Ancient, Islamic, British and World Coins Historical Medals Banknotes and Share Certificates

To be sold by auction at:

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Thursday 11th December 2003 10.30 am and 2.00 pm

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Monday 8th December 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Tuesday 9th December 10.00 am to 4.30 pm Wednesday 10th December 10.00 am to 4.30 pm

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Catalogue no. 6 Price £10

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Cover illustrations: Lot 332 (front); Lot 518 (back)

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Thursday 11th December 2003

Starting at 10.30 am

Ancient Coins lots 1-111 Islamic Coins lots 112-319

Starting at 2.00 pm

Nobles and Continental Imitations lots 320-369 A Collection of Five-Guinea Pieces lots 370-393 Other British Gold Coins lots 394-436 English Silver and Bronze Coins lots 437-482 Tokens lots 483-486 Drawings lot 487 Scottish and Irish Coins lots 488-498 Coin Cup, Scales and Gold Changer lots 499-501 Historical Medals and Plaquettes lots 502-517 Australasian Coins and Medals lots 518-535 World Gold Coins lots 536-567 A Collection of the Coins of Geneva lots 568-584 World Silver and Bronze Coins lots 585-626 Banknotes and Bonds lots 627-652

Friday 12th December 2003

10.30 am and 2.00 pm

War Medals, Orders and Decorations (see separate catalogue)

The condition of most of the coins and medals in this catalogue is described by the use of conventional numismatic terms. For an explanation of these expressions or for any further information, clients are invited to contact us directly. GREEK COINS

10 Kings of Macedonia, Alexander III, drachms (5); together with similar drachms of Philip III (2) and Lysimachus of Thrace (1), very fine to about extremely fine (8) £400-500 1 Danubian Celts, tetradrachm in imitation of types of Philip III of Macedon, 18.06 g. (Allen/Nash 67), unusually high weight, very fine £100-150

2 Italy, didrachms of Neapolis and Metapontum; together with hemidrachms of Abdera, Thasos, Sicyon, Achaean League issues of Aegion (2) and Elis; and early diobol of Metapontum, last damaged, mainly fine to very fine (9) £150-200 11 Kings of Macedonia, Antigonus Gonatus, 277-239 BC, tetradrachm, head of Pan on shield, rev., Athena Alcidemus, 3 17.04 g. (SNG Berry 355), very fine £200-250 Italy, didrachms of Metapontum, Thurium (2) and Velia; and Corinthian stater, fine (5) £120-150

4 Siculo-Punic, tetradrachm, c. 300 BC, head of Heracles right, rev., horse’s head, obv. off centre, very fine; Syracuse, Corinthian style stater of Agathocles, good fine (2) £300-350

12 Kings of Macedonia, Antigonus Doson, 229-221 BC, tetradrachm, bearded head of Poseidon right, rev., Apollo seated on prow, examining bow, 17.06 g. (SNG Berry 361- 5 70), very fine £400-500 Macedonia, Acanthus, tetradrachm, c. 400 BC, lion attacking bull; swastika above, rev., inscription around quadripartite incuse square, 13.89 g. (Desneux -), some pitting, very fine £800-1,000

6 Kings of Macedonia, Alexander III, 336-323 BC, tetradrachms (2, one test cut) and drachms (2); Philip III, tetra- 13 drachms (2); under the Romans, First Region, tetra- Attica, Athens, tetradrachm, after 449 BC, head of Athena drachm; Aesillas, Quaestor, tetradrachm, some fine or better right, rev., owl, 16.87 g., granular surfaces, about extremely (8) £300-400 fine £400-500

7 Kings of Macedonia, Alexander III, tetradrachms (6), lifetime or early posthumous issues, mainly fine or better (6) £300-400

8 Kings of Macedonia, Alexander III, posthumous 14 tetradrachms (7) of Alabanda, two with obv. countermarks, Attica, Athens, tetradrachm, similar to the last, 17.04 g., mainly fine (7) £250-300 granular surfaces, good very fine £400-500

