Catalogue
Italy, Papal Coinage, Pius XI, (1922-1939), silver 10 lire 1936 (KM.8); Sede Vacante 1939 (KM.21); Pius XII (1939-1958), various issues (6), 100 lire 1957, 10 lire 1952, 2 and 5 lire 1952, 1 lira 1942 and 1952; John XXIII (1958-1963) 100 lire 1960 (KM.64.1); Paul VI (1963-1978), 500 lire 1963 and 1969 (KM.83, 115), 100 lire 1965 (KM.82). Extremely fine - uncirculated. (12)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Japan, Empress Shotoku, (A.D. 765 - 770), Jingu Kaiho, one cash (25mm, 3.8 g). Good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Japan, Emperor Sho Taikyu, Ryukyu Islands, Tai Sei Tsuho (A.D. 1444 - 1460), one cash. Fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Emperor Shaiokyu, (A.D. 1460 - 1465), Siko Tsuho (Currency of The Board). Fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Japan, Tokugawa, two shu, undated (1832-58) (KM.C#18) (1.65g); Meiji, two bu, undated (1868-69) (KM.C#21d) (3.00g). Very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $160
Japan, various issues, from 1832 including gold two shu (from D.Rider 16/5/83 & 28), silver shu (2); porcelain one sen 1945, four mon, one mon (1668-83) (2), other minors, cash in 2x2 holder described as bought in Brisbane 1980-83. Fine - extremely fine. (13)
Estimate $100
SOLD $240
Japan, Mutssuhito silver yen, yr.3 (1870) (KM.5.1) (26.51g). Trace of mounting on edge at 8 o'clock, porous surface, otherwise very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Japan, bronze sen, Meiji yr 13 (1880) (KM.Y17.1); silver one yen, Meiji yr 28 (1895) (KM.Y.A25.3). Very fine; extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $260
Japan, Meiji, Mutsuhito silver one yen, yr 21 (1888), yr 28 (1895), yr 36 (1903) (KM.YA25.3). The first with chopmarks fine, otherwise very fine, nearly very fine; good extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $240
SOLD $280
Japan, ten sen, 1906 (KM.Y#23); fifty sen, 1916 (KM.Y#37.2). Extremely fine; uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $50
Japan, mixed dates twenty sen, 1906-11 (KM.Y#30). Fine - very fine. (5)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
Japan, fifty sen, 1909 (KM.Y#31), 1917 (KM.Y#37.2), 1923 (KM.Y#46), 1932 and 1936 (KM.Y#50). Very fine - nearly uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $90
SOLD $60
Japan, mint sets, 1970 (KM.MS2). In wallets of issue in original Osaka Mint wrapper with letter, uncirculated. (5)
Estimate $200
SOLD $120
Java, Japanese Occupation, ten sen in tin alloy (1943) (Schwan 2209). Traces of mint bloom, extremely fine and very rare.
Estimate $350
SOLD $440
Keeling Cocos Islands, celluloid 'bone' tokens, J.S.Clunies Ross, 1913, twenty five cents (937), one rupee (205), two rupees (29), five rupees (317). Very good - good very fine. (4)
Estimate $750
SOLD $900
Korea, Yi Dynasty, Sejong The Great, (A.D. 1423 - 1425), Cho Son Tong Bo - one cash (23mm, 3.73g). Fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $130
Korea, Treasury Department, one hundred Mun, (39mm, 23.06g), undated, (c1866) (KM.143). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Malaya and British North Borneo, one cent, 1940 (KM.2), five cents, 1941 (4) (KM.3), 1943, 1945 (KM.3a); ten cents, 1939 (KM.4), 1941 (4) (KM.4), 1943 (3) (KM.4a); twenty cents, 1939 (KM.5). In Dealer's 2x2 holders with notes, references and pricings, mostly extremely fine and better. (16)
Estimate $60
SOLD $70
Malta, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Alof de Wignacourt, Grandmaster, (1601-1622). AE 3 grani (KM.8); Antoine de Paule (1623-1636), AE grano 1628 (KM.50); Manoel de Vilhena, (1722-1736), AE grano, 1726, obv. Maltese cross, rev. winged arm left, holding sword upright. (KM.140) (illustrated); Emmanuel de Rohan, (1775-1797), AE ten grani, 1786, (KM.C.40) (2); five grani 1790 (KM.C.39.1). Very good - good fine. (6)
Estimate $100
SOLD $400
