ANCIENT COINS GREEK

1 Sicily, Syracuse, Heiron II, AE units (5), (274- 216 BC), bust of Poseidon facing left, rev. vertical trident with inscriptions. (SNG Ans. 987), good to 7 Indo-Scythian, Vonones, with Spalahores (c.75-65 very fine (5) £80-120 BC), silver tetradrachm, king on horseback right, holding spear and whip, rev. Zeus Keraunophoros 2 Carthaginian Domain, Sardinia, (300-264 BC), standing slightly left, holding thunderbolt and bronze, head of Tanit left, rev. horse’s head right, sceptre, monogram on right, wt. 9.66gms, 11h annulet below mouth, wt. 4.7gms, (Piras 19; SNG (Senior 65.3T); Spalirises, with Azes (c.60-58 BC), Copenhagen (Africa) 154-5), very fine £75-100 silver drachm, king on horseback right, holding spear, rev. Zeus Keraunophoros standing slightly left, monogram on left, wt. 8.23gms. 12h (Senior 74.1D var (monogram)), second with some light porosity, both very fine (2) £100-150 ROMAN 3 Kingdom of Macedon, Alexander III, The Great (336-323 BC), small bronze (SNG Alpha Bank 835), Mint of Rome unless otherwise stated very fine £20-30

4 Siculo-Punic AEs (6), possibly struck in Carthage (375-350 BC), an interesting study group (6) £50-70

8 Roman Republic, Anonymous (after 211 BC), Æ As, laureate Janus head, I above, rev. prow right, I above, ROMA below, wt. 38.09gms, 6h (Cr 56/2; Syd 143; RBW 200), dark green patina, about very fine £80-120

Image Reduced 5 Nabataea, miscellaneous Æ issues (22), mostly of Aretas IV (AD 9-40), mainly fine to very fine (22) £300-400

9 Julius Caesar, Silver Denarius, travelling mint, Image Reduced 49 BC, elephant right, trampling on dragon, 6 South Arabia, Sabaean (2nd to 3rd Century AD), rev. pontifical emblems (Cr 443/1); with other silver units (4), Bucranium series; Himyarite (2nd Republican issues (4), including D. Iunius Silanus, Century BC), silver units (18), good very fine to Q. Antonius Balbus, M. Volteius, first good very fine, extremely fine (22) £450-600 the others about very fine (5) £650-750

10 Hadrian (117-138), AE Sestertii (6), Rome mint, reverses include Mauretania, Concordia and Felicitas, mixed grades from good to very fine (6) £100-120

11 Gordian III (AD 238-244), silver antoninianus, Rome, (AD 243-244), rev. Fortuna (RIC.144); Philip I (AD 244-249), silver antoninianus, Rome, (AD 244-247), rev. Laetitia (RIC.36b); Otacilia Severa, wife of Philip I, silver antoninianus, Rome, (AD 15 Valerian I, Antoniniani (6), mint of Samosata, 246-248), rev. Concordia (RIC.125c); Philip II as Valerian & Gallienus (2) (RIC.284, 285; MIR 1676e, Caesar (AD 246-248), silver antoninianus, Rome, 1684e), Orient and Valerian (2) (RIC.286, 287; MIR rev. Philip II standing left (RIC 219), good very fine to 1677e, 1685e), Valerian & Gallienus (RIC 293; MIR extremely fine(4) £100-120 1687e), victories (RIC.295; MIR 1688e), good very fine to extremely fine (6) £80-100 12 Roman Empire, AR Antoniniani (30), Rome mint, various emperors including Trajan Decius, Herennius Etruscus, Trebonianus Gallus and Volusian, various reverses, fine to very fine (30) £250-300

16 Gallienus (AD 253-268), Antoniniani (14), clasped hands (RIC.131; MIR 13t), Concordia (RIC.132; MIR 15v), Pax (RIC.155; MIR 27t), Virtus (3) (RIC.181; MIR 38t, 38v (2)), Laetitia (RIC.144; MIR 13 Valerian I (AD 253-260), Antoniniani (2), mint 46v), Providentia (RIC.158; MIR 51v), Libertas of Milan, Securitas (RIC.25b; MIR 919a, 919b, (RIC.148; MIR 66q), Virtus (RIC.182; MIR 83q), the first small bust); Gallienus (AD 253-268), Concordia (RIC.132 var; MIR 92q), Providentia (2) Antoniniani (2), mint of Milan, Victory (RIC.405; (RIC.159; MIR 101q), Apollo (RIC.126 var; MIR MIR 921h, MIR 921l); Salonina (wife of Gallienus), 125k), very fine to extremely fine (14) £200-250 Antoninianus, mint of Milan (RIC.57; MIR 935t); *first ex Duke of Argyll collection Saloninus (AD 259), Antoniniani (2), mint of MIR 27t, MIR 38t, one MIR 38v, MIR 46v, MIR 66q and one Milan, emperor (RIC 10; MIR 939z, 940y), very fine MIR 101q all ex Chalfont St Peter hoard and better (7) £100-150

14 Valerian I, Antoniniani (5), mint of Antioch, Victory (RIC.223; MIR 1565a), Laetitia (RIC.215; MIR 1570a), Roma (RIC.221; MIR 1580b), Virtus (RIC.227; MIR 1584b), Valerian & Gallienus (RIC.277; MIR 1598a); Salonina (wife of Gallienus), 17 Gallienus, Antoniniani (5), Indulgentia (RIC 205; Antoninianus, mint of Antioch, Concordia (RIC MIR 541g), Fortuna (2) (RIC 194a; MIR 546g, 246n), -; MIR 1567g); Valerian II (Caesar, AD 253-255), Felicitas (RIC 192; MIR 547g), Pax (RIC 260; MIR Antoniniani (2), mint of Antioch, emperor (RIC 553n); Salonina (wife of Gallienus), Antoniniani (2), 51; MIR 1597d), victory and emperor (RIC 53; Concordia (RIC 2 var; MIR 544p), Pudicitia (RIC 25; MIR 1603d), about very fine and better (8) £100-150 MIR 551p), good very fine to extremely fine (7) £100-150

18 Gallienus, Antoniniani (12), Abundantia (2) (RIC.157 var; MIR 573w, 574w), Uberitas (2) 22 Gallienus, Antoniniani (7), mint of Cologne, Jupiter (RIC.287 var; MIR 582a, 582w), Securitas (RIC.280 (RIC.23; MIR 870l), eagle and standards (RIC.13; var; MIR 591w), Securitas (RIC.280; MIR 595a), MIR 871f), trophy and captives (RIC.18; MIR 872d), Fides (RIC.192a; MIR 599a), emperor (RIC.171a; Victory on globe, captives on either side (2) (RIC.49; MIR 647a), Abundantia (RIC.157 var; MIR 660q¹), MIR 874l, 874m), Mars within temple (RIC.10; MIR Fortuna (RIC.193v var; MIR 667w²), Pax (RIC.254; 889j), Emperor and figure of Gaul (RIC 27; MIR MIR 678w²), panther (RIC.230; MIR 713b); 879d), very fine to extremely fine (7) £150-200 *MIR 870l and MIR 874m both ex Chalfont St Peter hoard Salonina (wife of Gallienus), Antoniniani (3), last ex Duke of Argyll collection Fecunditas (RIC.5 var, 5a; MIR 579aa, 580aa, 662s), very fine to extremely fine (15) £200-250 *MIR 660q¹, MIR 667w² and MIR 579aa all ex Normanby hoard.

19 Gallienus, Antoninianus, mint of Milan, GALLIENVS AVG, radiate and cuirassed bust facing right, rev. LEG IIXX VII P VII F, Capricorn 23 Gallienus, Antoniniani (6), mint of Cologne, eagle right, wt. 2.53gms, 6h (RIC 363; MIR 1023h), slight and standards (RIC 11; MIR 871a), trophy and bend in flan, very fine, scarce £50-100 captives (RIC 18; MIR 872m), Victory on globe, captives on either side (RIC 49; MIR 874l), Mars (RIC 8; MIR 888j), emperor trampling captive (RIC 54; MIR 890j), Victory (RIC 44; MIR 893h), fine to nearly extremely fine (6) £80-100 *MIR 872m, MIR 874l and MIR 888j all ex Market Deeping, Lincs hoard (1980), CHRB IV, p.49 20 Gallienus, Antoniniani (10), mint of Milan, Aequitas (RIC 464v var; MIR 1084y), Providentia (RIC 510 var; MIR 1086i), Laetitia (3) (RIC 489, 24 Gallienus, billon antoninianus, mint of Cologne, 489 var, 341a; MIR 1095h, 1095k, 1096aa), Sol (RIC AD 257-258, GALLIENVS P F AVG, radiate and 495; MIR 1126m) Mars (RIC 534; MIR 1147aa), cuirassed bust right, rev. GERMANICVS MAX Virtus (2) (RIC 534 var, 534; MIR 1148aa, 1150k); V, trophy between two captives, wt. 4.22gms, 12h Apollo (RIC 467; MIR 1169m), very fine to extremely (RIC.18; RCV 10224); Crispus (Caesar, AD 317- fine (10) £150-200 326), Æ Follis, mint of Treveri, AD 322-323, IVL *MIR 1147aa ex Normanby hoard, 412. CRISPVS NOB CAES, laureate and cuirassed bust left, rev. BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, globe set on altar inscribed VO / TIS / XX, wt. 3.36gms, 6h (RIC.372) first good very fine, second with light crack in flan, extremely fine(2) £40-50

25 Gallienus, antoniniani (10), mint of Antioch, , Antoniniani (8), mint of Milan, emperor 21 Gallienus Aeternitas (RIC.294 var; MIR 1559d), Jupiter (RIC.460; MIR 1236Af), Felicitas (2) (RIC.474; (RIC.294; MIR 1562d), Pietas (RIC.295; MIR MIR 1255i), Pietas (RIC.507; MIR 1263f), Salus 1563d), emperor (RIC.296; MIR 1564d), Victory (RIC.511b var; MIR 1286h), Pietas (RIC.507; (RIC.299 var; MIR 1565d), Felicitas (RIC.291; MIR 1315d), emperor (RIC.457 var; MIR 1338d), MIR 1569d), Libertas (RIC.443; MIR 1589b), Securitas (RIC.513; MIR 1372a), very fine to about Laetitia (RIC.442; MIR 1600b), Libertas (RIC.444; extremely fine (8) £100-150 *MIR 1236Af, one MIR 1255i, MIR 1286h, MIR 1315d and MIR 1601b), Victory and emperor (RIC.452; MIR MIR 1372a all ex Normanby hoard. 1603b), very fine to extremely fine (10) £150-200

26 Gallienus, antoniniani (9), mint of Antioch, legend in wreath (RIC.659 var; MIR 1609b), Aequitas (RIC.627; MIR 1610i), Sol (RIC.629 var; MIR 1611b), Aeternitas (RIC.629; MIR 1611e), Jupiter (2) (RIC.644 corr, 645 var; MIR 1612e, 1612i), Victory (2) (RIC.662, 663; MIR 1615e, 1615g), Virtus (RIC.668; MIR 1617i); 31 Salonina (wife of Gallienus), antoninianus, mint Salonina (wife of Gallienus), Antoniniani (2), mint of of Viminacium, Pietas (RIC -; MIR 853b); Valerian Antioch, Juno (RIC.95; MIR 1619k, 1619m), very fine to (Caesar, AD 253-255), Antoninianus, mint of extremely fine (11) £180-200 Viminacium, priestly emblems (RIC.19; MIR 864b), both good very fine (2) £40-50

27 Gallienus, antoniniani (6), mint of Antioch, Fortuna (RIC.613; MIR 1640b), emperor holding Victory (RIC.615; MIR 1641a), Aesculapius (RIC.632; MIR 1649g), Aeternitas (RIC.606 var; MIR 1662a), Virtus (RIC.612; MIR 1666i), Salus (RIC.610; MIR 1670k); Salonina (wife of Gallienus), Antoniniani (2), mint of

Antioch, Aequitas (RIC.87; MIR 1648d), Salus (RIC.88; MIR 1656h), good very fine to extremely fine (8) £100-150

28 Gallienus, antoniniani (4), mint of Samosata, Victories (RIC.459; MIR 1682m), Valerian & Gallienus (3) (RIC.447 (2), 456; MIR 1684m, 1687m, 1699m), good very fine to extremely fine (4) £60-80 32 Salonina (wife of Gallienus), antoniniani (3), mint of Samosata, emperor and empress (2) (RIC.63, 63 var; MIR 1691p, 1706Ac), emperor and Roma (RIC.67; MIR 1701o); Valerian II (Caesar, AD 253-255), Antoninianus, mint of Samosata, Spes (RIC.52; MIR 1695b); Saloninus (AD 259), Antoniniani (2), mint of Samosata, emperor and

Spes (RIC.36; MIR 1707e, 1707u), good very fine to 29 Gallienus, silver denarius, laureate head facing right, extremely fine (6) £100-120 rev. ORIENS AVG, Sol advancing left, raising hand and holding a whip, wt. 1.85gms, 12h (RIC 254 var; MIR 682t), crack in flan, good very fine, scarce £80-100

30 Salonina (wife of Gallienus), antoniniani (6), mint of Milan, Venus (RIC.66; MIR 1237a), Felicitas (RIC.61; MIR 1302r), Pax (RIC.58; MIR 1305r), Pietas (2) (RIC -, 22/78; MIR 1308r, 1311r), Pax (RIC.57 var; MIR 33 Marius (AD 269), AE antoniniani (2), Trier mint. 1378e), very fine to nearly extremely fine (6) £100-120 (RIC V, 7) (Clasped Hands) and (RIC V, 10) *MIR 1237a, MIR 1311r and MIR 1378e all ex Normanby hoard (Felicitas), fine. scarce (2) £120-150 34 Tetrarchic Folles, including issues of Diocletian, BYZANTINE Maximian, Galerius and Constantius I, residual silvering, very fine and better (10) £200-250 Mint of Constantinople unless otherwise stated

35 Fausta (wife of Constantine the Great), Æ follis, 42 Arcadius (AD 383-408), AR siliquae (5), Milan mint of Cyzicus, struck (AD 326-327), draped bust mint, diademed bust of emperor facing right, DN facing right, rev. Fausta standing, holding two children, ARCADIVS P F AVG. rev.: Roma seated left on cuirass, SMKB• in exergue, wt. 2.73gms, 12h (RIC 40), attractive VIRTVS ROMAORVM, good/fine, corroded (5) £50-75 dark green patina, good very fine £70-100 *ex Holway Hoard

36 Delmatius (336-337), AE folles (3), various mints. Laureate bust of Delmatius facing right, rev. two soldiers holding two standards, GLORIA EXERCITVS, fine, scarce (3) £80-100

43 Constantine IV (AD 668-685), silver hexagram, facing bust of emperor, wearing plumed helmet and cuirass, holding spear and shield, rev. fragmentary legend, cross potent on globus above two steps, flanked by standing figures of Heraclius and Tiberius, wt.6.41gms. (S 1170), about good very fine £180-250

44 Principality of Antioch, tancred, regent (c. AD 1104-1112), Æ Follis (3), bearded bust of Tancred, holding raised sword over shoulder, rev. large cross with IC-XC and NI-KA in angles (Metcalf, RNS 1995, 63/70), one good fine, one fine, one fair, each overstruck 37 4th Century Folles, comprising issues of on Bohemond I (Metcalf 49/62) (3) £40-60 Constantius II (AD 337-361); Constans (AD 337- 350), including a Follis brockage of Constantine I (AD 307-337), bust right, wearing a crested helmet, generally very fine or nearly so (6) £60-80

38 Julian II (360-363), AE folles (4), Thessalonica (2) and Antioch (2), diademed bust of Julian facing right, DN IVLIANVS P F AVG, rev. bull standing right, SECVRITAS PVB, good (4) £50-70

39 Roman Provincial, AR tetradrachms (6), Antioch and Alexandria mints, emperors include Nero, Philip the Arab, and Elagabalus, fine to good very fine (6) £100-120

40 Roman Empire, AE sestertii (9), various emperors, 45 Principality of Antioch, tancred, regent (c.AD empresses and reverses, Antoninus Pius, Marcus 1104-1112), Æ follis, nimbate bust of Christ, Aurelius, Commodus, Diva Faustina, Faustina Jr, holding book of Gospels, between IC-XC, rev. large Lucilla, Philip I, Herennia Etruscilla, Trajan Decius, cross with TA-NK and P-H in angles (Metcalf, RNS mixed grades (9) £50-60 1995, 81-5); Roger of Salerno (c. AD 1112-1119), Æ follis, standing figure of Christ nimbate, hand 41 Miscellaneous ancient coins, 2nd century BC to raised in benediction, rev. large cross with DN-SAI 4th century AD, in silver (1) and bronze (12), mixed and FT-RO in angles (Metcalf, RNS 1995, 86/88), grades (13) £40-50 both good fine, second rare (2) £60-80

46 Miscellaneous Byzantine Æ Coins, comprising Maurice, Folles, Nicomedia (2), Cyzicus (2); Focas, 50 Arab Sasanian, Talha b. ‘Abd Allah (c.64-66h), Deka, Catania; Heraclius, Folles, Nicomedia (3), silver drachm, SK = Sistan 64, obv margin: Talha Thessalonika (S 825); ½-Follis, Nicomedia (1), lillah, wt. 2.80gms. (Walker p.95:191; A 26), edge Deka, Constantinople (1), fair to fine (11) £40-60 chipped, fine and very rare £120-180

47 Billon Unit, in imitation of a Byzantine Miliaresion of Basil II and Constantine VIII (976-1025), cross on steps, bust either side, rev. pattern of squares in imitation of legend, wt. 0.92gms, very fine, small flan, 51 Arab Sasanian, ‘Abd Allah b. Umayya (c.74-77h), slight chips, rare £200-250 silver drachm, SK = Sistan 7(6?), obv margin: ‘izza lillah, wt. 3.29gms. (Walker -; A 30), good very fine and very rare £200-250 ISLAMIC COINS

48 Arab Sasanian, ‘Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr (60-73h), 52 Arab Sasanian, ‘Ubayd Allah b. Abi Bakra (79-80h), silver drachm, KRMAN-NAWGY (mint of Jiruft?) silver drachm, SK = Sistan 80h, wt. 3.22gms. (Album 67, wt. 3.64gms. (Walker p.35: 48; A 16), edge chipped, Checklist 37), about very fine and rare £120-180 very fine and very rare £200-250

53 Arab Sasanian, Tamim b. Sa‘id (166-170h), 49 Arab Sasanian, Salm b. Ziyad (c.61-67h), silver silver drachm, SK = Sistan, undated (c.166- drachm, HRA = Herat 67h, wt. 3.94gms. (Walker 170h), wt. 3.19gms. (A 89), edge clipped, very fine p.76:115; A 18), good very fine and rare £150-200 and very rare £350-450

54 Arab Sasanian, Eastern Sistan, Salih Rida, silver drachm, (SK = Sijistan), undated, wt. 2.91gms. (A 89D), good very fine and rare £80-120

59 Abbasid, Abbasid Revolutionary, ruler uncertain, fals, mint and date illegible, wt. 2.33gms, good; Abbasid Tabaristan, ‘Umar (b. al-A‘la), silver copper core Hemidrachm, TIPURSTAN 129 = 164h, wt. 55 Arab Sasanian, al-Layth? b. al-Fadl (200-204h), 1.73gms. (Walker p.139:275, mint counterfeit), good silver drachm, mint and date blundered (c.200- fine; Tahirid, Talha b. Tahir, Fals, mint illegible but 204h), countermark ja’iz, wt. 3.72gms. (A B90), Bust 209h, wt. 2.36gms, about fine (3) £80-120 pierced, good fine and rare £150-200

56 Umayyad, temp. al-Walid I, silver dirham, Mahay 92h, wt. 2.71gms. (Klat 558a), very fine, rare £75-100

60 Abbasid, temp. Harun al-Rashid, silver dirham, al- Muhammadiya 180h, citing al-Amin, the Governor Muh’d b. Yahya and Ja’far, wt. 2.91gms (Lowick 1736, one reference; A 219.91), good very fine, rare £100-120

57 Umayyad, temp. al-Walid I, silver dirham, Hamadhan 93h, wt. 2.60gms. (Klat 670), slightly 61 Abbasid, temp. Harun al-Rashid, Æ Fals (2), clipped, very fine, rare £80-120 Madinat Balkh 182h, wt. 4.04gms; wt. 3.01gms. (Lowick 783; SNAT Balkh 488-491); Banijurid, Muhammad b. Ahmad (260-285h), silver dirham, Tayiqan 284h, wt. 4.12gms. (A 1433), first two good fine, last very fine, all rare (3) £100-120

62 Abbasid, temp. Harun al-Rashid, Æ Fals, Balkh 187h, wt. 2.41gms (Lowick 784; A 319 var); ‘Isa, Balkh 187h, wt. 3.82gms. (Lowick 784; SNAT Balkh 511-513), first 58 Umayyad, temp. al-Walid I, Æ fals (cast fabric, “360 fine, the second very fine, both rare (2) £75-100 to a Dirham”), Balkh 93h, wt. 3.44gms. (Tübingen Sylloge Numorum Arabicorum Tübingen (SNAT) Balkh 450-454; A A197), crude, largely illegible, but full 63 Abbasid, temp. al-Hadi, silver dirham, al- flan and thus very fine £120-180 Muhammadiya, 170h (A 217), very fine £50-70 64 Abbasid, al-Mu’tasim, silver dirham, Madinat al- Salam 220h, wt. 2.92gm (A 226), good very fine £100-120 69 Saffarid (Second Dynasty), Khalaf b. Ahmad (third reign, 370-393h), gold ¼-dinar, Siistan 65 Abbasid, al-Wathiq, silver dirham, Samarqand, (3)7?1h, wt. 1.11gms (A 1420.1), extremely fine and 227h (A 228), good very fine, scarce £75-100 scarce £80-120

70 Saffarid (Second Dynasty), Khazar imitation of 66 Abbasid, al-Qahir (320-322h), silver dirham (2), a Samanid dirham, Nasr II b. Ahmad, al-Muqtadir, Surra Man Ra’a, 321h, Shiraz, 322h, both with heir silver dirham, “Ma‘din 303h”, wt. 2.37gms. (A Abu’l Qasim (A 251.1), both very fine (2) £800-120 Q1481); Saffarid (Third Dynasty), Rukn al-din abu- Mansur b. Bahramshah (618-619h), Jital, no mint, 67 Abbasid, al-Muttaqi (329-333h), silver dirham, undated, wt. 3.83gms. (A 1430), first very fine, second Madinat al-Salam, 329h, citing Bajkam (A A258), partly flat, good fine, both rare(2) £80-120 good fine, scarce £75-100

71 Ziyarid, Mardawij b. Ziyar (315-323h), gold dinars (2), al-Karaj 322h, wt. 3.05gms, and Mah al-Basra 322h, wt. 3.55gms, both about fine, first rare (2) £250-350 68 Abbasid, al-Mustakfi (333-334h), silver dirham (2), Madinat al-Salam, 334h, al-Kufa, 334h, both citing Abu’l Hasan Muhammad (A 263), both very 72 Buwayhid, Sultan al-Dawla, silver dirham, Shiraz fine, scarce(2) £120-180 406h (A 1581), very fine, scarce £100-120 73 Ghurid / Mamluk, Anonymous, billon jital, no mint undated, wt. 2.59gms. (SNAT XIVd, no. 586), very fine and rare £80-120

79 Barakzay of Afghanistan, temp. ‘Abd al-Rahman (1297-1319h), bronze 100-dinars or 10-mithqals, Dar al-Saltinat Kabul 1311h, wt. 44.80gms. (KM 809), mount expertly removed, crude, about very fine and very rare £180-200

80 Qajar Shahs of Iran, Muzaffar al-din, gold fifth toman/2,000 dinars, Tihran 1323h, wt. 0.57gms. (KM.A34a), extremely fine £200-300 74 Arturkids, of Mardin, Alpi (547-572h), Æ dirhams (2), no mint or date, diademed bust right, rev. text; and two male heads facing, rev. female head facing (SS 27, 30; A 1827.2, 1827.5), both very fine (2) £100-120

75 Arturkids, of Mardin, Alpi (547-572h), copper dirham (7), no mint or date, citing the caliph al- Mustanjid, two male busts facing, rev. female bust 81 Gold Muslim Token, obv. somewhat crudely engraved with curly hair facing (SS. 30.1; A.1827.5; M.1030), Shahada and four Rashidun, rev. mosque, wt. 11.16gms good very fine (7) £300-400 (M 445 var), good very fine and rare £400-500

76 Abdul Hamid I (1187-1203h), Zeri Mahbub, Misr 1187h, wt. 2.56gms (KM 127), slight flan split, 82 Saudi Arabia (& Hejaz), a collection of coins in very fine £80-100 silver (8) and base metal (33), 1327-78h/AD.1909-58, mostly different (KM.2.1 (local copy?)/A3/4-9/13- 17/18 (3)/19.1/19.2/20.1/20.2/21.1/21.2/22- 27/29/31/33/37-39/40 [2]/41 [2]/42 [2]), very fine to uncirculated (41) £400-500

77 Qajar Shahs of Iran, Nasir al-din Shah (1264- 1313h), gold double toman/20,000 dinars, Tihran 1264/1299h, wt. 5.75gms. (KM.Y19), about extremely fine, rare £400-500

78 Nasir al-din Shah, Qiran, Tehran 1310h, obv legend 83 Dynasty uncertain, glass double dirham and with sahibqiran, crown above, wt. 4.81gms (KM 901), dirham weights (2), wt. 5.89gms; wt. 2.99gms, about very fine, rare £60-80 very fine £100-120 BRITISH COINS

84 Celtic, the Cantiaci. AE potins (10), (130-100 BC), stylised head facing left, rev: stylised bull. (VA 131.1), good to good very fine (10) £120-150 89 James I, silver sixpences (2), second coinage (1604- 1619), 1605, third crowned bust right, initial mark 85 Celtic, Gallo-Belgic import D, Ambiani or Morini, lis (1604-1605), 1613, fourth crowned bust right, quarter stater, ‘deities in a sun-boat’ design, rev. tree- initial mark trefoil (1613), rev. quartered shield of like object, lines to left and right, zig-zag line below, arms, date above (N 2102, 2103; S 2657, 2658), wt. 1.14gms. (ABC.40 and fig. 29; VA.69-1; S.10), weak in parts, good fine(2) £100-120 very fine £120-150 90 James I, silver sixpence, second coinage, 4th bust, 1611, mm mullet (S 2658); together with miscellaneous silver hammered coins (12), mostly Elizabeth I to Charles I, the first good fine, others mainly fair (13) £200-300

86 Celtic, Gallo-Belgic import D, Ambiani or Morini, quarter stater, ‘deities in a sun-boat’ design, rev. tree- like object, lines to left and right, zig-zag line below, wt. 1.45gms. (ABC.40 and fig. 29; VA.69-1; S.10), weakly struck on obverse, fine / very fine £80-120

87 Edward VI, shilling, mm tun, crowned and facing bust, rev. quartered shield of arms (N 1937; S 2482), good fine and toned £70-100 91 James I, silver sixpences (2), second coinage (1604- 1619), 1613, fourth crowned bust right, initial mark trefoil (1613), third coinage (1619-1625), 1621, sixth crowned bust right, initial mark rose (1620-1621), rev. quartered shield of arms, date above (N 2103, 2126; S 2658, 2670), first with small flan split, second with some weakness in legends, both good fine (2) £80-100

88 Edward VI, silver penny, third period, base issue 92 James I, silver half-groat, first coinage (1603-1604), (1551), York mint, Tudor rose within beaded circle, crowned bust right, beaded circles and legend initial mark mullet, rev. long cross fourchée over surrounding, initial mark thistle both sides, rev. quartered shield, wt. 0.58gms. (N 1946; S 2475), quartered shield of arms, wt. 0.98gms. (N 2076; S nearly very fine, toned £70-80 2649), ragged edge, good very fine, toned £50-60

93 James I, silver half-groat, second coinage (1604- 1619), smaller crowned rose, initial mark trefoil (1613) both sides, rev. crowned thistle, wt. 0.93gms. 99 James II, “Gunmoney” shilling, May 1690, small (N 2105/1; S 2660), weak in parts, otherwise very fine, size, laur. head l., rev. crown over sceptres dividing JR, attractively toned £70-80 XII above, month of issue below (DF 438; S.6582D), certified and graded by PCGS as AU 58 £100-140

100 William and Mary, halfpenny, 1694, conjoined busts r., rev. Britannia (S.3452), obverse very fine, reverse lightly pitted £60-80 94 James I, silver penny, second coinage (1604-1619), rose, initial mark lis (1604-1605) both sides, rev. thistle, wt. 0.51gms. (cf N 2106/1; S 2661), weakly struck in parts, otherwise very fine, toned £40-60

95 Charles I, silver half-groat, Tower mint, initial 101 William III, silver crown, first bust, 1696, Octavo mark lis (1625), group A, crowned rose both sides, (S 3470), good fine £60-80 wt. 1.08gms. (Brooker 658; N 2248; S 2822), weakly struck in one corresponding part each side, otherwise very 102 George I, copper halfpenny with unofficial fine, toned £70-80 countermark IW within rectangle on reverse; George II, copper halfpenny (3), with unofficial countermarks, T, TB and TG within serrated borders, most coins fair, countermarks fine to very fine (4) £120-150

103 George III, gold guinea, 1775, small ring mount and solder damage to obverse; third-guinea, 1798, fine but bent (2) £220-280

96 Charles I, silver half-groat (2), Tower mint, type 1, crowned rose each side, initial mark cross (over lis on obverse), type 3a1, fourth bust, no inner circles, initial mark tun (S 2822, 2831), first very fine, second good fine, both toned (2) £70-80

97 Charles II to George VI, silver crowns (22), mostly fair to fine, a few better (22) £500-700

98 Charles II, silver pattern farthing, 1665, short hair, straight grained edge, obv. 1b + reverse A (Peck 104 George III, gold quarter guinea, 1762 (S 3741), 414), fine and scarce £60-100 water worn, good fine £200-250 109 George III, copper ‘cartwheel’ twopence 1797, (2) draped bust right, rev. Britannia seated left holding olive branch and trident (S.3776), both good very fine £60-80

110 George III, a copper electrotype impression of the obverse of the undated pattern crown, by Webb and Mills, for Mudie, laureate head r., signed with 105 George III, silver shilling, 1787, with semée of hearts, initials below, GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA, beaded laureate and draped bust right, rev. crowned cruciform border, 36.5mm (cf ESC [Bull] 2055; cf ESC 221; shields, semée of hearts in Hanoverian shield, crowns cf L&S 214), extremely fine £100-150 in angles, no stops at date, edge grained (ESC 1225; S 3746), dark tone with underlying lustre, light scratches by chin By nature of its manufacture, this cannot have been on obverse, very fine £70-80 made earlier than the mid 1840’s.

111 George IV, halfpenny, 1827 (S. 3824), virtually mint state with hints of original colour and lustre £100-140

112 George IV, copper third of a farthing, 1827 (S.3827), uncirculated with lustre £100-150

106 George III, Bank of England, dollar, 1804, laur. bust r., rev. Britannia seated within crowned Garter, no stop after REX or CHK (S.3768; ESC 148), good 113 Victoria, sovereign, 1886S, WW in relief, young head very fine but has been cleaned £180-220 l., rev. crowned shield of arms within wreath, S below (S.3855B), good very fine, reverse better £250-300

114 Victoria, sovereign, 1883M, horse with short tail, no BP in exergue, young head l., M below, rev. St. George and the dragon (S.3857A), extremely fine or better £250-300

107 George III, halfpenny, 1771, laur. and cuir. bust r., rev. Britannia std. l., with shield and spear (S.3774), certified and graded by PCGS as Genuine, Tooled - Uncirculated Details; George IV, farthing, 1822, laur. head l., rev. Britannia std. r., with shield and trident (S.3822), has been flattened, making the flan appear larger,

nearly very fine (2) £40-50 115 Victoria, young head crown, 1847, yr XI, cinquefoil 108 George III, ‘cartwheel’ twopence, 1797 (BMC 1077; stops (Bull 2567; ESC 286; S 3882), lightly cleaned, S. 3776), very fine, slight bruising to edge £60-70 minor edge marks, good very fine £200-300 116 Victoria, gold sovereign, 1893M, Jubilee head; half- sovereign, 1901, old head, both fine (2) £300-340

117 Victoria, half sovereign, 1887, ‘Jubilee’ bust

l., rev. crowned shield of arms (S.3869), about uncirculated £125-150 123 Victoria, half sovereign, 1901, veiled bust l., rev. St. George and the dragon (S.3878), fine or better £100-120 118 Victoria, Jubilee coinage, gold half-sovereign, 1887, good very fine; George V, half-sovereigns (2), 1911, 1913, very fine and better (3) £320-360

119 Victoria, Jubilee 1887, a type set of coins comprising gold sovereign and half-sovereign; silver crown to threepence, including double-florin, an attractive set, extremely fine and better (9) £400-500

124 Victoria, silver crown, 1845, cinquefoil stops (S. 3882), good very fine £150-200

120 Victoria, sovereign, 1899P, veiled bust l., rev. St. George and the dragon, P above date (S.3876), almost extremely fine, reverse better £300-350

121 Victoria, sovereign, 1899P, veiled bust l., rev. St. George and the dragon, P above date (S.3876), good fine £200-250 125 Victoria, ‘gothic’ crown, 1847, edge undecimo (ESC 2571; S. 3883), side-pierced left and right, scuffed and jeweller’s graffiti (13 – 10) by neck, very fine £500-600

126 Victoria, Jubilee 1887, a type set of silver coins

comprising silver crown to shilling, including double-florin, extremely fine and better; a second crown, 1887, very fine (6) £120-160

127 Victoria, Jubilee 1887, a partial type set of silver coins 122 Victoria, sovereign, 1900, old head, certified and graded comprising silver crown, double-florin, halfcrown and by NGC as MS 62; George V, sovereign, 1915S, certified florin extremely fine to uncirculated, mostly toned and proof- and graded by PCGS as MS 63 (2) £360-420 like bloom to obverse of double-florin (4) £100-150 133 Victoria, florin, 1897 (H Z28; KM 6), bright, choice extremely fine £120-150

128 Victoria, Jubilee 1887, proof crown (S. 3921), 134 Victoria, copper penny, 1858, young head, no somewhat impaired, lightly cleaned and scuffed but WW (S 3948; P 1518); together with miscellaneous extremely fine £250-350 milled British base metal coins and tokens (84), mainly copper, including contemporary copies of George III halfpennies, the first with residual lustre, extremely fine, others fair to very fine (85) £250-350

129 Victoria, silver shillings (3), 1887, 1889, 1890, Jubilee head left, J.E.B. on truncation, rev. crowned , copper farthings (3), 1858, young head shield within garter, edge milled (ESC 1351, 1355, 135 Victoria left, rev. Britannia (P 1586; S 3950), lustrous, some 1357; S 3926, 3927), first with a colourful tone, good handling marks, otherwise uncirculated (3) £120-180 very fine, second extremely fine, last with uneven dark tone, extremely fine(3) £70-80

130 Victoria, Jubilee coinage, silver threepence, 1893 (S. 3931), very fine £60-80 136 Victoria, copper third of a farthing, 1844, large G’s in 131 Victoria, silver crown, 1887, double florin, 1887, REG (S.3952), uncirculated with much lustre £150-200 Arabic 1, 1889, halfcrown, 1887 (Bull 2585, 2697, 2701, 2771; ESC 296, 395, 398, 719; S 3921, 3923 (2), 3924), attractive tone, almost uncirculated to 137 Victoria, bronze penny (2), 1883, 1888, toothed uncirculated (4) £150-250 border both sides, “bun” head left, no curls at nape of neck, wreath of 15 leaves, rev. Britannia, single strand terminal to helmet plume (Fr 118 dies 12+N, 132 Victoria, florin, 1897, old head (S. 3939),certified and 126 dies 12+N; S 3954), both extremely fine, toned, some graded by PCGS as MS 64 £60-80 lustre, first with weaker strike on reverse(2) £60-80 138 Victoria, pennies (2), 1887; 1892, toothed border, young bust l., rev. Britannia std. r., with shield and trident (S.3954), extremely fine or better, original lustre £80-100

139 Victoria, bronze penny, 1893 over 2, Gouby BP1893B; (S.3954), uncirculated with lustre, rare variety £300-400

143 Victoria, bronze halfpenny, 1893, young bust left, rev. Britannia left (P 1852; S 3956) certified and graded by PCGS as MS64RD £180-200

140 Victoria, bronze halfpenny, 1861, laureate “bun” head left, wreath of 16 leaves and 4 berries, rev. Britannia, incuse lines on breastplate (Fr 268A dies 7+D R19; S , bronze farthing, 1895, bun head, 3956), good extremely fine, some lustre, more on the reverse, and 144 Victoria rev., Britannia seated right, date in exergue. (Freeman 570 light tone, a very rare die variety £125-150 dies 7 + F; S.3958), uncirculated with lustre. £80-120

, bronze halfpennies (4), 1895, 1896, 1897, 141 Victoria, bronze halfpenny, 1862, dies 6/G, young 145 Victoria 1901 (S.3962), £100-120 head left, rev. Britannia (P 1776; Freeman 39; S all about uncirculated and lustrous 3956), fully lustrous, a few spots, handling mark on reverse, otherwise uncirculated £80-120 146 Edward VII, silver halfcrowns (5), 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910. Bare head right, rev. crowned shield within Garter (S.3980), generally fine £50-70

147 Edward VII, silver shilling (2), 1902, 1910, bare head right, DE S. below truncation, rev. small lion standing on crown, date either side (ESC 1410, 1419; S 3982), good very fine or better, the second with a hairline across reverse (2) £40-60

148 George V, half-sovereigns (2), 1911, certified and graded by NGC as MS 62; 1912, certified and graded by PCGS as AU 58 (2) £180-220 142 Victoria, bronze halfpennies (2), 1887, 1896, farthing, 1861, young and old veiled busts left, rev. Britannia seated right (S 3956, 3958), first practically 149 George V, silver crown, 1928, fourth Issue, as struck and lustrous, the second nearly extremely fine, the modified bare head left, rev. crown and date in last good very fine (3) £80-120 wreath (S.4036), almost extremely fine £150-200 158 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- sovereign, 1987, in red and blue cases of issue, brilliant mint state (2) £400-500

159 Elizabeth II, gold proof collection, 1987, comprising two-pounds, sovereign and half- sovereign, with Pistrucci’s St. George reverse (S.PGS08), in Royal Mint case of issue, brilliant mint state (3) £800-900

160 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- sovereign, 1988, in red and blue cases of issue, (2) £400-500 brilliant mint state

150 George V, bronze pennies, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1927 bare head left, rev., Britannia seated right, date in exergue, 1928, 1929, 1930 modified effigy, (S 4051, 4054A, 4055), about uncirculated (13) £200-300

151 George VI, coronation 1937, proof crown (S. 4079), 161 Elizabeth II, 500th Anniversary of the First Gold certified and graded by PCGS as ; PR64 threepence, Sovereign, proof gold sovereign, 1989, the Queen 1950, dodecagonal nickel-brass (S. 4133), certified enthroned, rev. shield of arms on rose, in red case and graded by PCGS as MS 63 (2) £80-100 of issue, brilliant mint state £700-800

152 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereigns (2), 1980, 162 Elizabeth II, 500th Anniversary of the First Gold 1981; proof gold half-sovereign, 1980, in folders Sovereign, proof gold half-sovereign, 1989, the of issue, brilliant mint state (3) £500-600 Queen enthroned, rev. shield of arms on rose,in blue case of issue, brilliant mint state £220-260 153 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- sovereign, 1982, in folders of issue, brilliant mint 163 Elizabeth II, Britannia gold proof collection, 1999, state (2) £400-500 comprising 100- ; 50- ; 25 - ; and 10-pounds, in Royal Mint case of issue, brilliant mint state (4) £1400-1600 154 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- sovereign, 1983, in separate cases of issue, brilliant 164 Elizabeth II, Britannia gold proof collection, mint state (2) £300-350 2003, comprising 100- ; 50- ; 25 - ; and 10-pounds, in Royal Mint case of issue, only 1,250 sets issued, brilliant mint state (4) £1400-1600 155 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- sovereign, 1984, in red and blue cases of issue, brilliant mint state (2) £400-500

156 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- sovereign, 1985, in red and blue cases of issue, brilliant mint state (2) £400-500

165 Elizabeth II, proof twenty five pounds (quarter 157 Elizabeth II, proof gold sovereign and half- Britannia), 2004, diademed head r., rev. Britannia sovereign, 1986, in red and blue cases of issue, standing on rock holding trident and shield (S.4291), in brilliant mint state (2) £400-500 fitted case of issue, with certificate,FDC £220-250 166 Elizabeth II, silver proof piedfort pound, 1983, in case of issue, brilliant mint state £100-140

167 Elizabeth II, a group of silver proof pound coins (7), 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1991, in cases of issue (1985 in case for the 1984-87

collection), brilliant mint state (8) £120-160

168 Elizabeth II, a group of silver piedfort proof pound coins (4), 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1989, in cases of issue (1985 in case for the 1984-87 collection), brilliant mint state (4) £120-150

169 Elizabeth II, proof sets (8), 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, brilliant mint state; ‘plastic’ decimal sets (2); sundry other coins and commemoratives (11), generally mint state (lot) £100-140

173 Imitation “Spade Guineas” Tokens, in brass 170 Elizabeth II, silver proof issues, Commonwealth (approx.100); and “half-guineas” (4), very fine and Games, two-pounds, 1986 (2); two-pounds, 1986, better; Bone Canteen tokens, Fisons Industries, 2 coin set; two-pounds, 1995, WW II; crowns (3), 1d, rectangular (10), 1/2d, round (6); Nottingham 1981, 1990, 1992; 50p, 1994, WW II; old and new National Shell Factory, 1d, round (1); S Boorman, 5p, 1990, 2 coin set; Alderney, two-pounds, 1989; Send, Woking, base metal tokens, 2d, rectangular Guernsey, two-pounds, 1989; Jersey, two-pounds, (4); 1d, square (8), generally fine (lot) £60-80 1989; Falkland Islands, crown, 1985, in cases of issue, mint state (15) £140-180 174 18th century, pennies in white metal (3 - Middlesex DH.212/218/219); halfpennies in copper (12 - DH. Devon 2/Essex 8a, edge erased/Kent 35a/ 171 Elizabeth II, silver proof piedfort issues (7), two- Mdx 257a/323/583a/928/930/981e/983/987d/9 pounds, 1989, Bill of Rights, 2 coin set; 20p, 1982, 91), in silvered brass (DH. Mdx 938); in white metal 10p, 1992 with 5p, 1990, 2 coin set; 5p, 1990 (2), in (DH. Mdx 947), mostly very fine (17) £150-250 cases of issue, brilliant mint state (7) £120-160

175 19th century silver, shillings (11); sixpences (5), of TOKENS Cheshire (D.4), Staffordshire (D.2/3/6/8/11-14), Warwickshire (D.6-8/10/11), Not Local (D.10/15/17- BRITISH TOKENS 19), nearly fine to good very fine, Staffs. 14 pierced and plugged, Staffs. 6 and Not Local 10 rare (19) £200-300 172 Scotland, Perthshire, Deanston, Adelphi Cotton Works, a George III halfpenny, probably 176 19th century silver, eighteen pence; shillings an imitation, countermarked on obverse, (10); sixpences (4), of Devon (D.1), Middlesex *ADELPHI* COTTON WORKS, around a woolsack (D.15/21/29/33/35/38), Northamptonshire (D.3); (Scott 77.1d; Davis 92; Seaby ST 25), coin worn, Sussex (D.7/8/17 or 18); Wiltshire (D.2/3/5), countermark very fine and well centered £150-200 Worcestershire (D.1), sussex D.17/18 mediocre/nearly Manville (page 58) classifies these as truck tickets used fine, very rare, otherwise fair to good very fine, Middx 35 prior to 1808. pierced, Sussex 7 rare (15) £200-300 177 19th century silver, Somerset, two shillings; shillings 185 Armenia, Hetoum I, silver trams (2), Zabel and (15); sixpences (7) (D.16/17/21-28/31 - brass Hethoum standing facing, long cross between, counterfeit/38-40/49/53/55/56 - silver-plated rev. lion right (Bed 1424/1521); copper tank, king counterfeit/57/64-66/71), fair to good very fine, D.24, 25 facing on late style throne within beaded circle, rev. and 40 rare (23) £200-300 cross within beaded circle (cf Bed 1391-3, and note p.276); Levon III (1301-1307), copper kardez, king seated on throne, rev. cross (cf Bed 1807ff); with a 178 19th century silver, Yorkshire, shillings (13); sixpences silver coin, wt. 2.43gms, 19mm, uncertain design, (2) (D.1/3/7-11/23/24/26/27/30-33), fair to very fine, said to be of Levon IV (1320-1342), overstruck on several rare (15) £200-300 Mamluk issue, nearly very fine to good very fine, the copper good for issue, the Tank a rare variety (5) £125-150

179 19th century silver, Yorkshire, eighteen pence (2); shillings (14); sixpences (2) (D.4-6/13/15/17/42/53/56- 58/60/64/67/68/70/72/73), nearly fine to very fine, several rare (18) £150-220

180 19th century silver, Yorkshire, shillings (11); sixpences (4) (D.34/36/75-77/79-84/86/93/95/96), fine to good very fine, several rare (15) £200-300

181 19th century silver, shillings (4); sixpence, of Wales, 186 Australia, Victoria, sovereigns (2), 1873S; Brecknockshire (D.1); Glamorgan (D.16/19), and 1886M, both young head, St. George (S. 3858; Ireland, Dublin (D.8/9), brecon 1 mediocre/fair, pierced, 3854), certified and graded by NGC as AU 55 and MS rare, otherwise fair to good fine(5) £80-120 61 (2) £400-500

187 Australia, George V, halfpenny, 1919, crowned 182 Warwickshire, Atherstone, Sir George Chetwynd, bust left, rev., value within circle (KM 22), extremely private ‘Grendon Halfpenny’ token, 1842, by T. fine, little actual wear £60-80 Halliday, stuck in silver, bust r., rev. arms, edge plain (Bell 2, Davis, Warwickshire, 821; D&W 17), mint 188 Australia, George V, halfpenny, 1936, crowned state, toned and scarce £150-200 bust l., rev. value within circle (KM.22), certified and Sir George Chetwynd (1783-1850), politician and MP graded by PCGS as Mint State 64 Brown £80-100 for Stafford (1820-1826), formed one of the finest collections of tokens including the pick of Matthew Young’s collection in 1831 and the collection of John Harding of Staffordshire.

189 British Guiana, William IV, silver 1/8 guilder, 1836 WORLD COINS (Pr.28; KM.22), grey tone, extremely fine or better, some brilliance, scarce thus £200-250 183 Armenia, Levon I, silver coronation tram, scene of the anointment of the king (January 1199), rev. two lions, cross between, wt. 2.84gms. (Bed 118a), very fine, toned £100-120

184 Armenia, Levon I, silver coronation tram, scene of the anointment of the king (January 1199), rev. two 190 British Honduras, Victoria, silver 25 cents, lions, cross between, wt. 2.95gms. (Bed 91/3), some 1897 (Pr.14; KM.9), certified and graded by NGC as weakness, very fine, toned £100-120 AU58 £80-100

191 British Honduras, Edward VII, cupro-nickel 5-cents, 1909 (Pr.32; KM.14), streaky tone, good very fine £50-100

192 British Honduras, George V, cent, 1918, crowned bust l., rev. figure 1 within scalloped circle, 198 British West Africa, 1/10-penny (2), 1952, 1954 denomination and date below (KM.19; Pr.60, (KM.26a, 32), ½-penny, 1952H (KM.27a), penny cleaned, otherwise extremely fine or better £100-150 (4), 1952H, 1952KN, 1956KN, 1957KN (KM.30a, Only 50,000 pieces struck. 34, 33), the 1956 penny good extremely fine with brilliance, generally extremely fine(7) £75-100

, George III (1760-1820), silver dump 48 193 British Honduras, George VI, bronze cent (4), 199 Ceylon 1943, 1944, 1950 (2); Elizabeth II, cupro-nickel stivers, 1808, elephant left, date in exergue, rev. 50 Cents (5), 25 Cents (3), nickel-brass 5 cents (6), value, wt. 9.25gms (Pr.10; KM.77), contemporary copy, £150-250 mostly uncirculated, a few very fine (18) £150-200 very fine

200 Ceylon, Dutch colony, copper 2 stuivers, Galle, 1783 (Sch.1334, KM.30), well struck with full impression, very 194 British Honduras, Elizabeth II, bronze cent, 1958 fine and scarce in this condition £120-200 (KM.30), certified and graded by NGC as MS64RB; another, 1959 (KM.30), certified and graded by NGC as 201 Ceylon, Colonial mostly Dutch, an assortment of MS62 BN (2) £120-150 VOC 1 stuivers of various mints and dates, includes Jave, bonk, 1 stuiver, 1886, mixed condition, mostly poor to fine, some better examples included (30) £100-150 195 British Honduras, Elizabeth II, mis-struck bronze 1 cent, 1968; scalloped edge, off-struck (cf KM.30), 202 Ceylon, British Commonwealth, double proof minor reverse stain, nearly extremely fine, an interesting set, 1957, silver 5-rupees and cupro-nickel rupees (2 of error £50-100 each – KM PS3), in blue leatherette Royal Mint case of issue, only 700 sets issued, mint state (4) £150-180

196 British North Borneo, British North Borneo Company, 1889/99H, value within wreath, rev. national arms with supporters (KM.2 var.; Pr.18 var), good very fine, very rare £150-200

This unlisted overdate is very clear. On first inspection, it appears to be dated 1899, a date that was not issued. With ANACS certificate (second 8 over 9). 203 China, Three Kingdoms, Minor Han Dynasty (221-65 AD), Emperor Liu Pei (221-2 AD), 197 British West Africa, 1/10-penny (2), 1912H, 1936 (KM.7), ½-penny, 1913H (KM.8), penny (2), bronze cash of 100-Wu-Shu (3) (Schj 182); Wu 1912H, 1920H (KM.9), 3-pence, 1936 (KM.10b), Dynasty (229-65 AD), Emperor Sun Liang (252- 6-pence, 1936KN (KM.11b), shilling, 1920KN 7 AD), bronze cash (100-Cash) (2), T’ai-p’ing, (KM.12b), 2-shillings (3), 1920KN, 1927, 1936 different varieties (Schj 199, 200; Jen 97), some (KM.13b), generally extremely fine(11) £100-120 patination, fine to very fine (5) £80-120 207 China, Szechuan, Republic, silver dollar, year 1 (1912), without dots in right character in obverse field (L&M.366; Kann 775; KM.Y456), extremely fine £140-180

208 China, Republic, of Yuan Shih Kai, silver dollars (3), year 3 (2) and year 9; also Sun Yat Sen, Silver Dollars (2), Memento type (1927 restrike) and ‘junk’ type, year 23 (L&M.63 (2), 77, 49, 110; KM.Y 329,329.6,318a.1,345), very fine to nearly extremely fine (5) £200-300

204 China, Northern Wei Dynasty (386-550 AD), 209 China, Yunnan, silver half dollar, ND (1909-11) Emperor Wen (471-99 AD), bronze cash (3), T’ai-ho (L&M 426; KM Y259.1), with miscellaneous minor Wu-shu (Schj 237; Jen 122); Northern Ch’i Dynasty copper coins and brass cash (7); British trade dollar, (550-77 AD), Emperor Wen Hsuan (550-9 AD), 1911B, with two Chinese chopmarks on obverse bronze cash (2), 553 AD, Ch’ang-p’ing Wu-shu (Schj (KM.T5), about very fine (9) £80-120 242; Jen 131), some patination, very fine (5) £100-150

210 China, Hunan Province, tea bricks (2), temple gateway at centre, five stars above, legend in characters below, rev. divided into 16 segments, 19th century, approx. 238mm. x 188mm., both in good order, one fine, the other very fine (2) £120-150

205 China, Southern Sung Dynasty (420-79 AD), 211 China, Tea Brick, gateway with plants to either Emperor Wen (424-53 AD), bronze cash of 4-Shu side, five stars above and legend below in 2 lines, (Schj 215; Jen 111); Emperor Hsiao Wu (454- the reverse divided into 16 segments, 238mm x 64 AD), bronze cash of 4-Shu (Schj 218), some 188mm, 20th century, nearly very fine £65-80 patination, about very fine (2) £75-100

212 Cyprus, Victoria - George VI, 45 piastres, 1928 (2); eighteen piastres (11): 1901 (3); 1921 (3); 1938 (2); 1940 (3); 9 piastres (26): 1901 (5); 1919 (6); 1921 (5); 1938 (6); 1940 (4); piastre, 1885; half piastres (2): 1921; 1938, mostly fair to very fine, a few later pieces better (42) £200-300

206 China, Northern Chou Dynasty (557-81 AD), 213 Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III (1959-1977), gold Emperor Wu (561-78 AD), Bronze Cash (3), (575- medallic pound, 1966, bust l., rev. double-headed 6 AD), Wu-hsing ta-pu, 26mm, 24mm, 20mm (Schj eagle (Fr. 6b), lightly scuffed, extremely fine £200-250 246-9; Jen 135); Southern Dynasties (c.500-550 AD), unofficial Bronze Ring-shaped Coins (7) (Schj 304-5; Jen 109), and a Bronze Amulet, inscription, 214 Dutch East Indies, Java, copper bonk of 1 stuiver rev. four figures around hole (cf Schj 1), mostly (4); Batavia emergency issue ½ stuiver, 1644. KM.31 patinated, fair to very fine (11) £75-100 (pierced), generally poor to fine (5) £50-60 215 Egypt, Faud (1917-1936), 20-piastres (3), bust r., 1923; 1929, 1930, both bust l. (Fr. 30, 34; KM 339, 351), certified and graded respectively by PCGS as MS 62 Scratch – XF Details, and MS 63 (3) £140-180

216 Egypt, Farouk (1937-1952), Royal Wedding, 20-piastes, 1938 (Fr. 38; KM 370), certified and graded by PCGS as MS 64; silver 10-Pistres, 1939 (KM 367), certified and graded by NGC as MS 63 (2) £100-120

217 France, Charles the Bald (843-77), silver denier, Melle, cross, CARLVS REX FR, rev. KAROLVS monogram, METVLLO, without x in legend, wt. 1.05gms, (MEC 924/933; M&G 1063), toned, very fine £100-150

218 France, Charles the Bald (843-77), silver denier, Melle, cross, CARLVS REX FR, rev. KAROLVS monogram, METVLLO, without x in legend or lozenge within monogram, wt. 1.04gms, (MEC 924/933; M&G 1063), very fine £100-150

219 France, Charles the Bald (843-77), silver denier, Melle, cross, CARLVS REX FR, rev. KAROLVS monogram, METVLLO, without x in legend, wt. 0.99gms, (MEC 924/933; M&G 1063), very fine £100-150

220 France, Charles the Bald (843-77), silver denier, Melle, cross, CARLVS REX FR, rev. KAROLVS 223 Germany,Prussia, Wilhelm II, silver 5-marks, monogram, METVLLO, without x in legend, wt. 1899, 1904, 1914 (KM.523, 526); Third Reich, 1.02gms, (MEC 924/933; M&G 1063), very fine 50-reichsmarks, 1935, 1937 (KM.86, 94); £100-150 Switzerland, 5-francs, 1925B (KM.38), fine very fine (6) £120-150 221 France, Charles the Bald (843-77), silver denier, Melle, cross, CARLVS REX FR, rev. KAROLVS 224 Germany, Schaumburg-Lippe, Georg (1893-1911), monogram, METVLLO, without x in legend, wt. silver 3 mark, 1911A (J 166); Saxe-Meiningen, 0.95gms, (MEC 924/933; M&G 1063), very fine Georg II (1866-1914), silver 5-mark, 1902D (J 153a); £100-150 together with various silver German and German East African coins of the 19th and early 20th centuries (25), the first with pleasant tone, extremely fine, the second very fine, others mixed grades (27) £400-500

222 France, Second Republic, 5 francs, 1849A, Hercules 225 Greece, Otto (1832-1862), 10-lepta, 1857, Athens group, rev. value and date within wreath (KM.756.1), mint, crowned shield, rev. value in wreath (Divo certified and graded as Mint State 64 £80-100 20g; KM.29), very fine £80-100

231 India, Sultanates, Bengal, coinage in the name of 226 Greece, silver proof 100-drachmai, 1978, in Nasir al-Din Mahmud Sultan of Dehli (AH 644- case of issue (KM.121), mint state, with light 664; 1246-1266 AD), silver tanka, no mint, no date iridescent tone £60-80 (G&G B68), very fine / good very fine £80-120

227 Hong Kong, Victoria, silver 10 cents, 1892 (Pr 86; KM 6.3), attractive colourful tone on obverse, extremely fine / uncirculated £50-80

228 India, northern, Muzaffarpur & Narhan (in modern- day Uttar Pradesh) districts, Shakya Janapada, silver double karshapana punchmarked bars (5), (c. 600- 500 BC), uniface, scyphate large bars with single 232 India, Bombay Presidency, pice, 1674 (Pr 81; KM central circular punchmark of five crescents around 131), about very fine, only a small part of the obverse legend a pellet, some traces of other later peripheral marks; illegible £150-200 three rectangular, one square, one half-moon shape, wt.6.59gms., wt.6.55gms., wt.6.35gms., wt.6.52gms., wt.6.55gms. (Rajgor Series 33; M.2194-9), good very 233 India, Bombay Presidency, silver rupees (3), fine, rare (5) £250-350 Mumbai mint, AH 1155, Year 25, AH 114x Year 19, AH 1148 Year 18 (Pr 53, 49, 50; KM.163), and ½-pice or ¼-pice(?), 1820-1821, from the series of 229 India, early copper ‘Gaja Lakshmi’ plaques, thick copper coins of Southern Concan, Bankot mint, cast type (14), flat struck type (9), bull type (3), and wt. 2.84gms (the series has ½-anna, pice and ½-pice seated type (2) (Codr. pl.II); also silver coins of the listed, see Pridmore 322-327), rupees about very fine to Cheras (3); copper coins of the Pallavas (2), Cholas very fine, last two with a few edge knocks and the second with (16), Pandyas of Madura (3, and 2 plaques), Ceylon some mishandling, last with Irregular flan, reverse double (199), and Jaffna (8), 4th – 15th centuries, many struck, very fine (4) £75-100 identified, some with provenances (Mitch.pp.121- 139); with miscellaneous minor coins of India and Ceylon in base gold (3), silver (24) and copper (9), poor to very fine, an interesting group (305) £400-600 234 India, East India Company, ¼-anna, 1835, off centre misstrike (KM 446), good very fine £30-50

235 India, rupees (7), 1835-1945; miscellaneous minor coins in silver (4) and copper (2), including Sultans of Bengal, Ghiyath al-Din Bahadur (720-4h / 1320-4 AD), silver fraction, wt. 0.56gms, fine to very fine (13) £250-350

230 India, Sultanates, Bengal, coinage in the name of Shams al-Din Iltutmish, Sultan of Dehli and the Caliph al-Mustansir, silver tanka, no mint, no date 236 India, Victoria, EIC, quarter-rupee, 1840; Edward (G&G B37), uneven patina, very fine £250-300 VII, 2-annas, 1910, virtually mint state (2) £40-60

237 India, Sultans of Delhi, billon tankas (approx 72), mostly Sikandar Shah (AH 894-923; 1489-1517 AD) (Raj 1518, 1519); with a leather Y-shaped ornament of 47 silver coins tied to the three ends, the coins all South American, minor denominations of the early 19th Century, the silver coins all pierced, fine to very fine (lot) £30-50 241 India, miscellaneous modern Indian coins (approx 290), mostly different dates or mints, including 10-rupees (3), rupees (11), 50-naye paise/paise (26), 25-naye-paise/paise (28), 3-paise (12), 10-paise (33), 1971 (KM.27.1), 10-paise (14) (KM.26.3), 20-paise (10), 25-paise (17), generally mint state (lot) £250-400

242 Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, pahlevi, SH 1350 (1971), bare head l., rev. lion brandishing sword within wreath (Fr. 101; KM 1162), others (2), SH 2536, 2537 (1977, 1978), similar (Fr. 101; KM 1200), certified and graded respectively by PCGS as MS 64, MS 64, and MS 63 (3) £420-460

243 Italy, Naples, Carlo V (1516-56), silver cinquina, pillars of Hercules, rev. fleece over A, R ARAGO

UTRIUS (MIR.151/2; PR.39b); Venice, Marino Morosino (1249-53), silver grosso (Mont.42; Pa.1), , Mughal, copper coins (approx 65), mainly 238 India toned, good very fine (2) £200-250 Sultans of Malwa and Akbar, varied conditions (lot) £75-100

239 India, East India Company, Madras Presidency, early copper, dudu (2), 175x, 176x (Pr 45-50 var), very fine for issue (2) £20-30 244 Italy, Sicily, Messina, tancred (1190-1194), copper follaro, cufic legend,rev. name around REX (MIR 45; Sp 139/140); Venice, Iacopo Contarini (1275-1280), 240 India, early copper ‘Gaja Lakshmi’ plaques, thick silver grosso (Mont 53); with miscellaneous world cast type (14): flat struck type (9); bull type (3); coins (6), silver (3) and copper (3), mostly 17th to 19th and seated type (2) (Cod.Pl II); also silver coins of centuries, generally fine to very fine (8) £75-100 the Cheras (3); copper coins of the Pallavas (2); Cholas (16); Pandyas of Madura (3, and 2 plaques); Ceylon (199), and Jaffna (8), 4th-15th centuries, many 245 Jamaica, Charles, Prince of Wales, 10th identified, some with provenances (M. pp.121- Anniversary of the investiture, proof gold 139); with miscellaneous minor coins of India and 250-dollars, 1979, Prince enrobed, rev. arms (Fr Ceylon in base gold (3); silver (24) and copper (9), 11; KM 83), in case of issue, 1,650 specimens poor to very fine, an interesting group (305) £400-600 struck, brilliant mint state £800-1000

246 Japan, Koshu Province, gold 1 shu kin, late 17th century, wt. 0.94gms, 10 mm. (JNDA.09-89; F.42; KM.92), very fine and clearer than most specimens seen, 256 Russia, Nicholas II, 5 roubles (3): 1898 (1); 1899 (1); mount mark on lower rim, rare £200-300 1901 (1), bare head l., rev. crowned double-headed eagle (KM.Y62; Fr.180), very fine or better (3) £400-500 247 Japan, miscellaneous coins (315), base metal, 19th to early 20 centuries, fine to very fine (315) £80-120

248 Japan, brass 100 mon (48), Tenpo-Tsuho, 1835-70 (JNDA.pp.151ff; KM.C7), mostly very fine, a few better (48) £200-250 , Olympics, silver 1,000-yen, 1964 (7), and 249 Japan 257 Russia, Nicholas II, gold 5-roubles, 1909 (Bit 34 100-yen, 1964 (8) (JNDA 03-1, 03-2; KM.Y80, (R); Fr 180; Sev 588), certified and graded by NGC as Y79), bright uncirculated (15) £120-150 MS64, scarce date £400-600 250 Kiribati, Republic, Independence 1979, gold proof 150-dollars, arms, rev. “Maneaba” or traditional 258 Russia, Nicholas II (1894-1917), rouble, 1913, meeting house (KM 9), in red leather Royal Mint on the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty case of issue, only 1000 specimens struck, brilliant (Bit.336; KM.Y70); together with miscellaneous mint state £350-450 Russian coins in silver (7) and base metal (1), the first extremely fine, others fair to good very fine (9) £200-300 251 Lichenstein, Franz Joseph II (1938-1989), set of two gold coins, 50- and 25-Franken, 1956, Bern mint, conjoined busts with Princess Georgine [Gina], rev. crowned shield (F. 20, 21; KM MS3; HMZ 1452-53; S. 10,11), in maroon leather case of issue, mint state (2) £300-350

252 Malaya and British North Borneo, Elizabeth II, 20 cents, 1956, crowned bust r., rev. value within beaded circle, date below, a thin striking in bronze 259 Russia, Nicholas II (1894-1917), 50 kopecks, 1897, exhibiting multiple overstruck images, wt.2.30gms. Paris mint, star on rim, dies ↑↑ (Bit.197; KM.Y58.1), (cf. KM 3), nearly extremely fine, rare £250-300 about uncirculated / uncirculated £200-300

253 Mexico, 8 reales, 1774, engraved on obverse “John Hargreave Bury 1779”; together with miscellaneous 260 Sarawak, C.V. Brooke, cupro-nickel 10 Cents, 1934 British silver coins (68), mixed grades (69) £200-300 H (Pr 21; KM 16), some brilliance, a few small spots, otherwise about extremely fine £50-100 254 New Zealand, Elizabeth II, proof gold 10-dollars, 2005, for the Lions rugby tour, bust of Queen r., , Republic, proof set, 1976, Independence, rev. rugby player, in case and box of issue, only 1000 261 Seychelles gold 1000 rupees - cent, bust of President Mancham specimens struck, brilliant mint state £200-300 r., rev. various (KM.PS4), sealed in plastic and in original Spink & Son case, FDC £400-600 255 Russia, Alexander II (1855-81), rouble, 1870HI, St Petersburg (Bit.83), minor rim dents, good very fine £150-250 Only 1000 sets minted. 262 Singapore, Malacca, Singapore Fighting Cock token (Duit Ayam), silvered-copper Keping token, AH 1247 (1831) (Pr 21, 20; KM 8.1), very fine £30-50

267 Sudan, Abdullah ibn Mohammed (AH 1302-1316; 263 South Africa, ZAR, Kruger, pond, 1893, bust l., AD 1885-1898), copper 20-piastres (4), Omduman rev. circular shield of arms over flags, eagle above mint, AH 1312/12 (AD 1894/5), legend and date (KM.10.2; Fr.2), certified and graded by NGC as Almost within wreath, rev., legend within wreath, spears Uncirculated Details £200-250 below (KM 26), fine to very fine, one shows hint of base 264 South Africa, quarter-krugerrand, 1981, mint silver (4) £70-100 state £200-250 268 Tunisia, Mahmud II (1223-1255h / 1808-1839 265 Straits Settlements, George V, silver 20-cents AD), billon 2-piastres, 1245h (1829-1830 AD), (4), 10-cents (30), 5-cents (8), generally fine to very wt. 23.39gms. (KM.93), residual lustre and light tone, fine (42) £180-280 extremely fine for issue, rare thus £250-350

269 Tunisia, Mahmud II, billon piastre (2), small size, 1242h, 1244h (KM.90); with copper coins of EIC (2), Madras, good very fine or better (4) £80-100

270 USA, Rosa Americana twopence, 1723, bust of George I r., rev. crowned rose, fair to fine £80-100

271 USA, Wood’s Hibernia Coinage, farthings (13), 1723 (11), 1724 (2), halfpennies (35), 1722 (2), 1723 (29), 1724 (4) (Red Book p.42, 43; S 6600-6604), with the exception of two or three mediocre examples, all generally fine to very fine, an interesting and assorted group (48) £400-600

272 USA, Land Limitation Scheme, copper cent, 1821, Coronet type, c/stamped on obverse, VOTE THE LAND/ FREE (Rulau HT 833), countermark very fine, host only fair to fine; another, c/stamped on 266 Sudan, Abdullah ibn Mohammed (AH 1302-1316; obverse, WAR and six-pointed star above date, rev. the AD 1885-1898), copper 20-piastres (3), Omduman numeral 3, countermark very fine though R of WAR mint, AH 1312/12 (AD 1894/5), legend and date weak, host fine; Thomas Spence, anti-slavery farthing, within wreath, rev. legend within wreath, spears T SPENCE A STATE PRISONER IN 1794, rev. below (KM.26), fine to very fine, one shows hint of base AM I NOT A MAN AND A BROTHER (D&H Middx silver (3) £100-140 1082; Conder 307, 444), fine (3) £150-200 273 USA, gold 1 dollar, 1851D, mounted, fine, rare date £200-300 278 USA, bronze cent (2), 1909, Lincoln head, rev. value with wheat ears, no VDB, both certified and graded by PCGS as MS65RD (2) £100-120 274 USA, gold dollars (3), type 1, 1851 (2), very fine; 1852, gilt, ex-mount, only fine (3) £220-280

279 USA, 5-cents “Buffalo nickel,” 1937 D (Denver 275 USA, gold dollar, type 3, 1874, Indian head l., rev. mint), “three-legged buffalo” (KM 134), certified and value and date within wreath, may have been in ring graded by PCGS as “Genuine not gradable” £100-150

mount, about very fine £60-80 The coin has an unfortunate punch-mark on the bridge of the Chief ’s nose, creating a corresponding bump on the buffalo’s rear left leg.

280 USA, proof set, 2009, as issued, in 4 plastic folders; proof dollars (6), Eisenhower 1971 S (5); Desegregation, 2007, Philadelphia; currency dollar, 1972 S; Spain, 2-Pesetas, 1982, all certified and graded respectively by PCGS, the last as “Sample” (lot) £80-100

MISCELLANEOUS

281 Africa, Congo, Katanga, a large cast copper ‘Katanga Cross’, mid-19th century, approx. 205 x 203mm., wt. 806gms. (Quiggin p.103, fig. 38 and pl.1, 3), good colour and appearance; Nigeria, a pair of cast bronze Okpoho ‘slave’ manillas, mid-19th century, the oval bracelets with flared ends, 58 & 60mm. (Quiggin p. 89-91), very fine (3) £100-140

282 China, a large antique Dotchin balance or ‘opium’ scales, contained in a ‘violin’ shaped and fitted patinated hardwood box with swivelling lid, single brass pan and separate weight, white bone beam or th 276 USA, silver dollars (3): 1879S; 1882O; 1885, Liberty steelyard, graduation marks in black, 19 century, head l., rev. eagle within wreath, all extremely fine to 307mm., excellent condition £80-120 uncirculated (3) £40-50

283 South America, silver Native American Christian 277 USA, quarter dollar, 1892O, Type 2 reverse, Liberty pendants (12), made from Latin American coins, head r., rev. eagle with shield on breast, good very fine some details just discernible on a few pieces, 23mm or better, some original lustre £60-80 and loop, much as made (12) £50-60

287 Miscellaneous, base metal coins (49), mostly 19th Century from Baroda and 20th Century of the Republic, generally fine to extremely fine(49) £40-60

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS

BRITISH MEDALS

284 International Exhibition medal, 1862 (Eimer 1556); France, silver ecu, 1785 (KM.572); Also world coins, various countries and denominations, 288 Elizabeth I, Assistance to the United Provinces, mostly 20th century, most containing silver (33), Dutch Copper Jeton, Antwerp, 1585, Elizabeth generally poor to good fine (35) £180-200 enthroned, presents roses to two Deputies, MACTE ANIMI ROSA …, rev. two Spaniards eat hay from a manger along with a horse and donkey, SPRETE AMBROSIA VESCITOR FENO, 31mm (MI 133/86; 285 Miscellaneous, World coins in silver (50) and base Dugn 3044; vL I, 355, 2), fine £30-40 metal (44), mostly 18th to early 20th centuries, mixed grades (94) £300-400

289 Charles I, Peace or War, copper medal, 1643, Nicolas Briot, laureate and draped bust right, signed B below, rev. crossed sword and olive branch dividing crowned C-R, date below, 29.5mm (MI.309/136; Eimer 142); Copper Memorial Medal, by J Roettier, struck after the Restoration, bust right, wearing armour, hair long and love-lock falling over left shoulder, rev. hand from heaven holds crown over pastoral landscape, 51mm (MI 346/200; Eimer 162), fine and good very fine (2) £100-120

The second medal is always described as by John Roettier, th 286 Lead seals and tokens, several dated from the 18 but now believed to have been issued c.1695 by James century, some with old collectors’ tickets, fair to very and Norbert Roettier (cf A Griffiths, Advertisements for fine(14) £60-80 Medals in the London Gazette, The Medal, no.XV, pp.4-6) 293 George I, Naval Action off Cape Passaro, 1718, copper medal, by J Croker, laureate bust right, D: G: MAG: BR: FR: ET. HIB: REX. F: D., rev. statue of the King as Neptune upon a rostral column, naval trophies around, SOCIORUM PROTECTOR, with CLASSE. HISP: DELETA. AD. ORAS SILICÆ in exergue, 45mm (Eimer 481; MI ii 439/42), fine £75-100

A small group of Medals of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757) Reference is made to J. W. Adams & F. Chao, Medallic Portraits of Admiral Vernon, Gananna, Ohio, 2010 [A&C] 290 Oliver Cromwell, death 1658, base metal cast copy of the large Dutch medal, laureate armoured bust left, rev. shepherd with his flock under an olive tree, 294 Admiral Edward Vernon, Capture of Portobello, landscape in background, 49mm (MI I, 435/85; v L 1739, small Vernon pinchbeck medals (3 – 27mm.); II, 420; Eimer 200), surface once silvered, fine £80-120 another, larger, 34mm. (A&C. PBv 3-C/11-I/12-J; Betts 195/193/189); larger (3), Royal arms, rev. Porto Bello harbour, 40mm. (A&C. PB 2-D; Betts , Coronation 1661, small silver medalet, 291 Charles II 271; MI.539/125), fair to fine (6) £100-150 “struck probably for sale in the streets …”, royal crown above two interlinked C’s, rev. rose, floral 295 Admiral Edward Vernon, Capture of Portobello, border both sides, 14mm (MI 477/85, illus.), uneven pinchbeck medal, 1739, Vernon half-length to l., tone but virtually mint state and a rare survivor £80-120 rev. fleet in harbour, 37mm. (A&C. PBv 46-QQ; MI.563/113), a museum quality electrotype display copy, very fine; others (4), Vernon half-length, three- quarters l., fine (5) £100-140 296 Admiral Edward Vernon, Capture of Portobello, pinchbeck medals (4), 1739, Vernon and Brown standing vis-à-vis, rev. fleet in harbour, 34mm. (A&C. PBvb 2-D, Betts 249), very fine; 37-38mm. (3 – PBvb 4-F/6-J/9-F; Betts 101/268), fine; another, Capture of Cartagena, Vernon, Ogle and Wentworth, 38mm. (A&C. CAvow 1-A; Betts 309; 292 Anne, Accession to Throne 1702, silver medal, by MI.554/175), about fine (5) £140-180 John Croker, crowned and draped bust left, rev. heart and crown within oak and laurel branches 297 A group of Vernon medals (15), including several on pedestal, ENTIRELY ENGLISH around, varieties, a few badly corroded, others worn and marked, 35mm (MI i 227/1; Eimer 388), about extremely generally poor to fine (15) £80-120 fine, numerous small scrapes in the obverse field behind the bust £120-180 ******************************************** 300 Admiral Rodney, Capture of St Eustatius, bronze medal, 1781, unsigned, uniformed bust right, G B RODNEY, rev. two frigates firing on a fortress, all within a compass design border, 25mm (BHM 238), good fine £60-80

301 William Pitt (1759-1806), statesman and Prime Minister, Suffolk Pitt Club, silver members’ medal, unsigned, bust of William Pitt left, rev. legend in wreath, 36mm (BHM 1171; Eimer 1159; MG 1129), suspension loop and ring, in red leather case of issue, choice mint state £120-160

After Pitt’s death in 1806, clubs were formed throughout Britain to perpetuate his principles. Most of those that issued medals are for the period 1813-14, but Sheffield is 298 Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786), the Battle dated 1810 whilst Suffolk, dated 1821, is the latest. of Ushant, copper medals (2), 1778, signed IH, uniformed bust three-quarters right, rev. JUDICIOUS / BRAVE / AND / GALLANT within wreath, one without reverse, 40mm and 39mm (BHM 214; Eimer 774; MH 437), very fine and fine (2) £80-120

It would appear that the first was indeed struck without a reverse, rather than having it removed.

302 Scotland, George IV, visit to Scotland, silver medal, 1822, by W Bain, laureate bust of King, rev. Scotland offers king the crown, Edinburgh 299 Admiral Augustus Keppel, Trial by Court Martial castle in background, 44.5mm (BHM 1178; Eimer and Acquital, bronze or brass medals (2), 1779, 1162); National Monument of Scotland, Laying uniformed bust three-quarters right, rev. Justice Foundation Stone, copper medal, 1822, by W Bain, tramples on Tyrany, ship beyond, 34mm (BHM similar bust, rev. façade of the monument, 44.5mm 221; Eimer 777; Betts 564; MH 441), fine and good (BHM 1179), both good extremely fine, first pierced with fine (2) £120-160 split-ring for suspension (2) £100-120 305 William IV, Coronation 1831, the official silver medal, by William Wyon, bare head r., rev. diademed head of Queen Adelaide r., 33mm (BHM 1475; Eimer 1251), minor scuff marks, extremely fine and toned £140-180

306 Joseph Banks (1743-1820), silver banksian medal of the Horticultural Society of London [now Royal Horticultural Society], by William Wyon, awarded 1837, bust right, rev. engraved details in centre, “Presented to Mr Wilmer for Pinks …”, 38.5mm (BHM 1041; E 1138; D & W 137/281), good very fine, 303 Botanical and Horticultural Society of and a scarce early award £80-120 Durham, Northumberland and Newcastle-on- Tyne, instituted 1824, copper medal, unsigned, Flora seated in gazebo with vine, pineapple and potted plant, rev. legend around floral wreath, 48.5mm (BHM -; D&W -; MG -), virtually mint state, extremely rare £40-60

304 Benefit Society, white metal medal, 1827, by T W Ingram, running fox, HELD AT THE FOX 307 Constantine Henry Phipps, Earl of Mulgrave GOSPEL OAK, rev. Justice, UNION IS THE BOND (1798-1763), Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, copper OF SOCIETY – ESTABLISHED JUNE 11 1827, tribute medal, 1837, by Mulrenin after G Brown, head 54.5mm; White Metal Friendly Society Medals left, PACIFICATOR HIBERNAE, rev. Earl’s coronet (4), Berkshire (Victoria and Edward VII; Wiltshire above legend, 51.5mm (BHM 1750; Eimer -), very and Hampshire); sundry medals in white metal (4), fine with good portrait, minor edge bruises, scarce £80-120 Jubilee 1809; E Moses, Calendar, 1855; Wear Valley Extension Railway, 1893; Manchester Ship Canal, Phipp’s political career began as MP for Scarborough. 1894; and others (2), Earls Court Wheel, mostly very He was Governor of Jamaica, 1832-1834, Lord Privy Seal, 1834, and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, 1835. fine, first and some others pierced (11) £75-100 311 Albert [Richard] Smith (1816–1860), author, entertainer and mountaineer, death, silver medal, 1860, by Messrs Pinches, bearded bust r., rev. legend with dates, 22.5mm (BHM 2679, R2; D & W 69/180), extremely fine; other private medals or tokens, all same obverse; Egyptian Hall – China, 1859 (2), silver-plated, die flaw on rev. and copper; Egyptian Hall, Museum, 1860 (2), copper and brass (BHM 2678, R2), these very fine or better (5) £100-150

In August 1851 Smith climbed Mont Blanc, publishing a book about his adventures, The Story of Mont Blanc. This led to an entertainment called “Mont Blanc” produced at the Egyptian Hall, which proved to be the most popular exhibition of its kind and ran for 2000 performances over six years.

312 Edward VII, small silver official coronation medal, 1902; together with miscellaneous medals, tokens, weights, etc., in base metal (17), fair to fine (17) £60-80

308 Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819-1861), Marriage to Queen Victoria, 1841, positive steel puncheon, set in iron surround, for the 6mm miniature medal, known only in gold, by William Wyon(?), bust right (BHM 1946, for medal; Hocking -), very fine and presumed unique £75-100

The medal a companion to that of Queen Victoria. The steel puncheon 10.5mm at its base, the whole 44mm.

313 Death of Quintin Hogg, bronze medal, 1903, 309 Belfast, Collegiate School, the Annual Medal, 1850, by Restall, bust right, rev. QUINTIN HOGG THE silver, engraved both sides, “Ja[me]s G. Young, POOR BOY’S FRIEND, 45mm (Eimer 1877), LLD, TCD, Principal”, rev.., named to “William extremely fine £20-40 C Hart”, floral and wreathed borders, 60mm, suspension loop and ring, very fine £80-120 *ex Watts Collection. 314 David Livingstone (1813-1873), explorer, The Collegiate School was established May 1, 1847 at 8, Centenary of Birth, The London Missionary Howard Street, Belfast. Society Copper Medal, 1913, by Allan Wyon, bust of Livingstone, three-quarters right, DAVID LIVINGSTONE BORN BLANTYRE 1813 DIED ILALA 1873, rev. St Paul with attendants before 310 Victoria, Halesowen Baptist Church, silver medal, an altar, 43mm (BHM 2959; Eimer 1626), commemorating the laying of the Memorial Stone, extremely fine £100-150 inscription in oak and laurel wreath, Presented to The medal was struck on the centenary of Livingstone’s William Green Esq JP, ON LAYING MEMORIAL birth in 1913, utilising the same obverse as that used on STONE FOR BAPTIST CHAPEL HALESOWEN th the Royal Geographical Society prize medal, which was July 27 1858, rev. wreath, 64mm, with maroon presented to those natives who carried Livingstone’s body leather case of issue, extremely fine £60-80 from Ilala to the coast (cf Fearon 325.2; cf Eimer 1637). 315 Royal Mint, 1100 years of minting, silver medal, 319 Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, University of 1986, 63mm, 148.4g; Falkland Islands, 100th Adelaide, Faculty of Law, Randolph Isham Stow medal, Anniversary of Self Sufficiency, medaliic proof copper, undated, by Allan Wyon, bearded bust three- silver £25, 1985, by Raphael Maclouf and Michael quarters left, rev. legend around central circular tablet, 39 Hibbit, both in cases of issue, brilliant mint state (2) mm; Joseph Fisher Medal for the study of commerce, c £100-140 1903 (2), silvered and copper, by Allan Wyon, bearded bust right, rev. legend and cartouche, 38.5mm; Tennyson Medal for English Literature, small gilt-bronze specimen, 316 Great Britain and South Africa, miscellaneous c 1901, by Allan Wyon, bearded bust of Alfred, Lord th 20 century medals and medalets (34), in various Tennyson right, rev. legend in and around wreath, base metals, covering a wide range of subjects; and 28.5mm, numbered 168 on edge, small spot on reverse of Joseph Chamberlain, Munich 1938, small Bronze latter, otherwise virtually as struck (4) £100-150 Medal, 35mm, very fine and better (35) £75-100 *ex Watts Collection

Randolph Isham Stow (1828-1878), was born in England and in 1865 he was one of the first three barristers appointed Q.C. in South Australia. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly for West Torrens in 1861- 62, Victoria in 1863-65, East Torrens in 1866-68 and Light in 1873-75 and was attorney-general in three ministries. In 1864 he brought down WORLD MEDALS the Ayers government. In 1875 he was appointed a judge of the Supreme Court but was to die of atrophy of the liver on 17 September 1878, aged only 49. Joseph Fisher (1834-1907), accountant and parliamentarian, paid £1,000 to the University in 1903, for promoting the study of commerce, the grant providing for a medal awarded annually to a student of Advanced Commerce. In 1900 Hallam, 2nd Baron Tennyson (son of the Poet Laureate) presented the sum of £100 to the University of Adelaide to provide medals as awards for English Literature at the Public Examinations. The gift provided for the award of a gold medal for Leaving Honours standard, and silver medals each for Leaving and Intermediate 317 Austria, Peter Rosegger (1843-1918), poet and standard examinations. The awards continue to be made. author, Bronze Medal, by L Hujer, bust left, rev. the hero Roland watches over a group of children, 59mm (Würz 7984), extremely fine £30-50

320 Belgium, Leopold I (1790-1830-1865), Inauguration of the Railway from Aix-la-Chapelle to Verviers, by L J Hart, military bust of King three-quarters right, 318 Austria, silver 2-shilling, 1929, 1932 (KM.2844, 2848); rev. standing figures of Belgium, France and Prussia, Belgium, silver 5-franc, 1933 (KM.98); Baden, silver River Gods below, distant panoramas including 2-marks, 1905 (KM.272); Saxony, silver 2-marks, 1904 Cathedrals of Antwerp and Cologne and train on (KM.1257); Third Reich, silver 5-reichsmarks, 1937 the Dolhain Limbourg viaduct, 72.5mm (Moyaux (KM.94); Great Britain, silver crown, 1935 (KM.842); 65; Swan 220), very fine, nick to reverse rim £60-80

Netherlands silver 2 ½-gulden, 1930 (KM.165), fine to The 20 arched Dolhain Limbourg viaduct was damaged very fine (8) £120-150 during the war but was renovated in 2010. 321 Bulgaria, The Parliament Building, Sofia, silver(?) medal, 1944, façade, rev. legend and crest, 60mm, matt surface, nearly extremely fine £50-70

322 Canada, Montreal, McGill University, specimen of the Shakespeare Tercentenary Medal, copper, 1864, by J. S. & A. B. Wyon, 1564 – 1616, bust of Shakespeare l., rev. details in and around quadrilobe, 44.5mm, mint state £100-140 *ex Watts collection 326 Egypt, The Opening of the Suez Canal, silver medal, 1869, by O Roty, seated female figures holds 323 Canada, Montreal, McGill University, copper aloft the light of Progress to the standing figure specimen of the Hiram Mills medal, 1882, by J. S. of Industry, beyond, a sketched route of the Suez & A. B. Wyon, crowned arms of the University, . rev Canal, rev. inscriptions, 42mm (Divo.606), matt name of the benefactor, edge stamped 555, 45mm., surface, extremely fine £60-80 virtually mint state £80-120 *ex Watts collection.

Major Hiram Mills (c. 1796–1882), the American-born philanthropist who, on his death left no provision for his wife but bequeathed $43,000 to McGill to establish a gold medal, a scholarship, and an endowed chair in classics.

324 Canada, Toronto, University of Toronto, silver award medal, 1882, by Benjamin Wyon, winged Victory hovers with wreath, rev. engraved, 327 France, Mediaeval bronze roundel, engraved with a VNIVERSITAS TORONTONENSIS – G H BLAKE half-length figure of a king holding up a large sword, PROPTOR METAPH ET ETH FELICITER possible legend around, 33mm, very fine £80-120

EXCVLTAS, 34mm, suspension loop added; The piece could possibly have been made as an appliqué Ottawa, Public Schools Board, attendance medal, decoration and the attribution to France is supposition. silver, 29mm, suspension loop, very fine (2) £50-70 *ex Watts Collection. 328 France, Peace and Cession of Tournai, 1519, later 325 Ceylon, Colombo, The All Ceylon Exhibition, retrospective bronze medal, bust of Francois I 1912, silver medal, a Ceylonese girl resting on an as Roman general left, rev. Peace seated holding a elephant’s head holds wreath, rev. rural land- and torch to a pile of arms, 54mm (BMC Vol I 220); sea-scape, ribband for naming, 40.5mm, extremely Pierre Corneille (1606-1684), classical dramatist, fine and rare. £80-120 Bas-relief Portrait in cast iron, by A J Depaulis *ex Watts Collection. (1834), bust left in high relief, 212mm, extremely fine H. P. Macmillan was the Exhibition’s General Secretary. and very fine with a small piercing (2) £50-70 329 France, Louis XIII (1601-1610-1643) and Anne of Austria (1601-1666), cast bronze medal, by 332 France, Napoleon, Marriage to Marie-Louise, Guillaume Dupré, 1620, youthful bust of Louis copper medal, 1810, by L Manfredini, conjoined right, wearing armour, ruff and sash, LVDOVIC busts right, he crowned she with diadem, rev. XIII DG FRANCOR ET NAVARÆ REX, rev. bust Hymen, with torch, repels Mars, the God of of Anne right wearing high, open ruff and pearl War, SAEVUM PROCUL MARTEM FELIX TEDA necklace, ANNA AVGVS GALLIÆ ET NAVARÆ RELEGAT, 43mm (Br 961; Ess 1294; Julius 2273), REGINA, 58mm (BMC [Jones] 52/53; TN II, 6, 4; virtually mint state £100-120 Maz II, 685; Kress 565; Hall Collection, Baldwin’s Auction 64, lot 301), neatly pierced at 12 o’clock, a very fine later cast with some age £70-80

330 France, Louis XIV (1638-1643-1715) and later, Portrait Jetons in brass and copper (15); Louis XIII (1); non-portrait (4), fine and better (20) £70-90

333 France, Napoleon on St Helena, bronze medal, 1815, by T Halliday, laureate bust right, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, rev. text in 36 lines, 54mm (Bramsen 1711), die flaw and crack to obverse, good very fine £60-80

334 France, Alliance Français, Presentation silver medal, undated, by Jean-Baptiste Daniel Dupuis, France seated by tree, instructing small children representing France, Asia, Middle East and Africa, rev. tablet on open book, “Miss I H Saxton – Concours Special”, 68mm, matt surface, extremely fine; together with an 331 France, Lorraine, copper medal, by Ferdinand de St Urbain, earlier engraved silver medal, 1831, Dunkerque, c.1720, map of Lorraine, POSSESIO EIVS NEPOTVM Société d’Harmonie, École de Musique Dirigee par HEREDITAS, rev. legend in fifteen lines, ALBERTVS Mr F Dubreu, “ 1ERE Classe, 1ER Prix … à L Clarke”, ADALBERTI ALSATIAE COMITIS FILIVS…, 47.5mm 45mm, suspension loop and ring, very fine (2) £80-120 (BDM V, 310, no 21), very fine £75-100 *ex Watts Collection.

From the Series of Medals of the Dukes and Duchesses The first was designed 1894, first struck in 1898 and of Lorraine. continued to be awarded until 1940. 335 France, Louis Philippe I, the Marriage of the Duc d’Orléans and Princess Hélene of Mecklenburg Schwerin at Fontainbleau, copper medal, 1837, by Barre, triple busts left, rev. legend, 41.5mm; Duc d’Orléans, Memorial, small copper medal, 1846, by Borrel, 26mm; with 19th century copper medals (2) of Henri IV, by Droz, “Légion d’Honneur” and “Le Vainqueur et le Pere”, 40mm, mint state of virtually so (4) £100-150 *ex Watts Collection.

The 2nd medal in a small card box inscribed, “In Memory of a visit to the very interesting & sad place of the Death of the Duke of Orleans – Paris – 25 April 1850”.

337 Germany, Brunswick-Calenberg-Hannover, Sophia of the Palatinate (1630-1714), Electress of Hanover (1692-1698), Complimentary silver medal, by E Brabandt, 1693, her draped bust right, rev. sun rises over pasteral landscape, castle to left, legend on ribband, SENZA TVRBARMI AL FIN M’ACOSTO, 47mm (Brockmann 751), fine £100-150

338 Germany, Frankfurt, Free State, Alexander Freiherr von Vrints Berberich (1764-1843), Politician and General Director of Posts, Thurn und Taxis, copper medal, 1835, 336 France, Lorraine, copper medals (3), from the series by L Held and Loos, bust right, rev. legend in wreath, 50mm of ‘The Dukes and Duchesses of Lorraine’, by (Fell 1041); Francis I of Austria, Enters Milan, patinated Ferdinand de St. Urbain, Frederick I and Ludomilla bronze medal, 1815, by Vassallo and Manfredini, bust left, rev. [of Poland]; Matthew I and Bertha; Geradus II, Emperor on horseback greeted by “Milano”, 42.5mm; and non-portrait, legend in 13 lines, rev. Lion to left, Denmark, bronze medal of Major General C T Jorgensen, E FORTI FORTITVDO, each 47.5mm, first two very Numismatist, 1889, by S Lindhal, bust right, rev. medieval fine, last better (3) £100-140 coin, 35mm, first very fine, others a little better (3) £60-80 341 Hungary, Martin Georg Kovachich (1743-1821), 70th birthday, bronze medal, 1813, by H Karl, bust left wearing fur-trimmed coat, rev. legend in wreath, 44.5mm, good very fine £40-60

Kovachich was the curator/librarian at the University of Pest. He was to donate 300 folios of manuscripts to the National Museum of Hungary.

342 Hungary, 50th Anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, bronze medalet, unsigned, Victory in biga in the heavens, ISTENÉRT KIRÁLYÉRT HAZÁÉRT, rev. a flag, decorated 339 Greece, George I (1845-1863-1913), The Bank of with oak branches, inscribed SZABADSÁG Greece, 60th Anniversary, 1841-1901, bronze medal, TESTVÉRISÉG EGYENLÖSÉG, with 1902, conjoined busts of the first four Presidents SZABADSAGHÁRCZUNK DISCÖ EMLÉKÉRE of the Bank, Stavros, Renieris, Kalligas and Streit, 1848-1898 around, 29mm, good extremely fine £30-40 rev. façade of the Bank, radiant sky from Royal arms, 54.5mm, extremely fine £30-40

343 Hungary, OMÉK Budapest Országos Mezőgazdasági 340 Greece, World War I, Inter-Allied Victory medal, és Élelmiszeripari Kiállítás és Vásár National 1914-1918, by H Nocq, winged Victory, rev. infant Agriculture and Food Fair and Exhibition, Budapest, Hercules wrestles serpents, tablet below, 36.5mm, 1966, pair of medals, 1967, in gilt and silvered metal, round suspender (lacks ribbon), very fine £80-120 70mm; another, Russian, Gilt-metal, 1970, 60mm, in Some 200,000 medals issued. cases of issue, generally extremely fine (3) £30-40 344 India, Bombay, Alexandra Native Girls’ English 347 India, Bombay, Mahi Kantha, Scott Rajkumar College, Institution, Ave [Awabai] Bhownaggree (1869- Ferris award medal, silver, 1908, uniformed bust three- 1888), silver memorial medal, 1888, bust right, quarters left, rev. legend, 44mm (Pudd 908.3), mint state; AVE BHOWNAGGREE 1869 MEMORIAL MEDAL together with Ramnee Park, St. Mary’s Convent, small 1888, rev. laurel wreath, 38.5mm (Puddester silver Prize Medal, awarded 1957, shield of arm, rev. 888.5.2), extremely fine and rare £80-120 wreath, 32.5mm, very fine (2) £80-120 *ex Watts Collection. *ex Watts Collection.

Awabai Bhownaggree was the much loved sister of The first a school for the education of the sons of Rajas Sir Mancherjee Merwanjee Bhownaggree (1851-1933), and Thakurs. St. Mary’s Convent was founded in 1878 at the second Indian to be elected a British Member of Nainital, by Reverend Mother Salesia. Parliament. The medal was awarded between 1890- 1892 to the top girl in the matriculation exams, and from 348 India, Calcutta, Doveton College, engraved silver 1893 it was funded by a grant and the dies were given to medal, 1881, on struck flan, beehive, “Preparatory the school. Bhownaggree also funded a Memorial Hall Entrance Class”, rev. “Awarded to J C Bagram”, 43mm in her name. The school is now the Alexandra Girls’ (cf Pudd 852.2), suspension loop and ring, very fine £60-80 English Institution. For further information see John *ex Watts Collection. McLeod, Mourning, Philanthropy an M. M. Bhownaggree’s Road to Parliament, Oxford and New York, 2008. 349 India, Calcutta, School of Tropical Medicine, silver plaquette, 1921, by Allan Gairdner Wyon, bust of Lord Minto three-quarters left, in Viceroy’s uniform, rev. palms in a swampy landscape, 70.5 x 48mm (Pudd 948.48.1), matt surface, virtually mint state £150-200 *ex Watts Collection.

The School of Tropical Medicine, Calcutta opened in 1921; Lord Minto (1845-1914, Viceroy 1905-1910).

350 Iraq, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, Association Football Championship, Baghdad, struck silver medal, 1919, engraved details in centre, rev. wreath, centre blank for further inscription, 51.5mm, small suspension loop, very fine and a very rare sporting medal £100-150 *ex Watts Collection.

Photographs of the event by G M L Bell are to be found in the archive of Historical Photographs of the Middle East at the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, 345 India, Christ Church Boys High School, Jubbulpore Oxford. [Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh], uniface silver prize medal, c.1876, 39mm; and École St Martin, uniface brass token, “Moniteur”, both very fine (2) £30-40 351 Italy, Renaissance, Cecilia Gonzaga (1426-1451), by Pisanello, cast bronze medal, 1447, half length bust Christ Church Boys High School was founded on 1 of the sitter left, her hair tightly bound with a ribbon, November 1876 by the Rev Drawridge and now teaches some 3000 students – quite an increase on the original wearing an embroidered gown and pleated skirt, three. CICILIA VIRGO FILIA IOHANNIS FRANCISCI PRIMI MARCHIONIS MANTVE, rev. in a rocky landscape below a crescent moon, semi-nude young woman rests her hand on the head of a unicorn lying beside her, to the right, a stele, with a floral ornament 346 India, Calcutta, Mr Ardwise’s Seminary, established fixed to its top, bears the inscription OPVS PISANI 1849, 6 pointed silver star, 1876, unnamed, bees PICTORIS M CCCC XLVII [the work of Pisanello around hive, floral points to star, rev. AWARDED the painter 1447], 80mm (Hall collection, Baldwin’s TO, 69.5mm (Pudd 849.1.2, listed as a nine pointed Auction 64, May 2010, lot 7; Hill, Corpus 37; Arm I, star; cf 849.1.1 and 849.3, named to Calcutta 5, 12; Currency of Fame 7a; Pollard 20; Kress 17), a Seminary), very fine £120-150 modern cast £60-80 352 Italy, Naples, Louis XII, of France (1462-1498- 1515), Fantasy Medallic Ducat, struck in Copper, crowned bust right, LVDO FRA AN REGNI Q NEAP R, rev. crowned shield of France, PERDAM BABILLONIS NOMEN, 27.5mm, 19th Century (cf F 826), choice extremely fine £30-50

353 Italy, Sarraco, Battista (born 1486-1487), secretary of Ercole II d’Este and poet, aged 70, uniface cast bronze portrait medal, 1556, by Pastorino de’ Pastorini (c.1508-1596), bust right in cloak with fur collar, signed and dated on truncation, 1556P, BAPTISTA SARRACVSAGEN ANN LXX, 73.5mm, contained within close fitting brass border (Attwood 557a, this from the Collection of George 355 Italy, Urbano Savorgnan (1704-1777), Priest with III, also uniface; Armand I-207-114; Rizzini 300), the Congregation of the Oratorians or Filippini a soft aftercast cast (comparable with the BM specimen), and Numismatist, Venetian bronze medal, 1777, nearly very fine, the brass border seemingly contemporary by Francesco Corazzini, bust right, wearing cap with the medal £120-180 and gown, VRBANO SAVORGNANO PATRIT VEN

The medal is also found with an unrelated reverse on a PBRO ORAT BONON, rev. legend in and below olive medal of Isabella Capua Gonzaga. and oak wreath, SENAT PRAEF INSTIT V B M D D / SVPELL CONLAT AD INCREM SCIENT ET ART, 64mm (Voltolina 1627; BDM I, 458; Johnson II, 282), 354 Italy, Federico Cesi (1585-1630), founder of the small verdigris stain on rev.erse, very fine and rare £80-120 Lyncean Academy in Rome, 1603, Bronze Medal, uncertain medallist, signed on truncation, NICO Urbano Maria Savorgnan was born in Venice in 1704, one of eight brothers and two sisters. He devoted himself to GRAB F, bust right, rev. lynx within crowned a religious life, joining the Filippini in Bologna during wreath, LYNCEIS INSTITVTIS, 34mm (Börner which time he formed a fine collection of medals, which 1830; Brettauer 203), a contemporary cast, very fine; he left in his will to the Institute of Science and Arts Germany, World War I, St Barbara, Patron Saint of the city of Bologna. After his death, the Institute of artillery, Bronze Medal, 1914, unsigned, massive commissioned this medal as a token of thanks. The howitzer and shell, ARTILLERIE IM WELTKRIEG, Oratorians or Filippini were founded in 1551 and named rev. St Barbara, crowned and nimbate, SANCT after Saint Philip Neri. They, like the Jesuits, were one th BARBARA ORA PRO NOBIS, 31.5mm (Bernhart of the new religious orders established in the mid-16 413), extremely fine (2) £80-120 century as part of the Counter-Reformation. 358 Italy, Venice, School for Armenian Studies, Moorat- Rafael College, copper medal, “for goodness and studiousness”, by Stiore and Ferrari, circular temple, legend around, rev. legends within and around wreath, 43.5mm, very fine, rare £80-100 *ex Watts Collection.

The College is now an hotel.

359 Italy, Vatican, Pius XI, Ratti (1922-1937), silver annual medal, year 16 [1938], for the Academy of Science, by Mistruzzi, bust left, rev. medallic portrait roundels of Michelangelo, Leonardo and Alexander Volta, 45mm, fine £20-30

A Collection of Papal Medals

The striking of Papal medals began in the 15th century and from the late 16th century there was a call for medals depicting popes from earlier times. These are known as ‘restitution medals’ and their production lasted until the 19th century.

356 Italy, Giovanni Ansani (1744-1826), Tenor from Livorno, cast brass medal, 1792, by Giovanni Zanobio Weber, bust right, his hair a mass of curled hair, rev. legend in 4 lines within wreath, VIRTVTI LIBVRNI CIVITAS, 1792, 56mm (Clifford 291; Johnson 817, 642; Molinari 138), unpatinated, very fine £70-100

360 Italy, St. Peter, The First Pope (c.30-c.64), early restitutional bronze medal, in high relief, in the style 357 Italy, Marriage of Victoria Columna and Alexandro of Girolamo Paladino, SIMON PETRVS CEPHA Torlonia, bronze medal, 1840, by P Girometti, her GALI, nimbate bust l., holding key, rev. SALVA bust right, rev. phoenix within wreath, legend around, NOS DOMINE, Christ stills the tempest, 39mm. 61mm, a couple of edge-knocks, good very fine £30-40 (Modesti 1; Linc.-), very fine, rare £80-120 361 Italy, early restitutional Papal medals (3), in bronze, in flat relief, in the style of Girolamo Paladino: St. Clement I (88-97), bust l., rev. St Veronica’s handkerchief, 40mm.; St. Eleuterus (174-189), bust l., stamped XIV below, rev. FVGITE PARTES ADVERSÆ, 363 Italy, early restitutional Papal medals, in bronze cross, 40mm.; Boniface II (530-533), tonsured bust l., (4), in flat relief, in the style of Girolamo Paladino: rev. crossed keys, 42mm. (Linc.7/26/-), the first double- Sisinius (708), bust l., in cap, rev. crossed keys, pierced at top, all very fine (3) £80-120 stamped LXXXIX, 41mm; Benedict IV (900-903), bust l., wearing tiara, rev. cross, stamped CX-IV (Linc.174), 41mm; John XV (985-996), tonsured bust l., rev. St Veronica’s handkerchief, stamped CXXXXI, 42mm; Benedict IX (1032-1044), bust l., in cap, rev. St Veronica’s handkerchief, stamped 196, 40mm., very fine (4) £100-150

Benedict IX is believed to have been Pope on three separate occasions, and only aged about 20 when first elected.

364 Italy, early restitutional Papal medals, in bronze (3), in high relief, in the style of Girolamo Paladino: St Felix I (269-274), bust l., rev. linked keys, 42mm. (Linc.47 var.); St Eusebius (309-311), bust r. in cape and cap, rev. linked keys, 41mm. (Linc.56 var.); Alexander III (1159-1181), bust r., rev. St Peter and crossed keys, 41mm. (Linc.223 var.); another, pewter/lead, bust right wearing tiara, rev. similar, 41mm.; Marcellus II (1555), the 21-day Pope, bell metal, bust l., wearing cope, rev.. SI POSSIBLE..., 362 Italy, Christopher I (903-904), the Anti-Pope, early Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, 43mm. (Arm restitutional bronze medal, in flat relief, in the style II, 216, 12; Linc.558), old casts, last very much an aftercast, of Girolamo Paladino, bust r., rev. FVGITE PARTES first and third pierced, fine to very fine (5) £140-180 ADVERSÆ, cross, stamped CX-XI, 41mm. (Linc.-), very fine £70-90 Marcellus II was Pope from 9 April 1555 to 1 May 1555.

367 Italy, early restitutional Papal medals, in bronze (2), 365 Italy, St. Telesphorus (125-136), early restitutional in low relief, in the style of Girolamo Paladino, each bronze medal, in high relief, in the style of Girolamo with reverse of an armorial shield over crossed keys: Paladino, bust l., rev. [empty] armorial shield over Benedict I (575-579), bust r., with tiara, rev. stamped LX- crossed keys, 39mm. (Linc.16 var.), very fine £70-100 IV (Linc.97); Gregory V (996-999), first German pope, bust l., in cap and cope, rev. stamped CXX-XXIII, both 41mm. (Linc.196), very fine (2) £60-80

368 Italy and Turkey, Pope Innocent XI (1676-1689), Odescalchi, bronze medal, 1684, for the Battle of Párkány, the Ottoman Turks defeated by Jan III Sobieski, bronze medal, 1684, by Giovanni Hamerani, bust r., in tiara, rev. SVB TVVM PRÆSIDIVM, a large standard flies before a battle scene, above the Madonna and child, seated on an image of her house, 39mm.

(Linc.1461; H-Cz.2482), very fine, rare £150-250 366 Italy, early restitutional Papal medals, in bronze (5), The standard depicted was placed in the Church of in the style of Girolamo Paladino, each with reverse Notre Dame at Loretto, to where the Casa Santa is said of [empty] armorial shield over crossed keys: St. to have been transported by four angels. Zephyrinus (199-217); St. Leo I (440-461), the Great, ************************************** bust r.; St. Simplicius (468-483), bust r.; Sergius II (844- 847), bust l.; Leo IX (1049-1054), bust l., 38-42mm. 369 Jamaica, Falmouth, Suffield School, opened 1836, (Linc.31/78/81/155, varieties), scratches before bust on and Jubilee of the Baptist Mission, the school obverse of first, fine to very fine (5) £140-180 building, rev. legends, 26mm; Kingston, Jamaica College, bronze medal, shield of arms, 32mm, suspension loop, this very fine, first better though pierced for suspension (2) £40-60 *ex Watts Collection.

The first named after Lord Suffield, who had died in a riding accident in 1835. In 1832 he owas a non-plantation owner appointed by a parliamentary commission to look into the “Condition and treatment of the slaves…”. Jamaica College is a prominent all-male secondary school. First known as the Drax Free School, it was founded in 1789, making it the fourth oldest high school in the country.

370 Netherlands (Spanish Netherlands), Charles II (1661-1665-1700), Office of the Exchequer, copper token, 1677, crowned Royal Arms, rev. Cross of Bourgogne, 29mm (Dugn 4378), very fine £60-80

371 Netherlands, Wilhelm V, Entry into Amsterdam, with Princess Wilhelmina of Prussia, silver medal, 1768, by J G Holtzhey, conjoined busts right, rev. cherub with arms of Amsterdam over legend in ten lines, 33.5mm, slightly wavy flan, very fine £50-70

372 Netherlands, Joan Melchior Kemper (1776- 1824), constitutional lawyer, scholar and statesman, Memorial, copper medal, 1835, tomb, rev. legend in wreath, 27mm; Poland, Jan III Sobieski, 300th Anniversary, 1683-1983, large cast bronze medal, crowned head right, rev. legend, 84mm, good very fine and virtually as made, very fine (2) £40-60

374 Poland, Polish Interest, Ancient Order of Foresters, gilt-bronze medallic badge, in ornate silver eight- 373 Palestine, Germany (Prussia), Wilhelm II (1859- pointed star mount, with hallmarks for London, 1871, 1941; Kaiser 1888-1918), Visit to Jerusalem, silver and the maker’s mark ADL; with a copper medal, medal, 1898, Emperor on horseback right, rev. the 1889, souvenir of the Eiffel Tower, the Forrester’s Aedicule of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 33mm, badge lacking glaze, about extremely fine (2) £60-80

extremely fine with light mottled tone, scarce £80-120 Abraham David Loewenstark (ADL) was originally Plans for a careful renovation of the Aedicule, to be Polish, from Krakow. He is registered in the 1876 Regalia underwritten by a gift from King Abdullah II of Jordan, and Jewel manufacturers list as “Loewenstark & Sons, were announced in 2016. Jewellers, 21 Strand, London”. 375 Russia, Alexander III, silver memorial medal, 1894, by A Griliches Jr, head right, rev. crown over dates, 28mm, integral suspension loop (Diakov 1094.1), about extremely fine, toned £50-70

376 Russia, Nicholas II (1894-1917), Visit to France, Inspection of French Army Corps “Alpine Hunters”, 9-10 October, 1896, Fame with standard, blows trumpet, rev. legend within and around wreath, 38.5mm (Diakov 1214.1, R3), bobble suspender and ring, good very fine £250-300 380 Spain, Maria of Aragon (1396-1445), Queen of Castile, uniface bronze medal, attributed to Leone Leoni, bust right, crown behind, D MARIA ARAGONIA, 45mm (Arm II, 2; Pollard III, 310; Att 142), a good quality early cast, old museum acquisition number on reverse £80-120

377 South Africa, South African War, bronze peace medal, 1900, by Fuchs, 44mm (Hern 100), extremely fine £40-60

image reduced 378 South Africa, Lord Kitchener, uniface Silver-plated copper medalet, bust left, FIELD-MARSHALL LORD 381 Spain, Alfonso XII (1857-1874-1885), Marriage to KITCHENER 1850-1916, extremely fine £20-30 María de las Mercedes de Orléans, copper medal, 1878, by G Sellan, conjoined busts right, rev. legend in seven lines, 70.5mm, good very fine £50-70 379 South Africa, The Afrikaans Language Monument, Paarl, Western Cape Province, opened, silver The marriage was to last only six months. María de las medals (2) and bronze, 38mm; others (6) including Mercedes was found to have typhoid fever, she suffered a miscarriage and died in Madrid two days after her 18th Centenary of Robertson, 1953, medalets (3), very birthday, on 26 June 1878. The following year the king fine and better (9) £20-30 married Maria Christina of Austria. 382 Sweden, Pehr Westerstrand (1785-1857), Grand Master, Knight Commander Grand Cross of the North Star, silver memorial medal, 1857, by Lea Ahlborn, bust left, rev. flaming urn, 43mm (Hild II, 143; Olsén 134), scuffed, good very fine £60-80 385 Switzerland, “The Heros of Liberty”, French Bronze Westerstrand was a man of many roles, President of the Medal, by Rogat and Borrel for the Cercle Britannique, State Treasury, Senior Director of the Royal Ochestra conjoined busts of Washington, Kosciusko and Lafayette and Member of the Academy of Music. left, rev. birth and death details, plain edge (denoting early strike), 51.5mm (Baker 196S), very fine £80-120

383 Switzerland, Geneva, the 24 Commissioners of the Republic, copper medal, 1767, by Daniel Cochin, figures gathering wood,rev. names and date, legend around, DECERNEE PAR LES CITOYENS ..., 46mm (BDM I, 446), nearly extremely fine £20-30

384 Switzerland, Geneva, Education Board, silver 386 Switzerland, Hans Waldmann, Mayor of Zurich, medal, 19th century, unsigned and undated, radiant 400th anniversary of his death, Silvered-bronze sun over arms of Geneva, rev. classical scholar seat- Medal, 1889, by Wilhelm Mayer [Stuttgart], half- ed to left, 41mm; Vaud, Vevey, silver school prize length bearded bust three-quarters right, GOTT medal [1769], by J C Mörikofer, VIRTUS INNEXA WOLLE DASS DIR KEIN LEID WIDERFAHRE DU VERO around central W, rev. Minerva and student, LIEBES ZÜRICH, rev. Waldmann stands in full armour, AUT PUER AUT NUMQUAM, 31mm (Leu 1450), amidst helms and armorial shields, 69.5mm (Leu 35, extremely fine (2) £60-80 489; Martin 16289), 70 specimens struck in silver, *ex Watts Collection. uneven tone, extremely fine £120-150 387 Turkey, Smyrna (Ízmir), Bournabat English 391 USA, Independence Hall, white metal centenary College, silver medals (2), awarded 1857 and 1862, medal, 1876, with ring loop attached, light corrosion, facing classical head, named within wreath, “Prize of otherwise extremely fine £20-30 Honour Chn Whittall” and “Edgar Whittall”, each 36mm, very fine and extremely fine, rare (2) £120-150 392 USA, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, James *ex Watts Collection. Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897), copper medal, 1883, by C. E. Barber, bust of Sylvester left, with flowing The brothers Charlton Whittall (1844-1864) and Edgar SYLVESTER Whittall (b 1853), both born at Smyrna, were the 5th and beard, behind head, rev. legend around 9th of the 15 children of Sir James Whittall and Magdalen, and within oak wreath, PER SEPTEM ANNOS IN née Giraud, of “The Big House”, Bournabat (Bornova), VNIVERSITATE AB IOHNS HOPKINS FVNDATA near Smyrna. He was a merchant trading in his father’s PROFESSOR, 64mm, mint state, scarce £80-120 *ex Watts Collection. company C. Whittall & Co of Smyrna and “reputed to have been the wealthiest merchant of the Levant”. As James Joseph Sylvester, FRS, English mathematician. He well as British children the school was open to “Greeks, was appointed the inaugural professor of mathematics at Armenians and Jews” and by 1864 the number of pupils the new Johns Hopkins University and insisted that his stood at about 80 boys. salary of $5,000 be paid in gold. He was the founder of the American Journal of Mathematics.

MEDALS BY SUBJECT 388 USA, Boston, City Medal for Females, instituted by the School Committee, 1821 [last two digits 393 Art Medals, Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais engraved], hexagonal struck silver medal, “Merited [Frédéric de La Mennais, L’Abbé de Lamennais] by M A McMellen for Superior Scholarship AD (1782-1854), priest, philosophical and author, 1838” [last two digits engraved], 35mm, integral reduced uniface bronze plaquette, after David suspension loop, and ring, very fine £120-150 d’Angers, bare head right, signature and date, *ex Watts Collection. 1831, below, 76mm (Ni -); Antoine Lavoisier, Benjamin Franklin, who was born in Boston, left £100 bronze medal, by Tasset, for the 50th Anniversary sterling to the City of Boston for medals to be given of the Société Chimique de France, 1907, bust of to the best boys in the then 7 public schools (3 to each Lavoisier after David d’Angers, rev. text and wreath, school, for a total of 21 per year initially). These medals 59mm, first about extremely fine, presumed to be a later were first awarded in 1792 and were to be the prototypes strike, the second extremely fine (2) £40-60 of all American school medals that followed. In 1821, with girls now also attending the public schools, the School Committee reasoned that Franklin probably meant “children” when he wrote “boys” and a new medal was established for girls.

389 USA, Boston (?), unknown school, engraved silver medal, “Gift of Franklin AD 1788”, rev. “Awarded to Wm F Fowle, 1848”, 32.5mm, pierced, about very fine £120-150 *ex Watts Collection.

“A Choice Collection of Books – the library of William F Fowle of Boston, Mass”, was sold at auction in 1864.

394 Astronomy, Germany, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias 390 USA, International Centennial Exhibition, Olbers (1758 – 1840), Astronomer, silver medal, Philadelphia, bronze medal, 1876, by H Mitchell, 1830, by Chr Pfeuffer for G Loos, on his 50th seated female figure to left, the shield of the United anniversary working in Bremen, draped bust left, rev. States at her side, border decorated with vignettes legend in 15 lines within a border of stars, 50.5mm, good very fine, though obverse with patchy tone £80-120 displaying the symbols of Art and Industry, rev. wreath with inscriptions, 77mm. good very fine £30-50 Olbers was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1804. 395 Education, Sedgley Park Roman Catholic School, established 1762, copper reward of merit medal, c.1800, façade of the school buildings, rev. altar

within wreath, 42.5mm, extremely fine £40-60 Sedgley Park School was founded by Bishop Richard Challoner and placed under the care of his Chaplain, the Rev William Errington. It was the first post- Reformation English Catholic boarding-school for the education of boys whose parents were ‘in more confined circumstances’.

397 Education, Scotland, Instution Française, Edinburgh, Mr Francois Espinasse, family group of engraved silver prize medals (3), 1841, “A Mr Robert Greig - Classe élémentaire - 5e Prix”, 35mm, maker J Law(?), with double fleur-de-lis marks; 1848, Classe de Commençantes – 1er Prix – Miss Jane Greig; 1848, Classe de Commençantes – 2e Prix – Miss Agnes Greig, these 43mm, maker J Law (Edinburgh), very fine and better (3) £250-300

396 Education, France, Enseignement Secondaire des François Espinasse appears in the later Post Office Jeunes Filles, silver medal, by Oscar Roty, 1884, Directories at several address, 1 Hill Street, 38 Frederick laureate figure of Education reaches her hand to a Street and 1 London Street. The double fleur-de-lis marks are seen to either side of the initials. Similar student, both classically robed, VIRGINES FVTVRA marks on silver from earlier in the century are found for VIRORVM MATRES RESPVBLICA DOCET, rev. Robert robertson of Culpar. legend in ten lines around a basket of wool and needles - and a book, wt. 153.96gms, matt surface, extremely fine and rare £140-180 , Scotland Cambuslang, Kirkhill 398 Education The Enseignement Secondaire des Jeunes Filles were Public School, silver religious knowledge prize, established in 1880 by Camille (Camille Salomon Sée, 1886, engraved disk in a heavily foliate brace with 1847-1919), Deputy of the Seine Department, minister suspension loop; Goodmans Ltd., silver prize medal, of Instruction Publique and Beaux-Arts. 1898, both good extremely fine with lustre (2) £40-50

402 Music, Royal Academy of Music, prize medals (3), by B Wyon for Messrs Pinches, head of Apollo with lyre, rev. inscription and wreath, awarded to 399 Engravers, France, the Guild of Seal Engravers in Elsie Squire, in Bronze (2), for violin, 1901, and Paris, copper jeton, 1713, by C Mavelot, arms, rev. sight singing, 1902; and in silver, for violin, 1902, all legend in twelve lines, 29mm; copper marriage jeton, in cases of issue, all extremely fine (3) £40-60 1643, of Thomas Morant, seigneur d’Éterville and Catherine Bordier, 30.5mm (Feud 8628), very fine (2) £20-30

400 Masonic, France, First Empire, copper jeton, 1802 (5802) of the lodge ‘La Parfaite Union de Douai’, seated figure, CONSOCIARE AMAT, rev. legend around star, ECOS. DE LA PARFAITE UNION O DE DOUAI, 28mm, very fine £30-40

403 Photography, The Gevaert International Competition, 1912, 60mm, in card box of issue with details winning photograph (but not who took it!); other Awards (2); Bronze ‘Art’ Medals (3), City of Paris, Conseil Municipal, Bronze Medal by P-M Dammann and M. Delannoy, Paris on ship’s bow, rev. façade of municipal building, 50mm; Lucas van Leyden, 1933; Casa Ferreirinha, Portuguese wine, 401 Masonic(?), Jewel of an Order, gilt-metal and 1971; Arlberg Strassentunnels (2), 1978, very fine to mother-of-pearl, early 19th Century, cross, sword extremely fine (8) £75-100

and olive spray, set on mother-of-pearl, gilt wreath The fourth with a splendid ‘Art-Deco’ obverse border, rev. engraved with floreate cross, crown usually associated with the medal of the Association suspender, 44.5mm x 25.5mm, very fine £40-60 Philomathique.

404 Railways, Hungary, Szegzard-Battaszeki Railway, silvered-metal medal, 1897, by Joseph Christian Christelbauer, Vienna (1827-1897), winged wheel, 407 Science, Norway, Christopher Hansteen (1784- AUGUSZTUS, rev. HORSKY JANOS, 29mm, mint 1873), copper medal, 1861, by R Bergslein, bust right, state £30-40 rev. legend within and around wreath, 38mm (Würzb 3566), very fine though the rev.erse stained £20-30

Hansteen, Norwegian geophysicist, astronomer and physicist, first to map the Earth’s magnetic field.

405 Railways, Bolivia, La Paz to Oro Railway, 1908, silver medal, locomotive right, rev. arms, 23mm; Potosi Railway, 1912, silvered-bronze medal, arms, rev. train in landscape, 26mm, integral suspension loop, good very fine and extremely fine (2) £30-40

408 Sport, Rowing, The Metropolitan Amateur Regatta, 406 Religion, copper Gothic roundel, with the letters established 1866, silver prize medal “Junior Eight IHC, of uncertain age, 35mm, poor, stained and Oared Challenge Cup”, by Messrs Pinches, city somewhat corroded £20-30 arms over crossed oars, rev. decorated amphora, IHC (and HIS) are Romanised abbreviations from the 57mm, in maroon case of issue, virtually as struck, Greek, of the first three letters of the name ‘Jesus’. attractively toned £80-100 images reduced 409 Sport, Kuwait, Amateur Fencing Association, struck bronze shield, badge of the association with crossed swords, KAFA below, 66mm x 46mm, suspension loop, very fine, stained £30-40 412 World War I, France – United States of America, 410 Sport, World War II, bronze sporting medal, Egypt, Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924, President 1913- Greece and Turkey, 1940, by Fuchs, crowned 1921), America Joins the War, French bronze Egyptian shield, with flags of Turkey and Greece, medal, 1917, by René Gregoire (1871-1945), bust rev. AU PROFIT DU CROISSANT ROUGE ... CROIX three-quarters left, rev. figure of America, rifle in ROUGE..., 47mm, extremely fine £60-80 hand, is greeted by Britannia and Marianne, who beckons towards a distant Paris, 68mm (Maier 248; CGMP III, p.195, B), nearly extremely fine £70-80

WORLD ORDERS, MEDALS AND DECORATIONS

411 Sporting Awards, Swimming (2), rectangular bronze plaquette, swimmer reaches for pool edge, NSR in cartouche, rev. spread olive and laurel, Japanese legends, 40.5mm x 61mm; and a Bronze Medal, more recent, 60.5mm, both about extremely fine (2) £50-70 images reduced The first very much modelled on the Charpentier , Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd Class with plaquette made for the medallists Duval-Janvier, with a 413 Austria muscular male figure working a coining press. swords, post December 1916-1918, very fine £80-120

images reduced 414 Austria, Gold Merit Cross Crown, Viribus Unitis – 1849, WWI period, makers mark to ring, on original ribbon, enamel replaced to one arm on obverse, lacking enamel to one arm on reverse, chipping to enamel on reverse and central “1849” central disk loose in mount, toned, good £75-100

416 Finland, World War Two Medal of Liberty, 2nd Class, dated 1939, for the Russian Winter War of 1939-40, very fine, on original ribbon and pin; Order of the White Rose of Finland, Medal of the order, 1st Class, hallmarks to rim E8 (1982), fine, toned;Liberty Cross, 4th Class, with swords, 1941 issue, very fine; World War Two Medal of Liberty, 2nd Class, dated 1941, very fine on original ribbon and pin (4) £50-70

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415 Belgium, Croix de Guerre; and Civic Medal, 2nd Class, dark blue ribbon, both very fine;Bulgaria, The

Medal for the Patriotic War 1944-1945, on original 417 Finland, Knight of the Order of the White Rose ribbon, fine, toned; Czechoslovakia, Medal for Service breast badge in silver and enamels, hallmark to ring to the Homeland, silver hallmark to reverse, original O7 (1967), very fine; Order of the White Rose of ribbon, instituted in 1955 to reward meritorious Finland, Medal of the order, 1st Class, hallmarks to service to the Czech state, fine, toned; WW1 War rim E8 (1982), toned; Switzerland, Swiss National Cross, with rare linden leaf citation denoting a unit Donation Commemorative Medal for soldiers and citation at Army level and a Bronze Star denoting their families, signed Hans Frei, 1919 (Hans Frei, an individual commendation at Divisional level, very Swiss Sculptor - 1868-1947), toned, very fine, lacking fine, toned, on original ribbon (5) £30-50 ribbon (3) £50-70 421 Poland, Order of Polonia Restituta, 1944, Knight’s Cross, 44mm x 53mm (including suspension), in bronze gilt and enamels, in original red crested box of issue; and Officer’s Cross with rosette, 61mm x 68mm (including suspension), in bronze gilt and enamels, both extremely fine, box of first slightly worn at corners (2) £75-100

418 France, The Order of Merit, Commander, on full neck ribbon; French 1859 Italy Campaign Medal (Campagne D’Italie), made by Barre of Paris; Croix Du Combatant, signed “B.R.”, all very fine (3) £75-100

422 Poland, Cross of Merit, ‘PRL’, 42mm x 64mm (including suspension), in bronze gilt and enamels, tiny scuff to enamel, otherwise extremely fine £20-30

419 Germany, Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, War Veterans’ Decoration, 1909-1918, in bronze, with reverse pin for wear, about very fine, scarce £20-40

420 Iraq, Gulf War Medal 1991, very good, on original ribbon and pin; Police General Service Medal, King Faisal II 1939-58, very fine;Japan , Japanese Order of the Sacred 423 Russia, Order of St. Stanislaus, on ladies bow, very Treasure, 8th Class, toned, fine (3) £20-40 fine £150-200 424 Russia, Order of Honour (1988-94), numbered to 426 Serbia, The Order of St Sava, Officer’s 4th Class reverse (346149), early version, fine, slight rubbing to Breast Badge, c.1920-1930, 41mm x 72mm (including CCCP, rare £180-280 suspension), in silver, gilt and enamels, in original turquoise case of issue, made by Huguenin Frères & Co, of Le Locle, Switzerland, with worn and faded original ribbon, toned, very slightly bent lower finial point, otherwise good very fine and of good quality £180-200

427 Thailand, The Most Nobel Order of the Crown of Thailand, 4th Class Companion, the pendant similar to that of Class III, but smaller size, with additional silk rosette attached to the ribbon (Rian Ngoen Mongkit Thai), instituted 20 July 1902, very fine, on original ribbon with rosette £75-100

428 Turkey, Liyakat Medal, dated 1308 (1890), for Bravery, in silver, late issue (possibly WW1) on German type ribbon; Unofficial Patriotic Medals (2), crossed flags and Toughra, 27mm and 40mm, 425 Russia, Order of Glory, 3rd Class, numbered to dated 1324 (1906); Turkish Commemorative reverse (617407), low number, 1945 issue, toned, fine; Coin, 1922-1972, rev. a bayonet charge; Turkish Medal for a Veteran of the Armed Forces of the Independence Medal, dated 23 April 1920, bronze, USSR, instituted 1976, Breast Badge, modern ring possibly an official modern issue or a copy, all good and ribbon, scuffing to obverse, otherwise fine(2) £40-60 to fine (6) £50-70 429 Turkey, Order of the Mejidie, 5th Class, very fine, no damage to enamel; Turkish War Medal, instituted by King Vittorio Emanuele III in November 1912, rev. GUERRA ITALO-TURCA 1911-12, toned, very fine, on original ribbon (2) £120-160

432 United Nations, Korea Medal, Dutch issue, good; 430 United Kingdom, British War Medal, 1914-1920 Dutch Cross For Right and Freedom, sword clasp, (97706 Gnr. J. Bell. R.A.); officially impressed, a Korea 1950, very fine, court mounted for wear by Fa. V. few light marks, very fine, toned £20-30 Welik N: Einde 9 Den Haag; Dutch Cross For Right and Freedom, sword clasp, Korea 1950, very fine with rd 97706 Gunner Joseph Bell, of the 83 Company, Royal pin mount; United Nations Korea Medal, Dutch issue, Garrison Artillery, died in Hong Kong 12 October 1919, good; United Nations Korea Medal, Turkish issue, at the age of 18. Sold with copy MIC, CWGC report and a quantity of research. good, rare; United Nations Korea Medal, Ethiopian issue, good; Ethiopian Korea Medal, white metal, good condition; United Nations Korea Medal, French issue, good; French Medal for Korea, very fine;United Nations Korea Medal, Greek issue, very good; United 431 United Kingdom, 1939/45 Star, France & Nations Korea Medal, USA issue, GRACO-GI pin, Germany Star, 1939-45 Defence Medal, 1939- very fine; United Nations Korea Medal, Philippines 45 War Medal, swing mounted on bar, F&G Star issue, Tagalog issue by “El Ro” Military Jeweller heavily toned, otherwise fine; London County Council Jose J.Tupaz Jr. Quezon City Philippines, fine, rare; Attendance Medal, awarded to (R.Wickington), Australian Active Service Medal, Korea clasp, with 1912-13 clasp, very fine; Queen Victoria stamped to rear (Replica by Rainbow), unnamed, Diamond Jubilee Commemorative Medal, on new; United Nations Korea Medal, Spanish issue, tartan ribbon with 1837-97 VR and crown device type 2, very fine; Belgian War Volunteer Combatants to ribbon, fine, medal slightly bent; London County Medal for Korea, very fine; Belgian Korean War Council (L.C.C.), The King’s Medal for Attendance Medal, two clasps, Haktang-Ni and Imjin, very fine; & Conduct, two clasps, one with laurel leaves the United Nations Korea Medal, South Korea issue, other 1914-15. (L. Napper), toned, fine; Royal Naval very fine; Sweden, WW1 Meritorious Service Medal Temperance Society, 3 Year Medal, with ‘Three- for the Red Cross Volunteers, 1914-1918, Silver Year’ top riband bar, silver and enamel, bronze and Class, Gustav V issue, named (H. Brismark 1950), enamel (RNTS.4), nearly very fine (8) £20-40 very fine; United Nations Medal for Korea, British issue, good (18) £700-800 MISCELANEOUS 437 Bank of England, £1 (4), undated (c.1967), serial nos. E89Y 220628, N03M 406933, R10M 491537, R11B 819874, signed by Fforde, and 10-Shillings (6), Beale (4), including 94B 532772, Fforde (2), including replacement note M60 012894 (Dugg B303, 308, 306, 265, 266, 309, 311), generally about very fine to good extremely fine(10) £50-70

438 Bank of England, 10-shillings (220), undated (c.1967), complete blocks of consecutive serial nos.C29N 825401-825500 and C29N 826701- 826800, with various B24N prefixes, includes some consecutive numbers, signed by Fforde (Dugg B310), generally about uncirculated to uncirculated, some with minor foxing (220) £300-500

World Banknotes

439 Bosnia and Herzegovina, Narodna Banka Bosne Hercegovine, 500-Dinara and 1000-Dinara, 1992, 433 An Assortment of Ribbons and a group of 500-Dinara, 100-Dinara (3), 1000-Dinara (2), Foreign Medals (5); Swedish Breast Star, makers 5000-Dinara (3), 1992 (P 1-9), and other modern mark VANS, Authentics 2439 to reverse; Pin Back Bosnia and Herzegovina notes (approx 85), 1992- Badge, by DARCO, Paris, numbered H137; Flying 1998, almost no duplication, generally uncirculated Eagle Pin Badge, unmarked, generally fine, the ribbons (lot) £80-120 very fine (lot) £40-60

BANKNOTES AND PAPER MONEY 440 Ceylon, Government of Ceylon, 25-Cents (3), 1 February 1942, 1 March 1947, 1 June 1948, serial nos. A1 074026, A54 886436 and A59 117806; British Banknotes 50-Cents (2), 1 June 1948, 1 December 1949, serial nos.A42 165331 and A50 798225; Rupee (2), 20 434 British Cheques (3), £20, 5 February 1824, December 1941, 7 May 1946, serial nos.A12 144453 London, for Brown, Janson and Company, 32 and A71 134446 (Pick 44, 45, 34), about very fine to Abchurch Lane, signature cross-cancelled; £45, 7 very fine; with a group of world banknotes (22), th July 1778, for Gosling, Clive & Gosling, 19 Fleet various countries, mostly late 20 Century, generally Stree, payable to “Mrs Hudleston”, signature cross- about uncirculated (29) £150-200 cancelled; unissued Banbury Old Bank Cheque for Cobb, Wheatly & Cobb, 18th century, generally good 441 Greece, Bank of Greece, 5000-drachmai, undated very fine, scarce(3) £30-50 (1947), serial no.M01 000001-M05 1,00,000, purple and orange, mother and children at centre, rev. 435 Bank of England, £1 (10), blue, undated (c.1940), purple, allegorical women and Pegasus, perforated including serial no.H10E 668977, signed by Peppiatt SPECIMEN (Pick 177), uncirculated, numbers and date (Dugg B249), generally good fine to about very fine (10) top margin, rare £700-900 £50-70 442 New Zealand, Bank of New Zealand, £5, 19--, 436 Bank of England, £1 (10), blue, undated (c.1940), Wellington, serial no.620001-640000, black, white including serial nos. A48E 749897 and B64H and brown, Maoris and pastoral scene at left, 108068, signed by Peppiatt (Dugg B249), generally perforated SPECIMEN (Pick S192), uncirculated, good fine to about very fine (10) £50-70 with counterfoil £1000-1500 End of Sale