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Nepal, Shah Dynasty, Tribhuvana Vira Vikrama (VS1968-2007, 1911-1950), silver one rupees, (average 11 g), VS1989 (4) (KM.724) (one illustrated); one rupees VS2007, VS2008 (2), VS2009 (3) (KM.726); silver fifty paisa VS 2009 (4), (KM.716); copper two paisa various dates (8), (KM.709.1). Copper mostly very fine, silver, good very fine - good extremely fine. (22)
Estimate $100
SOLD $280
Netherlands, Flanders, Louis the Bad (1346-1384), silver plaque or double gros, c1350 (4.02g) (Roberts 8155; Thomsen (Grierson CME) 3797). Toned, very fine or better and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $240
Netherlands, Overijssel, six stuivers, 1691 (KM.50); Utrecht, six stuivers, 1764 (KM.85), sheepjesschelling; William I, silver twenty five cents, 1826. Very good - very fine. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Netherlands, William II, silver twenty five cents, 1848 dot, 1849 (KM.76). Good very fine; good extremely fine/nearly uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Netherlands, William III, bronze two and a half cents, 1877, 1881, 1883 (KM.108); Wilhelmina, silver half gulden, 1905 (KM.121.2), 1912 (KM.147). Very fine - nearly uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Netherlands East Indies, one cent 1942 (8), one tenth gulden 1942S (46). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (54)
Estimate $150
Passed in
New Hebrides, Valesdir, N.A.T., nickel-plated zinc token for 1$ (shilling) (26mm). Usual blistering surface, otherwise very fine and extremely rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
North Africa, Egypt, Suez Canal, Borel, Lavelly and Compagnie, 20 and 50 centimes, one franc 1865 in brass. Nearly extremely fine, the last rare. (3)
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,300
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Association Alimentaire in brass (25mm) edge scalloped, Desert/ ville d'Alexandrie. Nearly extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, G.Bossi, confectioner, 10 (17mm) and 20 paras in brass (20mm). Nearly extremely fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $220
SOLD $220
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Banque Generale D'Egypte, Alexandria/ lion rampant left in bronze (28mm). Very fine and rare (not in the Ford Collection).
Estimate $180
SOLD $280
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Bazaar Du Bon Marche/Une Chope in brass 25mm (a refreshment token for one beer); Beylerian & Sons Beirut and Alexandria, automatic Armenian weighing machine token in brass (27mm); H&G K/5 m(ills) in nickel plated zinc (24mm) by M.Fremolle Alexandria; another in brass (24mm) but for 10 mills and lion walking right on obverse, another as last but different reverse die, a decorative border and no maker's name. Very good - very fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $340
North Africa, Egypt, Patisserie de la Bourse, value 1, in cupronickel (25mm); Concordia Skittles, Alexandria, 1871 for 10 in brass (22mm); Grand Cafe, Mohamed Aly in cupronickel (25mm); Hilton Cafeteria in brass (23mm); Sinai Casino, in brass (35mm), value 5. Very good - good very fine. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $260
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Casino du High Life/1 in brass (24mm), Mansourah, Caf? du Nil, A.D.Pappanicolaou/5m(ills) Fremolle Alexandrie (maker's name). Very fine and rare. (2)
Estimate $140
SOLD $220
North Africa, Egypt, Docks & Entrepots de Port-Said around 22 in centre, uniface in thin copper (30mm) reverse stamped M. A dock worker's tally or pass to pier 22. Edge wrinkled from being worn(?) otherwise very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $110
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Negreponte, J.C.& Sons 1 within legend/griffin rampant left within beaded circle, in bronze (27mm) edge milled. Good very fine and rare.
Estimate $180
SOLD $380
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, Peel & Co., 1 within legend/lion rampant left holding sprouting bean(?), in copper (27.5mm) edge milled. Very fine and rare.