9 15 Kings of Macedonia, Alexander III, posthumous Attica, Athens, tetradrachms (5), 5th-4th cent. BC, Athena tetradrachms of Temnus (Price 1688) and Aspendus (3, head, rev., owl, one with rev. test mark, mainly fine or countermarked), about very fine to very fine (4) £250-300 slightly better (5) £250-300 22 Ionia, uncertain mints, Milesian standard, 650-550 BC, forty-eighth staters (2), 0.29 g., 0.28 g., first with lion scalp/scorpion (Weidauer 170), the other with uncertain types; and ninety-sixth staters (3), two with scallop 16 shell/incuse, the other uncertain, 0.16 g., 0.13 g., 0.12 g., Kings of Bithynia, Prusias I, 228-185 BC, tetradrachm, mainly very fine (5) £300-500 diademed head right, rev., Zeus standing left, crowning king’s name; to left, thunderbolt and two monograms, 16.92 23 g. (BMC 2), very fine and rare £800-1,000 Ionia, Clazomenae, Æ 18 mm., 4th cent. BC., facing head of Athena, rev., ram (BMC 59), good very fine; other Greek bronzes (7) including Syracuse (2), Lysimachus of Thrace, Seleucid Syria (3); Roman colonial, miscellaneous bronzes (19) including issues of Side (2), Antioch (6), Cyprus, Neapolis (Samaria, M. Aurelius, SNG ANS 968), 17 Philadelphia (2, Decapolis, Hadrian, L. Verus, ANS 1385, Mysia, Cyzicus, electrum hecte, 450-400 BC, head of 1392) etc.; with late Roman (2) and Byzantine (9) bronzes, Ammon right with ram’s horn and ear, rev., quadripartite many fine, a few better (38) £250-300 incuse square, 2.67 g. (cf. von Fritze pl. IV, 16 for stater and Leu 77, 262 for hemihecte), type previously unrecorded as a 24 hecte, well centred and about extremely fine £1,500-2,000 Ionia, Ephesus, diobol (BMC 53); Ionia, Miletus, diobol (BMC 34) and drachm (BMC 119 var.); Caria, Pixodarus, 18 trihemiobol (BMC 15); Pisidia, Selge, trihemiobol; with Mysia, Pergamum, Attalus I, 241-197 BC, tetradrachms denarius of Trajan and colonial bronze of Severus Alexander (4); and Syrian tetradrachm of Antiochus II, some corroded, of Ephesus, some very fine (7) £200-250 mainly fine (5) £150-200

19 Cistophori (4), mid 2nd cent. BC., of Pergamum, symbol thyrsus (Kleiner series 24a), Ephesus, symbol Nike (Kleiner 23), Tralles, symbol tripod (Kleiner 23) and Apameia, symbol elephant head (Kleiner 23), very fine or slightly better (4) £200-300 25 Ionia, Teos, stater, c. 480 BC, griffin seated right (both 20 forelegs on the ground); club before, rev., quadripartite Cistophori (4), mid 2nd cent. BC., of Pergamum, symbol incuse square, 11.84 g. (Balcer 25; BMC 2), very fine and thyrsus (Kleiner series 24a), Ephesus, symbol eagle (Kleiner rare £400-500 25), Tralles, symbol tripod (Kleiner 23) and Apameia, symbol elephant head (Kleiner 23), very fine or slightly 26 th better (4) £200-300 Lydia, electrum twelfth stater, 6 cent. BC, pre-Croesus, lion’s head right, rev., incuse square, 1.16 g. (BMC 17), very fine; Ionia, electrum twenty-fourth stater, lion’s scalp, rev., incuse square, 0.58 g. (SNG von Aulock 1803), about fine (2) £300-350

