Catalogue
Marathas, Poona (East India Company issues from 1820-1834), silver rupees, Fasli era dates, 1230, 1238, 1241, 1243 (1820, 1828, 1831, 1833), (KM. 217). Very fine or better. (4)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Marathas, Poona, silver rupees, axe type A.H. 120x, (KM.215), another no date; Ankusi rupee, A.H. 1207, year 20, (A.D. 1792-3), (KM.217); eighth rupee with ankus symbol, nd., (KM. 207). Gohadaji II (A.D. 1761-1778), (KM.C.22); large copper falus (19.9 grams), (KM.-). Very fine - extremely fine, last two rare. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Mysore, Haidar Ali (A.H.1174-1197), (A.D.1761-1782), gold pagoda (3.1gms), undated issue, uncertain mint, obv. god and goddess, rev. letter 'He' and lines, around dots (KM.15, M.8971-971a). Very fine, scarce variant.
Estimate $70
SOLD $50
Orchha, silver rupees, Vikramajit Mahendra, (A.H. 1211-1233, A.D. 1796-1817) in the name of Shah Alam II, 1211 (year 39), 1214 (year 42), 1215 (year 4[3]), 1218 (year 46), 1233 (year 40), 1233 (year 7); silver half rupee 1211 (year 41); copper paisa, [1]211 year 41, (KM. 25, 31, 32). Very fine or better. (8)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Travancore, Bala Rama Varma I (1798-1810) and Rama Varma IV (1860-1880), silver chuckram, not dated, (KM.1, 21, C.11, Y.8). Very fine - extremely fine. (72)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
Travancore, Rama Varma VI, (1885-1924), milled coinage, copper cash, not dated, (KM.46, Y.41.1). Fine - brilliant uncirculated. (Approx.375)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Native States, various copper paisas and fractions, from Awadh (3), Arcot (3), Bahawalpur (11), Banswara (2), Baroda (18), Bhopal, Bikanir (2), Bundi (2), Bindraban, Cambay, Chamba (2), Chhota Udaipur (4), Datia,, Dewas, Dhar, Dungarpur, some duplication, a varied range of dates and types all described on sheets. Fine - extremely fine, some scarce. (54)
Estimate $150
SOLD $190
Queen Victoria - Edward VII, Calcutta Mint, specimen (restrikes) half pice 1862, 1904, 1905, 1906, East India Company, proof half pice 1853. All coins with original envelopes. FDC.(5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Queen Victoria - George V, silver rupees 1840 (3, all different), 1880, 1884, 1885, 1889, 1890, 1905, 1917, 1918. Fine - good extremely fine. (11)
Estimate $60
SOLD $60
Queen Victoria - George VI (1947), a range of issues, includes silver rupees (6), half rupees (10), quarter rupees (32) and others to twelfth anna. Mostly very fine - uncirculated, some with mint bloom. (105)
Estimate $120
SOLD $130
Queen Victoria - George VI, a range of issues from 1833-1947, includes eight silver, denominations to half rupee. Good - extremely fine. (42)
Estimate $50
SOLD $30
An album containing coins of India/Indian States including Indo Scythian Azes II (35B.C.-5A.D.), drachm, Western Satraps, Rudrasimha II (305-313), drachm, Hyderabad, Kashmir, Travancore, British India East India Company. All coins annotated. Poor-uncirculated.(202)
Estimate $600
SOLD $480
India & other issues, gold fanams (3) Mysore, Travancore (2); other issues including modern copies of Kushan issues gold copied in silver and base metal (4), modern copies of Indo-Greek bronze (2), temple token for two rupees (22.4 grams), temple/mosque obverse, kalina reverse, (cf.Brotman Type T, No.6); and a copy in gold of a quarter new altin of Turkey, Mahmud II (1808-1839). Mostly very fine or better. (11)
Estimate $50
SOLD $50
India, temple tokens, a collection mostly in base metal of different types (many similar to those in Brotman 'A Guide to the Temple Tokens of India') lot also includes a Temple Token as an imitative fractional gold mohur of Akbar (2.14 grams). Mostly very fine. (39)
Estimate $100
SOLD $230
India, Shillong Soldiers Club, tokens to the value of '1' and '4'. Very fine and rare.(2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
Islamic, Umayyad Caliphate, al-Walid I (A.H. 86-96) (A.D. 705-715), silver anonymous dirham, Wasit mint (on Euphrates River), A.H. 94 = A.D. 712-3, (A.128, M.55, BMC 538). Full flan, extremely fine.
Estimate $60
SOLD $0
Islamic, Umayyad Caliphate, al-Walid I (A.H. 86-96) (A.D. 705-715), silver anonymous dirhams, Wasit mint (on Euphrates River), A.H. 94, 95 and 96 = A.D. 712-5, (A.128, M.55, BMC 538, 539, 541). Fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
Islamic, Umayyad Caliphate, Yazid II (A.H. 101-5) (A.D. 720-724), silver anonymous dirham, Wasit mint (on Euphrates River), A.H. 105 = A.D. 723-4, others Hisham (A.H. 105-125) (A.D.724-743), Wasit mint, A.H. 113, 120, 123, 124 = A.H. 731-2, 737-8, 740-2, (A.128, 137, cf.M.57-61, BMC 548, 561, 570, 574, 576). Fine - good very fine, three with smaller clipped flans. (5)
Estimate $100
SOLD $30
Islamic, Umayyad Caliphate, al-Walid II, (A.H. 125-126) (A.D. 743-744), silver anonymous dirham, Wasit mint (on Euphrates river), A.H. 126 = A.D. 743-4, (A.138, cf.M.61, BMC 576). Slightly crinkled, very fine and rare.
Estimate $60
SOLD $30
Islamic, Umayyad Caliphate, Marwan II (A.H. 127-132) (A.D. 744-750), silver anonymous dirhams, Wasit mint (on Euphrates River), A.H. 128, 130 (2) = A.D. 745-6, 747-8, (A.142, cf.M.61, BMC 583, 585). Fine - very fine, one crinkled. (3)
Estimate $80
SOLD $60
Islamic, Abbasid Caliphate, al-Mansur, (A.H. 136-158) (A.D. 754-775), silver anonymous dirhams, Al Mohammadiyah mint (Teheran, Iran), 150 (767-8), 155 (771-2); Al Kufah A.H. 145 (762-3); Madinat al Salam (Baghdad) A.H. 154 (770-1); Al Basra mint (Basra), A.H. 143 (760-1), 144 (761-2), 145 (762-3), 146 (763-4), 147 (764-5), many with additional field letters, (A.213, cf.M.140, 143, 147, 148). Fine - good very fine. (9)
Estimate $120
SOLD $90
Islamic, Abbasid Caliphate, al-Mahdi, (A.H. 158-169) (A.D. 775-785), silver anonymous dirhams, Al Mohammadiyah mint (Teheran, Iran), 161 (777-8), 168 (784-5); Madinat al Salam (Baghdad) A.H. 160 (776-7); two with additional field dots or letters, (A.215, cf.M.159, 163). Fine - very fine. (3)
Estimate $60
SOLD $40
Islamic, Abbasid Caliphate, al-Rashid (A.H. 170-193) (A.D. 786-809), silver anonymous dirhams, Al Mohammadiyah mint (Teheran, Iran), 186 (802-3), 188 (2) (803-4), 189 (2) (804-5), 190 (3) (805-6); all with additional field letters, (A.219, cf.M.185-187). Nearly very fine - extremely fine. (10)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Islamic, Abbasid Caliphate, al-Rashid (A.H. 170-193) (A.D. 786-809), silver anonymous dirhams, Madinat al Salam (Baghdad) A.H. 187 (2) (802-3), 188 (803-4), 189 (804-5), 190 (2) (805-6), 191 (806-7), 192 (807-8), 193 (2) (808-9), most with additional field letters, (A.219, cf.M.175-180). Fine - good very fine. (11)
Estimate $100
SOLD $90
Ilkanids, Local Coinage, First Period, Arinchen Turji Gay Khatu ibn Abaga, (A.H. 690-694) (A.D. 1291-1294), gold dinar, Tabriz mint, (4.07 grams), date A.H. 691 = A.D. 1291-2, (A.2158, cf.M.1583 [silver dirhem]). Well centred, weak in places, very fine and rare.
Estimate $280
SOLD $0
Ilkanids, Local Coinage, First Period, Baidu (Baydu) ibn Teraghai ibn Hulagu, (A.H. 694) (A.D. 1294), gold dinar, Tabriz mint, (4.01 grams), but off flan, date A.H. 694 = A.D. 1294, (A.2164, cf.M.1588 [silver dirhem]). Off centred, weak in places, good very fine and rare.
Estimate $280
SOLD $0
(Abramowitz), Superior Stamp and Coin Inc., Auction sale catalogue of the Abramowitz Family Collection of Judaean & Biblical Related Coinage, sold December 8 1993, 561 lots, illustrated throughout, with estimates. As new.
Estimate $50
SOLD $60
Adams, Edgar, H., The Julius Guttag Collection of Latin American Coins, Quarterman reprint, 1974 (1929), Lawrence, Mass., 527pps, illustrated throughout, with dust jacket. As new.
Estimate $60
SOLD $50
(Ainslie, Lieut.-Gen. George Robert). Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage: taken from the cabinet of a Fellow of the Antiquarian Societies of London and Scotland; of the Royal Societies of France, Normandy, and many others, British as well as foreign, London, Hearne, 1830, 4to, x + 167 (+1) pp., (bound with) Supplement to the Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage, London, John Hearne, 1847, (4) + 32 + (3)pp., 2 plates, bound with, Catalogue of the valuable collection of coins & medals of the late General Ainslie ...entire.. important and well-known series of Anglo-French coins which will be sold by auction, London, S.Leigh Sotheby, June 3-6, 1840, with names or purchasers and prices printed in. Three parts, in one volume, cloth, the supplement is uncommon and the auction catalogue rare, worn on corners and binding, otherwise fine and very rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $300
Akers, David, W., United States Gold Coins, An Analysis of Auction Records, Volume I Gold Dollars 1849-1889, 1975, 110 pps., Volume II Quarter Eagles 1796-1929, 1975, 248 pps., Volume III Three Dollar Gold pieces 1854-1889 and Four Dollar Pieces 1879-1880, 1976, 92 pps., Volume IV Half Eagles, 1795-1929, 1979, 393 pps., Volume V Eagles 1795-1933, 1980, 322 pps.,Volume VI Double Eagles, 1849-1933, 1982, 404 pps, all from Englewood, Ohio, hard bound. Fine, now out of print, important. (6)
Estimate $250
SOLD $270