2), 1946H, 1946KN (2), 1947H, 1947KN (8) (KM.24), 1949H (2), 1949KN (9), 1951H. The last extremely fine, others mostly with full original mint bloom, some spotting, nearly uncirculated - uncirculated. (30)
Estimate $600
SOLD $1,400
British West Africa, Elizabeth II, cupro-nickel threepences, 1957H (KM.35). One has been gilt, one very fine, other seven some toning, otherwise extremely fine or better. (11)
Estimate $300
SOLD $1,050
British West Indies, or colonies in general anchor coinage, George IV, silver quarter dollar 1822; eighth dollar 1820, 1822/1, 1822; sixteenth dollar, 1820, 1822/1, 1822 (KM.1-3; Pridmore 10, 11, 12). Attractive iridescent tone, uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,800
British West Indies, Barbados, George III, proof copper halfpenny, 1792 high rim, thick flan, struck in a collar, plain edge (Pridmore 25; KM.Tn9) a later restrike. Mostly red, FDC.
Estimate $400
SOLD $550
British West Indies, Barbados, Moses Tolanto, farthing, (Pr.28; Lyall 95; Rulau 12). Nearly extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $280
SOLD $190