21 Troas, Alexandria Troas, double-siglos, early 3rd cent BC, 27 laureate head of Apollo right, rev., ǹȁǼȄǹȃ-ǻȇǼȍȃ, th horse grazing right; below, Ȉǿ and corn grain, 10.62 g. Lydia, gold daric, mid 4 cent. BC, king kneeling right with (Triton VI, 323, this piece), good very fine, with traces of an spear and bow, rev., oblong incuse, 8.29 g. (Carradice pl. unclear undertype on the reverse, unpublished and 15, 50), good fine £500-600 apparently unique £2,500-3,000 28 th th This issue must be associated with the two silver coins listed by Lydia, sigloi (6), 5 -4 cent. BC, one plated; together with Bellinger (A123 and A124 – Paris and Oxford respectively), in Greek silver of Byzantium, Parium, Colchis, Miletus, particular the latter which bears the same ethnic and symbol below Rhodes (5), Phoenicia (7, one plated) and Nabataea, mainly the horse. Bellinger called them hemidrachms but their weights fair to fine, some better (23) £250-300 (2.35 and 2.41 g.) show them to be Persian half-sigloi. Bellinger dated them to the period of 228-190 BC whereas they are much more likely to be associated with the copper coinage of the same types issued earlier in the 3rd century (as Bellinger A28ff.). 29 36 Lycia, tetrobol in the name of Trbbenimi, lion’s scalp, rev., Cilicia, Tarsus, Datames, stater, similar to previous lot triskeles; trihemiobols (2), in the names of Vedevie and (SNG France 258), very fine; Mazaeus, 361-344 BC, stater, Perikle, lion attacking bull, rev., facing Athena head; and later Baal seated left, rev., lion attacking bull left; corn-ear and drachms (2) of Masikytes, mainly very fine (5) £200-300 monogram below (cf. Hunt IV, 619), obv. weak, rev. extremely fine (2) £250-300 30 Pamphylia, Perge, tetradrachm, 3rd cent. BC, head of Artemis, rev., Artemis standing (SNG von Aulock 4656); Side, tetradrachm, 2nd cent. BC (SNG von Aulock 4796), with anchor countermark; Cilicia, Celenderis, stater, horseman left, rev., goat left looking back; club below (cf. SNG Berry 1258 var.), mainly fine to very fine (3) £250-300

37 Kings of Syria, Antiochus II, 261-246 BC, tetradrachm, Antioch, head right, rev., Apollo seated, 16.92 g. (WSM 970), cleaned, very fine £120-150 31 Cilicia, Celenderis, stater, c. 420 BC, rider vaulting from horse left; below horse, A, rev., goat kneeling left, ivy leaf attached to tail, 10.78 g. (Kraay 4c = SNG Berry 1259, this coin), good very fine £300-350

Ex Burton Y. Berry collection. 38 Kings of Syria, Antiochus II or Antiochus Hierax, tetradrachm, Phocaea, head right, rev., Apollo seated; below, seal, 16.85 g. (WSM 1509, pl. 66, 7), cleaned, very fine and rare £150-200

32 39 Cilicia, Issus, stater, under Tiribazus, 386-380 BC, Baal Kings of Syria, Antiochus VII, 138-129 BC, tetradrachms standing left, rev., Ahuramazda facing, head to right, (9), Tyre mint; Demetrius II, 2nd reign, 129-125 BC, holding wreath and lotus flower, 10.74 g. (SNG von Aulock tetradrachms (3), Tyre, fine or better (12) £350-400 5601), cleaned, good very fine £250-300 40 Ex Sotheby’s Zurich, October 1993, lot 767. Kings of Syria, Seleucus VI, 95-94 BC, tetradrachm, Antioch, head right, rev., Zeus seated left (SNG Spaer 2772 33 var.), very fine; Demetrius III, 95-88 BC, tetradrachm, Cilicia, Mallus, stater, head of Aphrodite right, rev., head of Damascus, rev., cultus statue of Atargatis, about very fine satrap right (SNG Levante 151), obv. with test cut, good very but corroded, rare; and tetradrachm of Antiochus VII, fine; fine; Soli, stater, bearded male head right, rev., head of satrap Egypt, tetradrachms of Ptolemy I and II (Sv. pl. IX, 13 and right (SNG France 163), rev. weak, very fine (2) £300-400 24), fine to very fine (5) £250-300

41 34 Kings of Syria, Tigranes II of Armenia, 83-69 BC, Cilicia, Mallus, stater, similar to previous lot (SNG Levante tetradrachm (1) and bronzes (17), poor to fine; other 151); Nagidus, stater (SNG Levante 8); Tarsus, stater Seleucid bronzes (10, identified), good fine; Roman, denarii (SNG Levante 60; SNG France 215), and staters under (15, including Augustus) and miscellaneous base metal (40), Pharnabazus and Mazaeus (SNG France 251, 347), last with some fine (83) £250-300 two punch marks, mainly fine or better (5) £150-200

35 42 Cilicia, Tarsus, Datames, 369-360 BC, stater, facing head Phoenicia, Sidon, dishekel, early 4th cent. BC, war-galley to of Arethusa, rev., bearded and helmeted head right (SNG left, rev., King of Persia in chariot left, 27.97 g. (Betlyon France 273), obverse off centre, very fine £150-200 16), almost very fine £200-300 43 Phoenicia, Sidon, dishekels (5), 4th cent. BC, galley, rev., chariot, four with test marks, some corrosion, fair to good fine (5) £200-300

