Catalogue
China, selected items from the collection from different provinces, noted modern copies in FDC of five and ten cash Sinkiang (KM.Y.1a, Y.2a) dated as 1906 and 1910 and issues of Szechuan-Shensi Soviet as modern copies 200 cash (1934) (KM.Y.511a); one and five cents of Consolidated Soviet Republic (KM.Y.506a, Y.507a); Manchurian Provinces, twenty cents c.1914-5 (KM.Y.213a.1); Szechuan, 200 cash, year 2 (1913) (KM.Y.459.1); Kwang Tung, fifty cents, nd (1890-1905), (KM.Y.202); Honan Province, 200 cash, (KM.Y.396a); others from Kwang Tung in silver and copper (12). Very fine to FDC. (21)
Estimate $180
SOLD $190
China, Republic, General Issue, silver dollar not dated (c.1912), obv. Li Yuan-hung facing with bare head and military uniform, rev. ONE DOLLAR, (KM. Y.321, Kann 639). Lightly toned, otherwise brilliant uncirculated and scarce.
Estimate $300
SOLD $1,600
China Republic, General Issue, silver dollar, not dated (c.1914), obv. Yuan Shih-Kai facing with plumed cap and military uniform, rev. ONE DOLLAR, commemorating founding of the Republic (KM.Y.322, Kann 642). Grey tone, extremely fine.
Estimate $500
SOLD $950
China, Republic, silver dollar, year 3 (1914) 9, (1920), obv. left bust of Yuan Shih-kai in military uniform, (KM. Y.329, 329.6). First coin very fine, second brilliant uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $190
China, Republic, Sun Yat Sen, silver dollar or yuan (1932) birds over junk (KM.344). Full original mint bloom, attractively toned, uncirculated and very scarce.
Estimate $500
SOLD $1,350
China, Republic, General Issue, silver dollar, dated year 21 (1932), obv. Sun Yat-sen bust to left, rev. Junk to right with three birds flying above, (KM. Y.344, Kann 622). Brilliant good extremely fine and rare in this condition.
Estimate $400
SOLD $1,300
China, Republic, silver dollars, Sun Yat-sen left nd (1927), others junk dollars year 22 (1933), (KM. Y.318a, 345); Chihli Province, 24th year (1898), (km.65.2); Kiangnan Province, 1900 (KM.Y.145a.4); China, Empire, Central mint, Tientsin, under Hsuen Tung (1908-1911), issued in 3rd year(1911), silver dollar, obv. facing dragon, rev. inscription around and within inner circle, (KM.Y31, Kann 227). Fine - extremely fine. (5)
Estimate $120
SOLD $300
China, Republic silver dollars, Sun Yut sden (1932) (2); Ionian Island lepton 1834; South Africa ZAR penny 1898 and minors in base metal (26) and two dollar notes (2) (R.89). Fine - uncirculated. (39)
Estimate $70
SOLD $160
China, Republic, Kweichow Province, one yuan, 1928 (KM.Y428) "auto dollar". Fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $1,200
Comoros, token coinage, Societe Anonyme De La Grande Comore, twenty-five centimes ND (1922) (KM. Tn1a). One small toning spot on one bead on the reverse otherwise brilliant uncirculated and rare.
Estimate $250
SOLD $280
Cook Islands, Elizabeth II, fifty cents (ca.1972), uniface reverse trial in lead of the adopted design, by James Berry (cf.KM6.1). Very fine and rare.
Estimate $200
SOLD $0
Costa Rica, type VI counterstamped coinage of 1849-1857, on a Great Britain Shilling of 1844 (KM.95), another with countermark on a half real 1848 (KM.68); another of Cuba (and some Trinidad circulation) coinage countermarked of 1841 with a lattice on a two reales 1807 Seville mint (holed) (KM.3); other countermarked coinage of Spain with IIII as a four maravedis; Great Britain, shilling 1874 with several sharp countermarks with a leek (Wales), a shamrock (Ireland) and a thistle (Scotland); Ceylon, (Sri Lanka), Sahasa Malla (1200-1202), gilded ocopper kahavanunu (M.840); Russia, kopecks of Tsar Theodore Ivanovich (1584-1598) and another of Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich (1645-1676). Very good - very fine, an intereting lot. (8)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Crete, Prince George, silver two drachmai, 1901, (KM.8); fifty lepta 1901 (KM.6), two lepton 1901 (KM.2); five, ten and twenty lepton 1900A, (KM.3-5). Good - very fine, first with uneven tone. (6)
Estimate $150
SOLD $230
Crete, Prince George, silver five drachmai, 1901, (KM.9). Good fine, edge knock and with uneven tone.