Estimate $210
SOLD $480
North Africa, Egypt, Alexandria, James Ralli & Co., in bronze, value 3; Association Alimentrine, Alexandria, for meat (25mm), another for wine (23mm); Casavetti Brothers & Co., Alexandria, rev. No. 2, in bronze (22mm). Very fine - extremely fine. (4)
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,500
North Africa, Egypt, Cairo, Brasseries Rennies/PTI in brass (25mm); B.B.K. 5 above and below/same on reverse in Arabic in brass (24mm); Imperial Bar Cairo around 1/the Great Pyramids 1909 in brass (20mm); Grand Trianon C(offee) Co. in brass (24mm) (circa 1890), another (19mm); Cairo Tramways 1920 (24mm). Fine-very fine, the last two rare. (6)
Estimate $160
SOLD $340
North Africa, Egypt, Gezira Sporting Club 10 Milliemes/blank in brass (26mm)(circa 1950)(illus); Heliopolis, Luna Park Restaurant/I, in brass (20mm)(illus); Minieh, Splendid-Bar, set of 5, 20, 50, 100 (illus)& 200 M in nickel alloy; Locality unknown, Buffet de Zeitoun 10 mill/in brass (26mm)(illus); Roy/P.T. 2? in cupro-nickel (24mm) ST Monogram in shield surrounded by P 2 B, uniface in cupro-nickel (32mm). Very good - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $300
SOLD $340
North Africa, Egypt, Cairo, Kit Kat lido 5 and 10 piastres (illustrated) in brass (26mm and 33mm) reverse GC monogram; Lemonia's Oriental Tea Rooms Cairo/P.T. over large 1, in brass (26mm) (illustrated), Lipton's Oriental Tea Rooms Cairo around Cairo in centre, another around 2, both uniface in brass (21mm and 19.5mm) (illustrated); Nouvelle Boulangerie De Choubrah Caire, around Arabic legend, uniface in brass (26mm); Photomaton/Cairo in brass (23.5mm); Tsakiris Freres Le Caire/Buffet Excelsior 10mms (milliemes) in nickel alloy (26mm). Very good-very fine. (8)
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
North Africa, Egypt, Cafe Bar Emad El Din/I in brass (26mm); New Cafe Bar Bourse C.D. in centre/1 in brass (26mm); Fantasio Garden, G.Demetriades uniface in brass (25mm); Soleiman Hatem, uniface in brass (30mm) holed at top (illus); Sphinx/KM in brass (23mm)(cf Ford lot 449 reverse crown)(illus); Medina, Emilio Luna around 2 signed A Popert Paris, octagonal in brass (23mm)(illus); Caffe in brass (20mm)(illus); Shampoo Diva (A.H. 1330) in brass (20mm), another no English legend in brass (16mm); Musee Egyptian in aluminium (22mm). Fair - very fine some rare. (10)
Estimate $140
SOLD $260
North Africa, Egypt, Fantasie Garden G.Demetriades, Giza, uniface in brass (25mm); Cairo Bar/monogram CD Co (ex C.Fox); Boromeo, J., Alexandria, in brass (26mm) rev. plain; Grand Bar, Abbas, in brass (28mm) PS monogram; Cafe Khadival, Gazis Brothers, Cairo in cupronickel (24mm); Deutscher Beer, Cairo, 1/2 piastre, in brass (23mm); St.George's Bar Cario in brass cf CCG monogram in brass (25mm); Brosieries, Reunies, Cairo, P&T in silvered zinc (25mm); Biere des Pyramids, in brass bracteate (22mm); Splendid Bar Cairo, in brass, rev. sphinx and pyramid (22mm); Buffet Bar Cairo; Tseppas, F., Cairo, 5 milliemes in brass (26mm); Buffet Excelsior Tsakiris & Co, 10 milliemes, in cupronickel (26mm); Ministerial Club Cairo, in brass (25mm), 5 milliemes (2); Brasseries Rialto, value 1 in brass (28mm); Splendid Bar Tantah, Ath. Hantzalis, 5 milliemes in brass (24mm); Karl Klemmler, Cairo, value 1 in brass (24mm), in collector's packets. Very good - extremely fine. (17)
Estimate $400
SOLD $400
North Africa, Egypt, Union Paper, cigarettes, in bronze (28mm), Maspero Brothers, Cairo, in gilt and enamel (23mm); Salonica Cigarette Company, Cairo in brass (26mm); La Couronne Brasserie in brass (28mm); aluminium token for 5 countermarked E sigma twice (24mm); aluminium tram token (24mm) Alexandria c1930; Mattssian Cooperative, Giza, hole in centre, in bronze (27mm); elephant 15 m in brass (24mm); CCC monogram in nickel (28mm); Blue-Bird Travel & Tourist Agency Port Said, Quick Trip to Cairo/Orient line Orcades in silver plated brass (32mm); Souvenir of Egypt 1914-5 in silvered brass (28mm); TS in nickel 2 P(iastres) in cupronickel (33m); J.K.S. 40 (para) 20 (para) XU, another KU; BM/23 large square brass blank (45mm); Arabic inscription both sides in brass (7), zinc (2); uninscribed celluloid discs, different shapes (6) camel lion jeton in brass (23mm), brass with Farouk portrait left (19mm); M.Habib Egyptian Novelties in brass (17mm) miniatures or toy coin (ex Format); New Zealand YMCA 5m/m checks in brass (3 different). Fair - extremely fine. (31)
Estimate $240
SOLD $1,400
North Africa, Egypt, General Automatics of Egypt 1/2 PT (pint or piastre) in trade in bronze (21mm); Kasr-el-Nil Terrasse, Cario J.Z., value 1 in brass (26mm). Fine - extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Panama, silver ten and twenty five centesimos 1904 (KM.3, 4). Uncirculated; nearly uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $680
Panama, Republic, five centesimos 1916 (KM.2); ten centesimos 1904 (3) (KM.3); one tenth balboa 1953, 1961 (2) (KM.18, 24); twenty five centesimos 1904 (KM.4); quarter balboa 1947, 1961 (KM.11.1, 25); half balboa 1930 (KM.12.1). Very good - good very fine, the first scarce. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $130
Panama, Republic, 1966-1975, one 1967, 1968, two and a half 1973, and five centesimos in nickel 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973; one tenth 1968, 1970, 1973; quarter 1968, 1970, 1973; half 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973; one balboas 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975; twenty balboas, 1971, 1973, 1974, all in Supreme album. Extremely fine - FDC. (25)
Estimate $500
SOLD $420
Panama, proof silver twenty balboas, 1971 (KM.29), 1972, 1974 (KM.31). In card boxes of issue, soiled, nearly FDC - FDC. (3)
Estimate $250
SOLD $340
Panama, proof silver twenty balboas, 1973, 1974, 1975 (KM.31). In card boxes of issue, soiled, extremely fine - FDC. (3)
Estimate $250
SOLD $340