53 Phoenicia, Tyre, half-shekel, year 159, AD 33/34, 6.09 g. (RPC 4693), good fine/fine [struck in the ‘traditional’ year of the Crucifixion] £200-300

54 44 Phoenicia, Tyre, contemporary barbarous imitations of shekels Phoenicia, Tyre, shekel, head of Melqarth right, rev., eagle (5) and half shekels (3 – all from the same obverse die), fine to on prow, year 96, 31/30 BC, 14.23 g. (RPC 4632), patch of good very fine, an interesting group (8) £250-350 staining on obverse, almost extremely fine £120-150

45 Phoenicia, Tyre, shekels (4), similar to the last, years 78, 83, 92, 96, AD 49/48, 44/43, 35/34, 31/30 (RPC -, 4622, 55 4629, 4632), fine to almost very fine (4) £180-220 Phoenicia (?), uncertain mint, half-siglos, helmeted head of Athena right, rev., owl standing right, head facing; with 46 two unclear letters in left field, 2.63 g., about very fine and Phoenicia, Tyre, shekel, with KAP monogram on reverse, apparently unpublished £150-200 year 110, 17/16 BC; other shekels (5), all with KP on reverse, years 127, 129, 143, 145, 146, AD 1/2, 3/4, 17/18, 19/20, 20/21 (RPC 4650A, 4651, 4656, 4658, 4659), very good to almost very fine (6) £300-400

47 56 Phoenicia, Tyre, shekels (5), all with KP on reverse, years Philisto-Arabian coinage, Ashdod, drachm, c. 350 BC, 145, 160, 161, 162, 176, AD 19/20, 34/35, 35/36, 36/37, bearded male head left, rev., owl standing right with head 50/51 (RPC 4658, 4664, 4665, 4666, 4675), very good to facing, 3.34 g. (cf. Leu 54, 1992, 179 = Brindlay 611; cf. good fine (5) £200-300 Leu 83, 2002, 254), good fine and very rare £300-500

57 Philisto-Arabian coinage, uncertain mint, drachm, 4th cent. 48 BC, male head right, rev, lion to left over ram’s head, 3.32 g. Phoenicia, Tyre, shekel, year 159, AD 33/34, 14.01 g. (BMC 24), test cut on rev., about fine, very rare £200-300 (RPC 4663), almost very fine [struck in the “traditional” year of the Crucifixion] £250-300 58 Judaea, Pontius Pilate, AD 26-36, bronze prutah (22), 49 comprising barley type (10) and lituus type (12), fine or Phoenicia, Tyre, shekels (6), all with KP on reverse, years 161, slightly better (22) £200-300 162, 163, 176, 180, AD 35/36, 36/37, 37/38, 50/51, 54/55 (RPC 4665, 4666, 4667, 4675, 4678), and date illegible, this 59 very good, others fine to almost very fine (6) £250-350 Babylonia, tetradrachms (6), c. 311-280 BC, Baal seated left, rev., lion walking left, some corrosion, mainly fine (6) £250-300 50 Phoenicia, Tyre, half-shekel, AD 25/6,; with drachms of Cappadocia (2), Syria; hemidrachms of Miletus and Rhodes, 60 fine or better (6) £100-150 Parthia, Phraatakes, c. 2 BC – AD 4, tetradrachm, year 310 (Sell. 56.3); Mithradates II, drachm (Sell. 26.1); later 51 Parthian drachms (8), fine to very fine (10) £120-150 Phoenicia, Tyre, half-shekels (4), years 33, 34, 45, 90 (94/93, 93/92, 82/81 and 37/36 BC), fine to very fine (4) £150-200 61 Parthia, tetradrachms (7) of Phraatakes, year 310 (S. 56.3), 52 Artabanus II (S. 61), Vardanes I, year 353 (S. 64.9), Phoenicia, Tyre, half-shekels (6), all with KP on reverse, Gotarzes II, year 357 (S. 65.4), Vologases I (2, S. 68.9 and years 146, 162, 163, 170, 181, 184, AD 20/21, 36/37, 37/38, 70.5) and Vologases IV, year 464 (S. 84.13), mainly fine to 44/45, 55/56, 58/59 (RPC 4691, 4695, 4695A, 4701A, very fine; Characene, base tetradrachms (4) of Attambelos 4686B, 4705), fine to very fine (6) £200-300 III, fine (11) £250-300 62 70 Parthia, Artabanus II, c. AD 10-38, tetradrachm, AD Bactria, tetradrachms (4) comprising Demetrius I (Mitch 22/23 (S. 62.3), rev. off centre, about very fine; Pacorus II, 103c), Eukratides I (2, Mitch 177) and Apollodotus II (Mitch tetradrachm, AD 77/78 (S. 73.4), very fine (2) £200-250 423a), first three with corrosion/tooling, mainly very fine (4) £500-600 63 Sasanian, Ardashir I, 224-241, billon tetradrachm (Göbl 7) and obol (Göbl 12, slight edge damage); Elymais, Kamnaskires VI (?), billon tetradrachm (S. 5888); Bosporus and Pontus, uncertain mint, Ae 27 mm., head left in cap, rev., star; with three countermarks (SNG BM 973), mainly very fine (4) £150-200 71 India, Kushans, Kanishka I, c. 232-260, gold dinar, king standing left, rev., Mao, the moon god standing left, 8.02 g. 64 (Göbl 76), good very fine £300-400 Sasanian, Ardashir I, drachm, bust right wearing turreted crown, rev., fire-altar behind ceremonial table, 3.41 g. (Göbl 14), evenly clipped and old scrapes on bust, good fine and toned, scarce £60-80

72 India, Kushans, Kanishka I, Æ unit, king standing left, rev., standing figure of Buddha, facing, 16.44 g. (Göbl 785), 65 fine and very rare £400-500 Sasanian, Shapur I, 241-272, drachm, bust right in crown without ear-flaps, rev., fire-altar and attendants, 4.50 g. (Göbl 30), very fine and rare £180-220

66 Sasanian, drachms (11) of Shapur I, Varhran I, Hormazd II, 73 Shapur II (2), Ardashir II, Shapur III, Yazdgard I, Zamasp India, Kushans, Huvishka, c. 260-292, gold dinar, bust of and Ardashir III (2), mainly fine to very fine (11) £200-300 king left on clouds, rev., standing figures of Skando Komaro and Bizago, 7.64 g. (Göbl 156/1), edge with slight traces of mounting, about very fine and a very rare variety £1,000-1,500

74 India, late Kushans, Pakanadha, late 4th cent., gold dinar, king left, rev., Ardoksho seated (Göbl 596; Mitch. Kipanada 67 3584), about extremely fine £100-120 Sasanian, Shapur II, 309-379, gold dinar, crowned bust right, rev., fire altar, 7.19 g. (Göbl 1309), very fine £600-800 75 Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy I - III, tetradrachms (20), mainly with corrosion, fair to fine, some better (20) £300-350 68 Sasanian, drachms of Varhran V (6), Peroz (40), Kavad I (1), Khusru I (6), Hormazd IV (2), Khusru II (58); together 76 with Parthian drachms (8), Persid hemidrachm and modern Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy I - III, tetradrachms (21), two copies (2), many very fine (124) £600-800 plated, mainly with corrosion, fair to fine, some better (20) £250-300

77 Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy III, 246-221 BC, Æ 41 mm., head of Zeus, rev., eagle, very fine; Æ drachm of Hadrian and late billon tetradrachms (8); together with antoniniani etc. (53), mainly fine or better (62) £180-220

78 69 Kings of Egypt, Ptolemy V, 204-180 BC, tetradrachms (2, Bactria, Eucratides I, c. 171-145 BC, tetradrachm, diademed Sv. pl. 40, 2), some corrosion, about very fine; late bust right, rev., the Dioscuri riding right, 16.90 g. (Mitch 168c; Ptolemaic, tetradrachms (10), very fine; others similar (10), Bop. Series 1, F), about extremely fine £600-800 one pierced, one plated, some corroded, fine (22) £350-400 79 80 Cyrenaica, Cyrene, didrachm, 308-277 BC, head of Aksumite, Ebana, gold unit, bust right wearing tiara, rev., Carneius left, rev., silphium plant flanked by coiled serpent bust right wearing headcloth, 1.47 g. (MH/JJ 71), good fine and monogram, 7.51 g. (BMC 244ff), some edge corrosion, £100-150 otherwise very fine £200-300