Malta, Order of Knights of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta), Ramon Despuig y Martinez de Marcilla, Grandmaster, (1736-1741), silver two scudi 37mm, (23.88 g), Valletta mint, dated 1738, obv. cuirassed bust right, rev. crowned coat-of-arms, (Schembri 6; KM 204.1). Toned, filed all around edge, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $480
Malta, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Emmanuel Pinto, Grandmaster, (1741-1773), silver 30 Tari 42mm, (28.95 g). Valletta mint, dated 1757, obv. crowned and garnished coat-of-arms, rev, St. John the Baptist standing facing slightly right, holding banner; to lower right, lamb seated left, head right, (Schembri 4-5; Davenport 1600; KM A256). Toned, light marks, faint hairlines in fields, filed on edge and mounted on obverse, otherwise good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
Malta, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Emmanuel Pinto. Grandmaster, (1741-1773), silver 15 Tari, (14.29 g). Valletta mint, dated 1759, obv. crowned and garnished coat-of-arms, rev, St. John the Baptist standing facing slightly right, holding banner; to lower right, lamb seated left, head right, (KM.16); another silver scudo, 1764 (KM.14a); another 4 tari 1768 (KM.10b). Toned, first coin mounted on obverse, otherwise very good - fine. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $320
Malta, Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Francisco Ximinez de Texada, Grandmaster, (1773-1774), silver scudo, (11.40 g), Valletta mint, 1774, obv. Armored and draped bust right; rev. 1774, two crowned coats-of arms within wreath of palm frond and olive branch, (KM. 32); Emmanuel de Rohan, Grand Master, (1775-1797), silver scudo dated 1796, (11.10 g), (KM. 48) (illustrated); another silver tari, 1777, (0.86 g), (KM.42.2). First coin with filed edge, otherwise fine, others nearly very fine or better. (3)
Estimate $120
SOLD $380
Malta, Knights of Malta (Knights Hospitaller), Ferdinand Hompesch, Grand Master, (1797-1798), silver 30 tari, 40mm, (29.82 g), Valletta mint, dated 1798, obv. Bust left, rev. crowned double-headed eagle with coat-of-arms on breast, (Davenport 1611; KM 345.3). Extremely fine, attractively toned.
Estimate $300
SOLD $520
Mexico, Charles I and Johanna (c.1536-1545), silver real M.L.; half real 1784, 1798 F.M., 1808; real 1807; two reals 1736 M.F.; 1781 F.F, 1787 F.M.; Peru, two reals 1800 I.J. The first, fifth and sixth holed, otherwise toned very fine; others fair - nearly extremley fine. (9)
Estimate $200
SOLD $340
Mexico, Philip IV, cob silver eight reales 1653 (25.86g), full date (KM.45); Peru, Ferdinand VII, silver eight reales, 1818 J.P. Lima Mint (KM.117.1). First porous, otherwise as struck; second very fine. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $600
Mexico, Charles III, eight reales or pillar dollar, 1761 MM, Mexico City Mint (KM.105). Interesting Chinese chopmarks, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
Mexico, Ferdinand VII, eight reales 1821 RG, Zacatecas Mint (KM.111.5) (2) (NGC XF Details Surface Hairlines; NGC AU Details Surface Hairlines). Toned extremely fine; good extremely fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $200
Morocco, (North Africa), Mohammed III, (1757-1790), silver mitqal (ten dirhems), AH1189 (1775/6, Rabat Mint (27.94g) (KM.41, Album 592). Toned good very fine and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $360
Morocco, Moulay Abd al-Rahman, copper fals AH1262 (KM.C.122a.1), 1264, another AH1262, Rabat al-Fath Mint (KM.C.122a.5a.5), two fulus AH1268 (KM.C.126a) another AH1276 (KM.C.126b.1), four fulus, plain reverse, anonymous (2), silver dirhams AH124? (KM.C.140) (2) (both holed), AH 1268, Marakesh Mint (KM.C.140c.4); Sidi Mohammed IV, copper fals, AH1279 (KM.C.160.1), another AH1278 (?) (cf KM.163.1), copper four fulus AH1286, 1288, 1290, Fez Mint (KM.C.166.1) (3), 1288 Marrakesh Mint (KM.C.166.2), two fulus, Marrakesh Mint, no date, silver dirhams AH 1283 and 1284, Fez Mint (KM.C.176a.1) (2). Very good - very fine. (19)
Estimate $150
SOLD $200