Catalogue
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
Italy, Victor Emmanuel II, silver fifty centesimi, 1863M BN (KM.4a.1). Hairline on neck, toned, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $70
Japan, silver twenty sen year 3, shallow scales (1870), (KM.Y.3); year 9 type II (1876) (KM.Y.24); silver five sen year 8 (1875) (KM.Y.22). Some brilliant, uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
Japan, a mixture of twenty and fifty sen, mostly 1930's includes, fifty sen (Yr11 & 12) 1936-37 (KM.Y50) (both Unc). Fine - uncirculated. (24)
Estimate $90
SOLD $400
Jamaica, Queen Victoria to George VI, farthings, 1882H, 1887, 1889, 1890H, 1893, 1894, 1897, 1899, 1900 (KM.15), 1902 (KM.18), 1904, 1905, 1906 (2), 1907, 1909 (KM.21); 1914, 1916H, 1918C (2), 1919C, 1926, 1932, 1934 (KM.24), 1937 (KM.27), 1938, 1942, 1945, 1947 (KM.30), 1950, 1952 (KM.33) Very good - good extremely fine. (31)
Estimate $180
Passed in
Jamaica, cupro nickel issues, Queen Victoria, farthing, 1888 (KM.15), halfpennies, 1884 (2), 1894 (2) and 1900 (KM.16); Edward VII, halfpennies, 1903 (KM.19), 1907 (KM.22), pennies, 1904, 1910 (KM.23); George V, pennies, 1920, 1926 (KM.26). First 1884 halfpenny only very good, otherwise very fine - good extremely fine. (12)
Estimate $250
SOLD $240
Jamaica, Queen Victoria to Elizabeth II, halfpennies, 1869 (2), 1870 (2), 1871, 1880 (3), 1882H (2), 1884, 1885 (2), 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890 (2), 1891, 1894, 1895 (2), 1897, 1899 (KM.16); 1902 (2), 1903 (KM.20), 1904-7, 1909, 1910 (KM.22); 1914, 1918C, 1920 (2), 1928 (KM.25), 1937 (KM.25), 1938 (2), 1940, 1942, 1945, 1947 (KM.31), 1950 (2), 1952 (KM.34), 1955, 1957, 1959, 1961, 1962 (2), 1965 (KM.36), 1964 (KM.38). Very good - good extremely fine. (56)
Estimate $300
Passed in
Jamaica, pennies, Edward VII to Elizabeth II, 1902, 1903 (KM.20), 1904, 1906, 1907, 1909 (2), 1910 (KM.23), 1914, 1918C (2), 1919C (2), 1920 (2), 1926 (3), 1928 (KM.26), 1937 (2) (KM.29), 1940 (2), 1942, 1945 (2), 1947 (2) (KM.32), 1950, 1952 (KM.35), 1953, 1955 (2), 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962 (KM.39), 1965, 1966 (KM.40). Fine - extremely fine. (39)
Estimate $220
Passed in
Jamaica, nickel-brass issues, George VI and Elizabeth II, farthings, 1938 (2), 1942, 1947 (2) (KM.30), 1950, 1952 (KM.33); halfpennies, 1937 (KM.28), 1955, 1958, 1961-3 (KM.36), 1964 (KM.38), 1969 (2) (KM.41); pennies, 1938 (2) (KM.32), 1960 (KM.39), 1965 (KM.40), 1969 (KM.42). Very fine - uncirculated. (21)
Estimate $70
SOLD $70
Keeling Cocos Islands, J.S.Clunies Ross, bone or ivory token for twenty five cents, 1910, serial No.648 (1913). Nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $200
SOLD $700
Keeling Cocos Islands, celluloid 'bone' token, J.Clunies Ross, 1913, two rupees 441. Very fine/fine.
Estimate $50
SOLD $500
Latvia, five lati, 1929 (2) 1931 (2) and 1932 (KM.9); two lati, 1925 (KM.8); Prussia, Wilhelm I, five mark, Hanover Mint, 1876 (KM.506). Very fine or better, the five mark cut. (7)
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Lithuania, Grand Duchy, Vladimiras Algirdas, Grand Prince of Kiev (1362 - 1395), silver denaras, Kiev Mint (Gumowski 440). Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Lithuania, sterling silver nine coin pattern fantasy Euro set, 2004 (Bruce. XPS2) by INA Ltd. In case of issue with certificate, FDC.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60