Catalogue
China, odd and curious money, traditional cast sword (late Ching, 'new cash for the rich'); talisman string of cash (over 100 pieces) and smaller one (5 pieces); money tree c.1600 (13 cash as cast from clay mould), Chinese coin doll (late 1700s) repaired and paint retouched; Peking glass trade beads in string or necklace; wooden seed coin recording what was put onto cash coins, Emperor Ma Tsung, 1567-1572; Yuen Bo money to be burnt as offering for dead person; all described and attached to display board. Fine very fine. (8)
Estimate $300
SOLD $220
China, various cash, 3 described in envelope (8), Hu Peh ten cash (1851-61) (KM.C.13-6); Tao Kuang (1851-61) fifty cash (KM.C.1-7). Fine - very fine. (10)
Estimate $150
SOLD $400
China, assorted copper, silver, and fantasy issues, provincial coinage, Kwangtung, twenty cents (3); Hupeh, ten and twenty cents (2); Szechuan, copper twenty cash (2); Hunan, copper ten cash, Hung-hsien ten cash; Qing dynasty, Tai-Ching-Ti-Kuo copper ten and twenty cash; plus 8 minor Chinese and Japanese base metal coins, modern charms (2), fantasy chinese dollars (2) and Japanese yen copy. Poor - very fine. (25)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
China, Qing Dynasty, cash coins, various years. Fine - very fine. (99)
Estimate $50
SOLD $110
China, Song Dynasty, cash coins, various years. Stored on a string, good - fine. (approx 100)
Estimate $350
SOLD $220
China, AE cash coins, a variety of dynasties and emperors, majority Tang (83), also includes Western Han (1), Song (7), Yuan (1), Ming, (11), Qing (1), all identified in 2x2 holders. Fine - very fine. (104)
Estimate $120
SOLD $200
China, assorted issues, Han Dynasty, bronze plaque with decorative relief; Song Dynasty, Emperor Taizong, Chunhua YuanBao charm (45mm), Republic, Szechuan Province, brass 50 cash, 1912, brass 10 cents, 1912 (in a slab by NGC as AU details - cleaned); plus 15 assorted AE cash. Fine - extremely fine. (19)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
China, Empire, amulet or presentation piece, Tianxia Taiping coin, Emperor Guangxa Tongbao, Board of Revenue style (Harthill 30.40, plate 160). Smooth patina, good very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
China, Republic, Yunnan Province, silver paddle sack (saddle) sycee (157.18g), three stamps with two countermarks in centre (cf. Cribb Class LXVI). Toned, very fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $900
China, Taiwan, 100th Anniversary of Sun Yat-sen, cupro-nickel 5 and 10 dollars, silver 50 and 100 dollars 1965 (KM.Y.537-540). Silver toned, uncirculated. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $300
Cyprus, British Administration, bronze half piastre, 1879 (KM.2). Good extremely fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
Dominica, British Administration, contemporary forged cut countermakred of the silver 11 bits, emergency issue, 1798 authorisation, fifteen crenated punch hole on Charles IIII eight reales, 1794 FM Mexico City (cf KM.3.1 [countermark], KM.109 [host]). Dark toned, very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $1,600
Dutch East Indies, copper duits, Utrecht, 1746, 1786; Holland, 1744, 1751; Java, 1808; Batavia, 1821; local imitations, Borneo, 1766, 1792; French Interregnum, (1806-11), Java, 1810 (2); plus Louis XV, (1715-1774), Nuremberg, brass rechenpfennigs (3), all identified and described in 2x2 holders. Fine - good very fine. (13)
Estimate $120
SOLD $140
Dutch East Indies, Maluka, Borneo, British Merchant Token, Alexander Hare, copper duit, 1813 (AH 1228) (KM.5). Very fine for issue, traces of a host coin on obverse.
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
Dutch East Indies, Maluka, Borneo, British Merchant Token, Alexander Hare, copper duit, 1813 (AH 1228) (KM.5). Very fine for issue.
