Catalogue
Penang (Pulu Penang or Prince of Wales Island), East India Company silver half dollar, 1788, edge plain (not in collar), die axis upright or en medaille (Pr.1; KM.7). Planchet flaw in top left corner of shield, beautifully toned even light grey brown, nearly extremely fine and very rare, one of the finest known and a great South East Asian rarity.
Estimate $15,000
Passed in
Poland, Congress Kingdom, November Uprising (1830-1), pattern 5 zlotys, in copper, obverse and reverse struck separately and put together (H. Cz. 3660). Good very fine and very rare.
Estimate $2,000
Passed in
Russia, Aleksei Mikhailovich, (1645-76), silver yefimok (jefimok), 1655, counterstamped on a thaler of Maximillian II, 1578, Free Hanseatic city of Lubeck (Dav 9409 [host coin]), two countermarks "1655" in rectangular incuse, and Tsar on horseback right within circular dotted incuse. Usual striking flatness on reverse, very fine and scarce.
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $2,200
Saint Lucia, 6 Livres 15 Sols of 1813, made as a cut segment from a Spanish dollar of 1797 with obverse countermarked S:Lucie in relief within shaped indent, the cut edges are plain, (15.11 grams), (Pr.9 [same punch], Gordon Collection [Baldwin's Auctions] Sale 8 lot 104 [same punch]). The host coin fine, countermark very fine and very rare.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $3,200
South Africa, ZAR, Paul Kruger, silver five shillings, 1892, single shaft, Berlin Mint (KM.8.1). Traces of mint bloom, nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $2,000
Sweden, kingdom of, Frederick I, copper plate money, four daler, 1739 (KM.PM74). Minor green corrosion, very fine.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,700
USA, colonial, William Wood's Rosa Americana Coinage 1722-24, George I, twopence in bath metal, undated (1722) (Breen 8; Martin 2.1-B.1). Chocolate brown patina, well struck, uncirculated and one of, if not, the finest known.
Estimate $10,000
SOLD $6,500
USA, Draped Bust, silver dollar, 1799, normal date, 13 star reverse (KM.32). Surface roughness, lightly toned, nearly extremely fine.
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $13,500
World coins, crown size silver coins, Bermuda, 1964, Bahamas, 1970 (42.4g), Cyprus, 1928, Egypt, 1970, Germany, Bavaria, thaler 1771, India, rupee 1885 R raised, Iran (AH1312), Mexico, 1968, Norway, 1964, 1970, Philippines, 1969, Portugal, 1974, Venezuela, 1900, 1926, all in capsules. The Bavaria brooch pin mounted, very good - uncirculated. (14)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,000
World coins, balance of collection formed by Rudolf Sevcik (formerly of South Africa) laid out on homemade card trays, mainly South Africa, includes ZAR Paul Kruger, Southern Rhodesia, Mozambique, Switzerland, Germany, New Zealand, Australian Territory of New Guinea, some silver, silver crowns of South Africa (10), Southern Rhodesia 1953 (2), one large upright carton including multiple threepences in plastic clip seal bags (6.8kg). Fair - uncirculated. (approx 700)
Estimate $1,500
SOLD $3,600