Estimate $150
SOLD $150
Cuba, Souvenir silver peso, 1897, (Bruce X M2). Steel blue patination, good extremely fine, scarce,
Estimate $250
SOLD $360
Cyprus, Famagusta siege coin by Turkey, AE issue under Doge Petro Loredan, dated 1570. Very fine or better, scarce and a very interesting piece.
Estimate $600
SOLD $400
Cyprus, Queen Victoria - Elizabeth II, nine piastres 1901 (VF), 1913 (F), 1938, 1941; four and a half piastres 1901, 1938; half piastre 1891 (gVF), quarter piastre 1901 (nEF/EF), 1905, 1926; others from 1934-1955 (17). Fine - nearly uncirculated. (27)
Estimate $250
SOLD $800
Cyprus, Queen Victoria - Elizabeth II, forty five piastres 1928 (KM.19); eighteen piastres 1901, 1907, (KM.7, 10). Fine - nearly extremely fine. (3)
Estimate $250
SOLD $700
Cyprus, 1955-1976, three mils 1955(4), fifty mils 1955, one mil 1963 (3) five mils 1963 (4) twenty five mils 1968 (5), one hundred mils 1963, five hundred mils 1976 (2) all in 2 x 2 holders. Uncirculated. (20)
Estimate $50
SOLD $0
Czechoslovakia, Republic (1923-37) and post-war (1947-60) collection which includes fifty koruns (KM. 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 44) and one hundred koruns (KM.45) all in near uncirculated condition, as well as a small selection of six WWII coins from Slovakia. Very fine - uncirculated. (47)
Estimate $250
SOLD $280
Danzig, pfennig, 1923, 1929, 1937 (KM.140); two pfennig, 1923, 1926, 1937 (KM.141); five pfennig, 1923, 1928 (KM.142); ten pfennig, 1923 (KM.143), 1932 (KM.152); half gulden, 1932 (KM.153); gulden, 1923 (KM.145), 1932 (KM.154); two gulden, 1923 (KM.146), 1932 (KM.155). Very good - extremely fine. (15)
Estimate $170
SOLD $570
Danzig, Free City, silver five gulden, 1923 (KM.147). Good very fine, scarce.
Estimate $200
SOLD $260
Danish West Indies, twenty cents 1859, 1862 (KM.67), 1905 (KM.79); ten cents 1859, 1862 (KM.66), 1905 (KM.78); two cents 1905 (KM.76); ten skilling 1845 (KM.16); two skilling 1837, 1848 (KM.13, 19); other issues (10); Danish India (2), four cash 1835, 1842 (KM.159.1, 161); Croatia, two kune 1941 (KM.2); Paraguay, one and two centavos 1870 (KM.2, 3); Hejaz, countermarked coinage, forty paras 1327/9 (KM.5); Greek Islands countermarked coinage on ten paras 1277/4; Europe, commemorative silver medal for half dollar, 1952 with Dwight W. Eisenhower. Good - extremely fine. (27)
Estimate $150
SOLD $320
Denmark, various issues, including twelve skilling 1722 (KM.521); 16 skilling 1716 (KM.505); half skilling 1857; one skilling 1771, 1815, 1856, 1867, 1872; 1/5th rigsbankskilling 1842; one rigsbank skilling, 1818, 1842 VS, 1852, 1853 (KM.688, 726.2, 754, 756); two rigsbankskilling 1818 (KM.689). Mostly very fine or better. (14)
Estimate $200
SOLD $220
Denmark, Christian VI (1730-1746) silver 24 skilling 1732 CW (KM.536). Very fine.
Estimate $100
SOLD $160
Denmark, Frederick VI (1808-1839) silver rigsbankdaler 1813 M, (KM.683.1). Good very fine.
Estimate $250
SOLD $250
Denmark, Christian VIII (1839-1848), silver rigsbankdaler, 1842 FK VS, (KM.735.1); Frederick VII (1848-1863) silver rigsdaler 1855 FF VS, (KM.760.2). Very fine; fine. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Denmark, Christian VIII death and Frederick VII accession, silver specie dalar 1848, (KM.742). Extremely fine or better, scarce.
Estimate $600
SOLD $0
Denmark, Christian IX (1863-1906) silver one krone 1875 CS (KM.797.1); silver two kroner 1888, commemorative of 25 years of reign, (KM.799). Extremely fine; uncirculated. (2)
Estimate $100
SOLD $80
Denmark, assorted issues from 1874 to 1967, mostly in base metal, lot includes two kroner 1937 25th anniversary of reign (KM.820). Very good - uncirculated. (36)
Estimate $100
SOLD $0