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India, William IV, silver rupee 1835 plain (KM.450.1), 1835 F raised, (KM.450.2) (illustrated). First polished very fine, second toned, extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
India, William IV, silver rupee 1835 plain (KM.450.1), 1835 F raised, (KM.450.2), 1835 F incuse (KM.450.3). First lightly toned, good very fine, second and third polished, nearly very fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
India, Queen Victoria as Queen, silver rupees, 1876 bust A, reverse I (2), (KM.473.2); another as Empress, 1877 bust A, reverse I (2, one illustrated) (KM.492). Nearly extremely fine - nearly uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $380
India, British, Queen Victoria, proof restrike one twelfth anna, 1862 (KM.465). Nearly FDC.
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
India, British, EIC, Queen Victoria, rupee, 1840, continuous legend, 19 berries, dot after date (KM.457.2); EIC 1/12th anna 1835 (KM.445); 1/2 pice 1853 (KM.464); Imperial, quarter annas 1880C, 1889 (KM.486), 1914, 1930 (KM.512); two annas, 1908 (KM.505); quarter rupees, 1862C (KM.470), 1901C (KM.490), 1934C (KM.518); half rupee 1945L (KM.552); rupees, 1901B incuse (KM.492), 1919B (KM.524); Native State, Bundi, Victoria Queen rupee, 1871 (KM.Y.6); Burma 8 pe (1953) (KM.31a). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (18)
Estimate $300
SOLD $1,600
India, Queen Victoria as Empress, silver rupees, 1877 bust A, reverse I; another bust A reverse II, another similar dot below date (illustrated), (KM.492). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $420
India, Queen Victoria as Empress, silver rupees, 1880C bust A, reverse I, another 1880B, reverse II dot below date (3), (KM.492). Nearly extremely fine - nearly uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
India, Queen Victoria as Empress, silver rupees, 1884C bust A, reverse I (illustrated), another 1884B (B raised), (KM.492). Good very fine - good extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $300
India, Queen Victoria as Empress, silver rupees, 1885C bust C, reverse I (2) (one illustrated), another 1885B (B raised) another (B incuse), (KM.492). Fine - good extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $240
India, Queen Victoria as Empress, silver rupees, 1885C bust C, reverse I (2) (one illustrated), another 1886C, another 1885B (B raised), another 1886B (B incuse), (KM.492). Very fine - good extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $550
India, Queen Victoria as Empress, silver rupees, 1887C bust C, reverse I (4) (one illustrated), another 1888C, another 1887B and 1888B (illustrated) (both B raised), another 1888B (B incuse), (KM.492). Very fine - good extremely fine. (8)
Estimate $250
SOLD $700
India, British, Edward VII, cupro-nickel proof one anna, 1907B, (KM.504). Proof restrike, spotted and toned.
Estimate $350
SOLD $500
India, George V, copper twelfth annas, all Calcutta mint, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1920 (KM.509); Portugese India, cupro-nickel rupia, 1952 (KM.29), cupro-nickel escudo, 1958 (Km.33). Copper coins with full mint red, uncirculated. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
India, British, George V, cupro-nickel proof restrike four annas, 1921C, (KM.519). Brilliant, FDC with original mint envelope.
Estimate $700
SOLD $1,200
India, George VI, silver rupee, 1938(C) (plain), (KM.555). Nearly extremely fine, scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
India, a range of issues, mostly British Administration, ninetenth and twentieth centuries, mostly lower denominations, various rulers, includes, silver rupees (Sultans of Delhi ?) (3). Fine - extremely fine. (51)
Estimate $50
SOLD $280
India, R.Dawson and Co., Mangalore, Malabar Coast in four lines, rev. Frontiersman standing with rifle and axe, in bronze (26mm), struck in England c1860 (Pridmore 339). Even dark brown patina, very fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $500
SOLD $850
India, Assam Tea Gardens and General canteen tokens, Kookeecherra bronze 4 pice (Pridmore 59); Lungla Division, in bronze (Pridmore 69); Jalingah 3 annas in bronze (28mm) central hole (not in Pridmore, cf P.132); Model Mills Ltd (in Hindi) Thakkar 100.I.M.5 and .6) (2). Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $550
India, H.M. Mint Calcutta, 1 (anna) in brass (19mm) (Thakkar 100.2.4); Food Token, Amritsar, Ordnance Factory, in bronze (32mm); Company's minimum half rupee weight, rev countermarked F/Mu in bronze (23mm) (E.I.C.), one rupee weight, oblique milled Furrukhabad rupee in square frame in bronze (26mm), another legend on side only, also East India House depicted in a 1793 halfpenny token. Very good - very fine. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $340
