Catalogue
Mexico, Charles IIII, eight escudos, 1798 FM (KM.159). Vertical scratch behind bust, mint bloom, good extremely fine - nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $3,000
SOLD $3,200
Mexico, Charles III, silver eight reales, pillar type, 1760 M.M., Mexico City Mint (KM.105). Attractive mint bloom, grey toning, extremely fine and rare thus.
Estimate $500
SOLD $850
Mexico, Charles III, silver eight reales (2), pillar type, 1760 M.M. and 1767 M.F., Mexico City mint (KM.105); also a lead copy dated 1757. Test cut otherwise good very fine; nearly very fine. (3)
Estimate $300
SOLD $950
Mexico, Charles III, silver eight reales, pillar type, 1769 MF Mexico City mint (KM.105). Even grey tone, good very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $700
Mexico, Charles III, silver eight reales, pillar type, 1770 F.M. Mexico City Mint (KM.105). Rubbed otherwise nearly very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $600
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1791 F.M. Mexico City Mint (KM.109), another dated 1797 with Chinese chop marks. Good fine; very good. (2)
Estimate $150
SOLD $280
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1793 F.M. Mexico City Mint (KM.104). Rim bruises, nearly very fine/very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $190
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1796 F.M. Mexico City Mint (KM.109); another, 1797 F.M. (KM.109). Good very fine; porous otherwise nearly very fine. (2)
Estimate $250
SOLD $260
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1800 F.M. Mexico City Mint (KM.109). Some mint bloom, nearly extremely fine/ extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $420
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1805 T.H. Mexico City Mint (KM.109). Very fine/ good very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1806 T.H. Mexico City Mint (KM.109). Cleaned, nearly very fine/very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $220
Mexico, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1803 F.T. Mexico City Mint (KM.109); another but dated 1808 T.H. (KM.109). Nearly very fine/very fine; good very fine. (2)
Estimate $300
SOLD $260
Mexico, Ferdinand VII, silver eight reales, 1809 T.H. Mexico City Mint (KM.110). Mint bloom on reverse, good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $300
Mexico, Ferdinand VII, silver eight reales, 1811 H.J. Mexico City Mint (KM.110). Toned, nearly very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $240
Netherlands, Holland, gold ducat, 1781 (KM.12.3, Delmonte 775, F.250). Nearly uncirculated, rare as such.
Estimate $900
SOLD $1,300
Netherlands, Holland, silver 1/4 gulden (or 5 stiver) 1759 (KM.100). Extremely fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $260
Netherlands, Holland, silver gulden, 1764 (KM.73). Toned, good fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
Netherlands, Westfriesland, silver gulden, 1793 (KM.102.3). Full mint bloom, uncirculated.
Estimate $200
SOLD $480
Netherlands, Batavian Republic, Gelderland, silver gulden, 1795 (KM.8.1). Toned, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $130
Netherlands, East Indies, Westfriesland, silver gulden, 1786 VOC (KM.139). Very fine/good very fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $330
Peru, Charles III, eight reales, pillar type, 1770 Lima (KM.107). Nearly very fine.
Estimate $350
SOLD $480
Peru, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1797 I.K. Lima Mint (KM.97). Considerable mint bloom, extremely fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $550
Peru, Charles IIII, silver eight reales, 1803 J.P. Lima Mint (KM.97). Nearly full original mint bloom, nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $350
SOLD $950
Portugal, Maria I, gold four escudos or peca, 1793 (KM.299; Vaz M1.14). Well struck, good extremely fine and scarce.
Estimate $1,750
SOLD $2,200
New South Wales, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII silver eight reales, 1793 F.M. Mexico City Mint (not listed in Mira/Noble, would be 1793/9) dies A/6.30:I/1. Well struck, H for Henshall very clear, slight oxidation in three spots, otherwise a really good very fine and very rare.
Estimate $150,000
Passed in
New South Wales, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies A/1). Traces of centre of reverse of Spanish American eight reales on the obverse, old cut at top of obverse, with three slight rim bruises, well struck, good very fine.
Estimate $12,000
Passed in
New South Wales, holey dollar 1813 (2) replicas by Becker for Varne (W.A.) in 1970s (see Mira-Noble, p. 76), one using a 1780 matrix and the other 1796, also a replica 1813 dump. Very fine. (3)
Estimate $200
SOLD $600
Adelaide pound, 1852, second type with crenellated inner circle on the reverse. Minor marks left of crown, sharply struck and early die state example, good extremely fine.
Estimate $15,000
SOLD $18,000
Port Phillip, Kangaroo Office, restruck gilt bronze (12.49g) one ounce piece, 1853 'Pure Australian Gold', plain edge. From original dies by W.J. Taylor, London, restrike by Stokes 1919 (?). Good extremely fine and extremely rare if not unique.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $4,200
Queen Victoria, first type, 1855. Some mint bloom in the legends and devices, surface marks otherwise very fine.
Estimate $5,000
SOLD $4,800