Estimate $150
SOLD $380
Dutch East Indies, Batavia, Republic, silver rupee, 1801-Z, Java mint, mint master J.A. Kwekkert (KM.208). Very fine.
Estimate $150
SOLD $240
Egypt, Fuad I, bronze half millieme, 1932 AH 1351 (KM.343), a little hoard in a calico bag. Brown and red - red uncirculated. (76)
Estimate $750
SOLD $850
Fiji, George V - Elizabeth II, 1934-1968, complete collection halfpennies to florins, in press-in album. Fine - uncirculated. (97)
Estimate $250
SOLD $240
France, Philip IV, (1285-1314), silver denier Tournois, issued from 1307-1310, obv. cross legend around, + PHILIPPVS REX, rev. Chatel Tournois, around TVRONVS CIVIS, star stops, (C.248, Dup.223A, Roberts 2417); Philip VI, (1328-1350), silver denier Tournois, issued from 1329, obv. legend around, + PHILIPPVS REX, in centre FRA/ODN. rev. cross, around PARISIVS CIVIS, (C.246, L.276, Dup.273A, Roberts 2572). Fine - very fine. (2)
Estimate $200
SOLD $140
France, Louis XV - Louis XVI, 1 sol 1773 W, 1785 A, 1786 W (KM.545, 578); Republic, un decime, overstruck on an earlier issue (KM.645). Fine - good fine. (4)
Estimate $140
SOLD $170
France, Louis XV, silver ecu, 1752 D (Lyon). Adjustment marks and edge knocks, patchy toning, fine.
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
France, Republic and Empire, mostly base metal, 1777 - 1992, includes silver five francs 1860 BB, silver ten francs 1963, 1967 - 1972, fifty francs 1978 with four unsused Supreme albums 1960 - 2001 series, in one large carton, coins in plastic album and 2x2 envelopes. Fair - uncirculated. (approx 500)
Estimate $1,000
SOLD $1,600
France, Second Republic, silver fifty centimes, 1850 A (KM.769). Dark toned, nearly uncirculated.
Estimate $100
SOLD $60
France, Third Republic, twenty five centimes, 1916, dash under MES type (KM.867). Uncirculated.
Estimate $100
Passed in
German States, Electorate of Saxony, Johann Georg I, (1611 - 1656), silver reichsthaler specie, 1647 CR, Dresden Mint, mint master Constantin Rothe (Dav ST-7601, KM.425). Evidence of mounting, file marks on edge, very fine.
Estimate $300
SOLD $460
German States, Hanau-Munzenberg, Philipp Moritz and Katharina Belgica in the name of Ferdinand II, silver taler, (23.73 g), 1622, Hanau Mint, salvaged from the wreck of the Batavia (KM.52, Dav 6688). Very good/ good, saltwater corrosion and deposits on reverse.
Estimate $2,000
SOLD $1,800
Germany, Brunswick-Luneburg-Callenberg, silver thaler (29-59g), Iohan Friedrich, 1666 LW (KM.85; Davenport 6549), semi-inner circle on obverse variety. Possibly has been mounted, polished, otherwise good fine.
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Germany, Cologne, Free City, Joseph I, silver thaler, 1705 (28.71g) edge grained right (KM.402; Davenport 2183; Noss 568). Struck slightly off centre on the obverse, otherwise good very fine and rare.
Estimate $8,000
SOLD $7,000
Germany, Hamburg, silver two marks, 1901 J (KM.612). Uncirculated.
Estimate $150
SOLD $100
Germany, Prussia, Wilhelm II, pattern two mark 1913A in silver (KM.54) (8.2g) restrikes (?) (2); Great Britain, Southampton halfpenny token 1791 plain edge (D&H 89b) (possible replica). Brilliance, choice uncirculated. (3)
Estimate $300
SOLD $300