India, various advertising tickets, medalets including Railway Mail Service in bronze (25mm); Union Bank of India, Safe Deposit key tag 1262 stamped (26mm) in cupro-nickel; a copper tally stamped 470; Silk Mercer Bombay in silver (?) (25mm); H.Pagett's Assam Tea Warehouse, Charles Henry Street, 3 in brass (22mm); The Khatau Mills (20mm) in aluminium (cf Thakkar 100.I.K.4), counterstamped brass discs HH over crowned head left (2); AB over 5, AR over 3, in cupro-nickel (thick); BG SC over 2; Madras Turf Club etc (6); Bombay Tramways button (London Make); Queen Victoria, rupee portrait, Made in Austria, Best Best German Silver; Bank of India bag tag. Very fine - extremely fine. (35)
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Indonesia, Sumatra, Sultanante of Palembang, Sultan Li Poh, tin pitis, dated c1450's. In 2x2 holders with collector's descriptions, very fine - extremely fine for type. (21)
Estimate $120
Passed in
Islamic, Turkoman figural bronze coins, Artuqid of Mardin, Qutb al-din II Ghazi II (572-580 A.H.), AE dirhem, not dated, obv. head to right in square looking upward, (S&S 31.1, Wilkes "Islamic Coins" 1204) (illustrated); Hasam al-din Yuluq Arslan (580-597 A.H.), AE dirham, 589AH, obv. group of four figures, (possibly mourning the death of Saladin in 589), (S&S 35.1, Wilkes); another dated 596AH, helmeted Turk with sword and severed head in hand (S&S 36.1, Wilkes 1209); Ayyubids, Mayyafariqin & Jabal Sinjar, al-Ashraf I Muzaffar al-din Musa (607-617 A.H., 1210-1220), silver dirhams (2), Mayyafiqin mint, 612AH, obv. turbaned prince seated facing holdingglobe in right hand, left hand on hip, rev. legend within and around trilobe, (Album 859.1, Balog 'Ayyubids" 851). Mostly fine - good very fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $270
Islamic, Mongol, Golden Horde, Mongol Juchid, silver dirhem, A.D. 1322 of Uzbek Khan A.D. 1313 -1341, Saray Al Mahruz Mint (EF); 13th century, Qrim and Saray Al Jadid, copper puls, Gulistan Mint. In 2x2 holders with collector's notes, fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Israel, five lirot, 1958 (KM.21), 1959 (KM.23), 1960 (KM.29), 1962 (KM.35), 1965 (KM.45, 1967 (KM.48), 1973 (KM.75.2). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (7)
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
Italy, Norman Sicily, William I, (1154-1166), 14mm, (0.74 g), AE follaro fraction, struck at Messina, c.1155, obv. Madonna holding infant Christ, rev. REX, legend within circle of Kufic letters around, ("Struck in Messina year 550"), (Spahr 99, MIR 33). Dark green patina, fine- very fine for issue.
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Italy, Kingdom of Sicily, Henry VI alone (A.D. 1194-1197), billon (25% silver) dirham fraction or quarter tercenarius, Palerno Mint issued December 1194-1195, (.53 g), obv. Arabic legend in Nashki script, (Caesar Augustus), rev. in three lines, Z/REX/SICIL, (MEC 477-478, Spahr 2 [RR], Biaggi 1780); Frederick II (1197-1250), billon denarius (0.74 g) issued 1243, obv. head right, rev. eagle (MEC 565ff, Spahr 128, Biaggi 1260); Conradin, (1254-1258), billon denarius (0.44 g), obv. Omega over CR, rev. cross, (MEC 595A, Spahr 175, Biaggi 1273); Manfred, (1258-1265), billon denarius, Messina mint, (0.77 g), obv. Tau between three pellets, rev. cross, (MEC 614, Spahr 211, Biaggi 1281); Charles I of Anjou, (1266-1285), billon follaro, Brindisi mint, (0.51 g), obv. Omega over KAR, pellet below, rev. cross with lys in each angle, (MEC 660, Spahr 50, Biaggi 498); James I, (1285-1296), billon denarius, Messina mint, (0.58 g), obv.crowned head left, rev. cross within inner circle, (MEC 769, Spahr 11, Biaggi 1309). Fine - very fine, all rare - very rare. (6)
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Italy, Sicily, Manfred (1258-1266), billon denarius, Messina mint, (0.75 g), obv. S with cross superimposed, rev. R with dots, omega above, traces of legend, (Spahr 199, Biaggi 1277, MEC 609A); Frederick III (1296-1327), billon denarius, (0.55 g), obv. head of crowned king left, rev. cross with dots (Spahr 46 var., Biaggi 1312, MEC 781); John II (1458-1479), billon denarius, Messina mint, (0.56 g), obv. eagle with open wings, rev. shield M C above, (Spahr 91, Biaggi 1354, MEC 889-893). Mostly rare, fine or better. (3)
Estimate $120
Passed in
Italy, Tuscany, second provisional government, five centesimi, 1859 (KM.C83). Very fine; good very fine. (2)
Estimate $50
Passed in
Italy, Venice, Andrea Contarini (1368-1382), AR soldino, obv. +ANDR$ 9 TARDUX, doge kneeling left holding cross, rev. +S.MARCVS VENETI, nimbate winged lion (Pao. 4 [p.35]). Good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $180
Italy, Venice, coinage for Candia (Crete), Giovanni Cornaro (Doge of Venice 1625-29), sixty tornesi or four soldi (29.5mm; 6.16g), obverse, rosette between two stars at top and rosette at bottom, reverse, winged lion of S. Marco standing left with Book of Gospel, in exergue the value (IIII) between two stars (CNI VIII, 166; Paolucci 892; Papadopoli 131). Good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $300