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French India, silver rupee, Arcot mint in name of Shah Alam II, regal year 43, year 1220, issued A.D. c.1805-6, (KM.46). Good very fine.
Estimate $70
SOLD $40
French Indian possession of Pondichery, copper (1720-1835), cache (1), half doudou (2), doudou (10) obv. lily, rev. legend, (KM.33, 34, 35); doudou 1836-7 (8) most with dates off flan, obv. bird left, rev. legend, (KM.52); Danish India, four kas, 1843, (KM.161). Mostly fine or better. (22)
Estimate $120
SOLD $120
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Murshidabad Mint, 1793 Second Milled issue, Perpetual 19 san sicca series, Copies of Standard Silver Currency, in the name of Shah Alam II (A.H.1173-1221, A.D.1759-1806), rupees struck in silver (3), all Regnal Year 19 (fixed), with Privy mark for Murshidabad and with oblique milling to right rupee vertical graining, and plain milling, (Pr. 407, 408 (This Coin Illustrated), 409, cf.KM. 99, 108, 117). Extremely fine or better and all very scarce. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $100
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, Murshidabad Mint, 1793 Second Milled issue, Perpetual 19 san sicca series, Copies of Standard Silver Currency, in the name of Shah Alam II (A.H.1173-1221, A.D.1759-1806), rupees struck in good to base silver (4), all Regnal Year 19 (fixed), with Privy mark for Murshidabad and with vertical graining, and plain milling, another plated example of Farrukhabad rupee year 45, straight milling, (cf.P.326, Pr. 408, 409, cf.425 and another variant, cf.KM.70, 108, 117). One mounted, otherwise fine - extremely fine, scarce, two san 19 with unpublished legends. (5)
Estimate $90
SOLD $90
East India Company, Bengal Presidency, gold mohur, of Murshidabad mint type of 1793 issue but a jeweller's copy, of early 19th century manufacture with oblique milling, (cf.Pr.410). Of fine style, good very fine and a rare type lacking extra dot of the top line.
Estimate $250
SOLD $230
East India Company, Madras Presidency, 1817-1835, Third European Style Coinage, in the name of 'Alamgir II (A.H.1167-1173, A.D. 1754-1759), Madras mint, closed lotus type, silver rupee (2) different dies, half rupee (holed), sixteenth rupee, impressed with the mint name Arkat, type as mohur with frozen date, A.H.1172, Regnal Year 6, edge with centre graining to left, Sixteenth rupee edge grained to right, rupee similar Indian style rupee of 'Alamgir II, frozen date RY 6, (holed), (Pr. 140, 251, 253, 255, 257, KM. 384, 402, 408, 409, 410). Holed for two coins, otherwise very fine or better. (5)
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
East India Company, Madras Presidency, 1817-1835, Third European Style Coinage, in the name of 'Alamgir II (A.H.1167-1173, A.D. 1754-1759), Struck at Madras, closed lotus type, silver rupee, half rupee, impressed with the mint name Arkat, type as mohur with frozen date, A.H.1172, Regnal Year 6, edge with centre graining to left, large flan rupee, (Pr. 258, 259, KM. 414, 415). Toned. very fine or better. (2)
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
East India Company, Madras Presidency, 1823-1825 Coinage, in the name of 'Alamgir II (A.H.1167-1173, A.D. 1754-1759), Struck at Calcutta, rose mintmark type, silver rupee, half rupee, quarter rupee, eighth rupee, sixteenth rupee, impressed with the mint name Arkat, type as mohur with frozen date, A.H.1172, Regnal Year 6, edge with normal graining, eighth and sixteenth rupee edge grained to right, (Pr. 263, 264, 265, 266, 267, KM. 423-427). Nearly very fine. (5)
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
East India Company control, Shah Alam II (A.H.1173-1221) (A.D. 1759-1806), silver rupee, Gokulgarh mint, local Sindhia Governor Issue as Raja of Rewari as Rohilla governor, year [1]204, Regnal year 35 in name of Shah Alam II, issued 1792-1793, (KM. 624). As struck, porous obverse, otherwise extremely fine and rare.
Estimate $80
SOLD $0
East India Company, Queen Victoria, gold mohur, 1841 (KM 461.2). Rim bruise on the reverse otherwise extremely fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $540
George V, sovereign 1918 I (Calcutta). Extremely fine.
Estimate $180
SOLD $180
Baroda, Manaji Rao (Regent), (A.H. 1204-1208, A.D. 1789-1793), in the name of Shah Alam II (A.H. 1173-1221, A.D. 1759-1806), Baroda mint, silver rupee, without Nagari `MA', but with scimitar, not dated but regal date off flan, (cf.KM. C.17). Very fine, very rare.
