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Auction 26 | September 15-17, 2016 | Session D World Coins Session D Begins on Friday, September 16, 2016 at 14:00 PDT World Coins Europe (continued) 1232. GREAT BRITAIN: Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660, AR crown, 1658/7, KM-D207, Dav-3773, ESC-240, Spink-3226, Oliver Cromwell Protector issue, original Thomas Simon strike, a couple small reverse rim bumps, one-year type, VF, S $2,000 - 2,200 1227. GIBRALTAR: AE 2 quarts (9.08g), 1802, KM-Tn2.2, payable at R. Keeling, EF-AU $120 - 160 1233. GREAT BRITAIN: Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660, AE medal, 1658, Eimer-203, 38mm, death medal of Oliver Cromwell in silvered bronze, draped bust left with OLIVARIUS CROMWELL. around and I.DASSIER.F. at bottom / 1228. GIBRALTAR: AE quarto (4.41g), 1813, KM-Tn5, four genii tending monument with ANGLIAE. SCOL ET HIB. payable at Richard Cattons, Goldsmith, EF $120 - 160 PROTECTOR inscribed and NAT. 3. APRIL. 1603. MORT. 3. SEPT. 1658. in exergue, struck on cast planchet, part of Dassier’s Kings and Queens of England series, F-VF $75 - 100 1229. GIBRALTAR: AE 2 quartos (8.34g), 1820, KM-Tn9, payable at James Spittle’s, choice EF-AU $150 - 200 1234. GREAT BRITAIN: Charles II, 1660-1685, AR crown, 1662, KM-417.2, Dav-3774var, ESC-340, Spink-3350B, scarcer variety with striped cloak, central obverse a bit softly struck, old-time toning, VF $500 - 600 1230. GREAT BRITAIN: Elizabeth I, 1558-1603, AR shilling, S-2555, 2nd series, mintmark cross-crosslet (1560-61), VF $80 - 100 1235. GREAT BRITAIN: Anne, 1702-1714, AR ½ crown, 1745/3, KM-584.3, Spink-3695, LIMA under bust, F-VF $125 - 175 1231. GREAT BRITAIN: James I, 1603-1625, AR shilling, S-2656, mintmarks grapes / lis (1607), flan-crack, VF $80 - 100 116 Stephen Album Rare Coins | Auction 26 | September 15-17, 2016 | Session D 1240. GREAT BRITAIN: George III, 1760-1820, AV 1/3 guinea (2.77g), 1806, S-3740, KM-650, tiny lamination flaw in obverse field, UNC $350 - 450 1236. GREAT BRITAIN: George I, 1714-1727, AR shilling, 1723, KM-539.3, SS C in angles, denoting silver sourced from the South Sea Company, NGC graded MS64 $250 - 350 1241. GREAT BRITAIN: George III, 1760-1820, AE 2 pence, 1797, S-3776, pleasing VF $100 - 125 1237. GREAT BRITAIN: George I, 1714-1727, white metal medal, 1722, cf. Eisler-7, 42mm, Duke of Marlborough Death Medal, 1722, struck in Geneva by Jean Dassier, IOHAN. CHURC. DUX MARLB. around bust of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, three-quarters, left, head nearly facing, hair long, in cravat, armor decorated with the head of Medusa and the star of the Garter, mantle, and riband across the breast / Victory, holding a laurel wreath and palm branch, standing, facing, VBI ADERAT IBI VICTORIA, date of death and age in exergue, EF $100 - 150 1242. GREAT BRITAIN: George III, 1760-1820, AE penny, 1797, S-3777, KM-618, struck at the Soho mint, NGC graded PF61 BR $500 - 600 1238. GREAT BRITAIN: George II, 1727-1760, AE medal (34.20g), ND (1731), part of Eimer-526, 41mm, high relief medal of Queen Anne by J. Dassier, part of a set of 34 medals of the 1243. GREAT BRITAIN: halfpenny token, 1795, D&H Middlesex 295, Kings and Queens of England, bust left with ANNA D.G.BR.FR. Thomas & Robert Davidson, female seated, holding sword and ET HIB.REGINA. around with I.D. under bust // coffin with shield bearing the arms of London, view of St Paul’s behind, SISE angels tending to cannon and flags, writing on tablet, and LANE HALFPENNY. around, 1795 in exergue, the point of the removing drapery from portrait, with NATA 6.FEBR.1665. / sword some distance from the E of LANE and the shield close to CORONAT.23.APR.1702. / MORT.1.AUG.1714. on coffin, tiny the legend / crown upon a triangle held by two hands, BR. flaws on cheek, AU $100 - 150 CONSTITUTION radiated in the centre of the triangle, KING. LORDS COMMONS. around, the cross of the crown touches the IN of KING, edge PAYABLE AT THE HOUSE OF T. & R. DAVIDSONS, minor spots, but with much original red luster, AU-UNC, R $100 - 150 1239. GREAT BRITAIN: George II, 1727-1760, AR medal, 1745, Eimer-600, 33mm, Carlisle Recaptured, Jacobite Rebels Retreat to Scotland, silver medal T. Pingo, bust right, GVLIELMVS DUX CVMBRIÆ / lion subdues a wolf, IVSTITIA TRIVMPHANS, in exergue MDCCXLV, VF $75 - 100 1244. GREAT BRITAIN: George IV, 1820-1830, AE penny, 1826, S-3823, plain saltire, traces of original luster, EF $120 - 160 117 World Coins 1245. GREAT BRITAIN: William IV, 1830-1837, AR fourpence, 1838, KM-723, NGC graded MS63 $150 - 200 1252. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR shilling, 1890, KM-774, NGC graded MS62+ $75 - 100 1246. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR 3 pence, 1868, S-3914C, deeply toned, NGC graded MS62 $100 - 150 1253. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR half crown, 1897, S-3938, KM-792, gold-violet toning, NGC graded MS66 $400 - 600 1247. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR florin, 1849, KM-745, so-called ‘Godless’ Gothic type, with WW initials, tiny obverse rim nick, attractive old-time toning, EF $250 - 300 1254. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR ½ crown, 1901, S-3938, choice AU $125 - 175 1248. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR florin, 1874, S-3893, KM-746.2, date mdccclxxiv, obverse die #56, NGC graded MS65 $600 - 700 1255. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE farthing, 1896, KM-788.1, Great Britain, NGC graded MS64 RD $150 - 225 1249. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE farthing, 1893, KM-753, NGC graded MS65 RD $175 - 250 1256. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE halfpenny, 1901, KM-789, NGC graded MS64 RD $100 - 125 1250. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR florin, 1887, KM-762, lovely toning, NGC graded MS63 $100 - 150 1257. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AE penny, 1901, KM-790, NGC graded MS64 RB $100 - 125 1251. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR ½ crown, 1887, S-3924, UNC $75 - 100 118 Stephen Album Rare Coins | Auction 26 | September 15-17, 2016 | Session D 1263. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AE penny, 1904, KM-794.2, NGC graded MS65 RD $275 - 350 1258. GREAT BRITAIN: Victoria, 1837-1901, AR medal (85.70g), 1897, Eimer-1825, 51mm, high-relief award medal by F. Bowcher, veiled head crowned bust left with VICTORIA BY THE GRACE OF GOD QVEEN & EMPRESS 1897 around with FB on truncation // NATIONAL / MEDAL FOR / SVCCESS IN ART / AWARDED BY THE / BOARD OF / EDVCATION within solid 1264. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AR sixpence, 1902, circle with laurel wreath around, edge: MARY d. BAXTER, KM-799, NGC graded MS64 $75 - 100 SUBJECT 8b2 1901, matte finish, toned, UNC $100 - 150 Photo size reduced. 1265. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AR shilling, 1902, KM-800, NGC graded MS62 $75 - 100 1259. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AE halfpenny, 1907, KM-793.2, NGC graded MS64 RD $100 - 125 1260. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AE halfpenny, 1907, KM-793.2, NGC graded MS64 RB $100 - 125 1266. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AR dollar, 1908-B, KM-T5, mintmark B within the trident, NGC graded MS64 $350 - 450 1261. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AE halfpenny, 1907, KM-793.2, NGC graded MS64 RB $100 - 125 1267. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AR medal, Queen’s 1262. GREAT BRITAIN: Edward VII, 1901-1910, AE penny, 1904, South Africa Medal issue 1899-1902, two campaign bars South KM-794.2, NGC graded MS63 RB $200 - 250 Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, with ribbon, awarded to PTE W. SLADE, GRENADIER GUARDS, EF $150 - 200 The Queen’s South Africa Medal is a British campaign medal which was awarded to British and Colonial military personnel, civilians employed in official capacity and war correspondents who served in the Second Boer War in South Africa. Altogether twenty-six clasps were awarded to recipients of the Queen’s South Africa Medal, to indicate particular actions and campaigns of the Second Boer War. 119 World Coins 1273. GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AR 6-coin proof set, 1927, KM-PS20, set includes: threepence KM-813a PF-66, sixpence KM-828 PF-65, shilling KM-833 PF-66, florin KM-834 PF-65, halfcrown KM-835 PF-66, crown KM-836 PF-66, all graded by NGC, a lovely well matched set! proof set of 6 coins $650 - 750 1268. GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AV 5 pounds, 1911, S-3994, mintage of just 2812 pieces, struck specifically for the coronation set, NGC graded PF62 CAM $8,000 - 10,000 Called 5 sovereigns on the slab, which is also correct for this denomination. 1274. GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AR medal, The British War Medal, 1914-18, awarded to PTE P.A. BURKE C.F.C. (Canadian Forestry Corps), lot includes silver minature medal of same, EF $75 - 100 The silver or bronze medal was awarded to officers and men of the British and Imperial Forces who either entered a theatre of war or 1269. GREAT BRITAIN: George V, 1910-1936, AE penny, 1913, entered service overseas between 5th August 1914 and 11th KM-810, NGC graded MS63 RB $125 - 150 November 1918 inclusive. The Canadian Forestry Corps (Corps forestier canadien) was an administrative corps of the Canadian Army with its own cap badge, and other insignia and traditions. The C.F.C. was created 14 November 1916. 1275. GREAT BRITAIN: George VI, 1936-1952, 4-coin Maundy set, 1943, S-4086, 1, 2, 3, and 4 pence, all uncirculated $100 - 125 1270.
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