Estimate $120
SOLD $0
Kishangarh, Madan Singh (A.H. 1318-1345, A.D. 1900-1926), or later, anonymous issues silver rupee, not dated, obv, legend in Nagari 'Chandi' = silver, (KM. Y.12). Fine - extremely fine, rare. (7)
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Mysore, Haidar Ali, (A.H. 1174-1197, A.D. 1761-1782), gold pagoda, obv. God and Godess seated facing, rev. letter 'He' in dotted field, (KM. 15). Good very fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Atkins, James, The Coins and Tokens of the Possessions and Colonies of the British Empire, London, Quaritch, 1889, 404pp. Illustrated line drawings throughout. Fine and scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
Auction catalogues, mostly ancient coins, including Glendining & Co., (7); Jean Elsen (4); Italo Vecchi Ltd (5); Leu Numismatik (2); Baldwin's (6); Munzen & Medaillen (2); Spink & Son; Dix Noonan Webb, Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd (15); Numismatica Ars Classica (4), together with coin magazines, Classical Numismatic Review (5), Coin News. Very fine - extremely fine. (43)
Estimate $150
SOLD $90
Berry, George., Seventeenth Century England : Traders and Their Tokens, London, 1988, 168pps.; Anglo, Sydney., Images of Tudor Kingship, London, 1992, 154pps.; James, Thomas Beaumont, The Palaces of Medieval England c.1050-1550, London, 1990, 188pps.; Rayner, P.Alan., English Silver Coinage Since 1649, London, 1992, 254pps.; Vince, Alan., Saxon London - An Archaelogical Investigation, London, 1990, 160pps.; Stahl, Svi., Jewish Ghettos' and Concentration Camps' Money (1933-1945), Tel Aviv, 1990, 103pps. All books are illustrated throughout, one book has soft cover, the others are hard bound. As new. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $130
Heyde, Gilbert Christoph, Renniks Unofficial Coins of Colonial Australia and New Zealand, Adelaide, 1967, 92pps, 14 plates. Light toning, as new.
Estimate $60
SOLD $80
(Heyde), Geoff K. Gray, auction sale catalogues (No.27, and 32) of the Gilbert Heyde Collection of Rare Coins and Tokens, Parts I, and III, sold March 17th 1973, 42pps., 11 plates, 772 lots; March 23rd, 1974, 40pps., 10 plates, 702 lots. As new and rarely offerred. (4)
Estimate $80
SOLD $120
Higham, Nicholas., Rome, Britain and The Anglo-Saxons, London, 1993, 263pps.; Perring, Dominic., Roman London, London, 1991, 149pps.; Hingley, Richard., Roman Settlement in Roman Britain, London, 1989, 229pps.; Manton, E.Lennox., Roman North Africa, London, 1988, 144pps.; Sutherland, C.H.V., & Carson, R.A.G., Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol VII, Constantine and Licinius A.D. 313-337, reprint, London, 1997, 778pps + 24 plates. All books illustrated, one book has a soft cover, the others are hard bound. As new. (5)
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Hoberman, Gerald., The Art of Coins and Their Photography, London, 1981, 397pp., 131 plates; Jones, John Melville., A Dictionary of Ancient Greek Coins, London, 1986, 248pp.,; Sear, David R., Greek Coins and Their Values, Volume II, Asia and North Africa, London, 1979, 445 + XLVIIIpp.,; Noe, Sydney, P., with additions and corrections by Ann Johnston, The Coinage of Metapontum, Parts 1 and 2, American Numismatic Society, New York, 1984, 120 + IXPP, 44 plates. Nearly as new - as new. (4)
Estimate $150
SOLD $170
(Hunt, Bunker), Sotheby's, New York, The Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Important Greek and Roman Coins, June 21 and 22, 1990, @400pps, lots 165-953, almost every lot illustrated, colour plates, prices realised list, hardbound with colour dustjacket. Most important, as issued and very scarce.
Estimate $130
SOLD $110
(Hunt, Bunker), Sotheby's, New York, The Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, Important Greek and Roman Coins, December 4, 1990, @300pps, lots 1-117, Every lot illustrated enlarged in colour and black and white, with prices realised list, hardbound with colour dustjacket. Most important, as issued and very scarce.
Estimate $130
SOLD $110
(Hunt, William Herbert), Sotheby's, New York, The William Herbert Bunker Hunt Collection, Highly Important Byzantine Coins, December 5 & 6, 1990, @300pps, lots 962, almost every lot illustrated, with prices realised list, two colour plates, hardbound with colour dustjacket. Most important, as issued and very scarce.
Estimate $100
SOLD $120
(Hunt, William Herbert), Sotheby's New York, The William Herbert Hunt Collection of Important Byzantine Coins, sale June 21, 1991, @200 pps, 646 lots, with prices realised list, two colour plates, many lots illustrated. Most important, as issued and very scarce.
Estimate $90
SOLD $0
(India), Allan, John., Catalogue of the Coins of Ancient India, London, (1926), New Delhi reprint 1975, 318 + clxvii pp., XLVI plates; another Catalogue of the Coins of the Gupta Dynasties and of Sasanka, King of Gauda, London, (1914), New Delhi reprint 1975, 184 + cxxxviii pp., XXIV plates; another Rapson, Edward James., Catalogue of the Coins of the Andhra Dynasty...., London (1908), New Delhi reprint 1975, 268 + ccviii pp., XXI plates. Nearly as new with original dust jackets. (3)
Estimate $100
SOLD $70
Mattingly, H., and Sydenham, E.A., Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol 11, Vespasian to Hadrian, reprint, London, 1997, 568pps., XVI plates; Sutherland, C.H.V., and Carson. R.A.G., Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol VII, Constantine and Licinius A.D. 313-337, reprint, London, 1997, 778pps., 24 plates. As new. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $140
Milczak, Czeslaw, Catalogue of Polish Banknotes 1916-1994, Warsaw 2000. As new.
Estimate $80
SOLD $40
Sear, David R., Greek Coins and Their Values, Volume 1 - Europe, 316pps., illustrated; Volume 2 - Asia and Africa, 762pps., illustrated, London, 1997. As new. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
SPASSKY, I.G., Talers in Russian Currency 1654-1659, Leningrad Russia, 1960, hardbound, 71 pages, 24 plates, (three page English summary), (text in Russian). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $100
SOLD $90