ROMAN AND BYZANTINE COINS

81 85 Brutus, denarius, 43-42 BC, axe, simpulum and knife, rev., jug Vespasian, 69-79, sestertius, laureate head right, rev., IVDAEA and lituus, 3.97 g. (Cr. 500/7; Syd. 1310), toned, good very fine CAPTA S C, emperor standing beside palm tree and mourning £300-400 Jewess (RIC 427; C. 239), brown patina, good fine £150-200

‡82 86 Pompey, denarius, 42-40 BC, struck under Sextus Pompey, Nerva, 96-98, as, laureate head right, rev., CONCORDIA head right, rev., Neptune and the Catanean brothers, 3.64 g. (Cr. EXERCITVVM S C, clasped hands (RIC 79; C. 21), good very 511/3a), irregular edge, toned, about extremely fine £300-400 fine with green patina £180-220

83 Mark Antony, denarius, CHORTIS PRAETORIARUM type (Cr. 544/8), flan laminated and cracked, about very fine; with miscellaneous denarii (15), Republic to Severan period; and 87 Byzantine billon aspron trachy of Alexius I (S. 1918), fine, Pertinax, 193, posthumous denarius struck by Septimius some better (17) £200-250 Severus, bare head right, rev., eagle on globe, 2.62 g. (RIC 24A; C. 6; BMC 37), faint flan crack and flan lamination behind bust, otherwise very fine and rare £500-600

84 Nero, 54-68, aureus, as Caesar struck under Claudius, young draped bust left, rev., simpulum, lituus, tripod and 88 patera, 7.55 g. (RIC 76; C. 311; BMC 84), one small edge Gordian II, 238, sestertius, laureate bust right, rev., Virtus file mark, other surface marks, about very fine £700-900 standing left (RIC 8; C. 15), only about fine, rare £100-150 89 96 Balbinus, 238, antoninianus, rev., FIDES MVTVA AVGG, Leo I, semissis, Constantinople, D N LEO PE – RPET AVG, clasped hands (RIC 11; C. 6), some light scratches, good diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, rev., VICTORIA very fine £180-220 AVGG, Victory seated right inscribing shield XVXXX, star in left field, Christogram in right field, in ex., CONOB, 2.21 g. (RIC 608), minor marks on obverse, about extremely fine £150-200

97 90 Denarii (19), including a brockaged Republican issue of L. Galerius, as Caesar, 293-305, argenteus, Siscia, laureate Memmius (cf. Cr. 304/1 obv.); together with Tarentum head right, rev., four princes before eight-turretted camp stater, antoniniani (4), bronzes (8), cast copies (7) and gate, 3.10 g. (RIC 44b), faint flan crack, slight scuff on shilling of Elizabeth I, some fine or better (40) £200-250 reverse, about extremely fine £150-200

98 Denarii (60), comprising Nero (1), Vitellius (2), Vespasian (3), Titus (5), Domitian (1), Nerva (5), Trajan (4, including two of Trajan’s column), Hadrian (11, including Africa (2), Egypt, Hispania, Nilus (2) reclining), Sabina (6), Aelius (1), 91 Antoninus Pius (5), Faustina I (1), Faustina II (3), Lucius Constantius II, 337-361, solidus, Nicomedia, 351-355, Verus (1), Lucilla (4), Commodus (1), Crispina (4), rev., GLORIA – REI – PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis Caracalla (2), mainly fine, some better and several scarce enthroned, holding shield inscribed VOT / XX / MVLT / XXX, varieties (60) £1,000-1,200 in ex., SMNC, 4.46 g. (RIC 74), scratch before bust, almost extremely fine £300-400

99 Denarii (5), of Vespasian (rev., Judaea), Sabina, Antoninus Pius (rev., head of Marcus Aurelius), Divus Antoninus Pius, and Marcus Aurelius (rev., Germania mourning), fine or slightly better (5) £100-120 92 Constantius II, 337-361, solidus, Thessalonica, 351-355, 100 laurel and rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right, Justinian I, 527-565, solidus, Constantinople, rev., angel rev., GLORIA – REI – PVBLICAE, Roma and Constantinopolis holding staff surmounted by Christogram (S. 140), and enthroned, holding shield inscribed VOT / XXX / MVLT / XXXX, tremisses (2) (S. 145), very fine and better, one tremissis 4.25 g. (RIC 154), graffiti on obverse, almost very fine and a with graffiti (3) £150-200 scarce variety £200-250

93 101 Valens, 364-378, solidus, Antioch mint, bust right, rev., Tiberius II Constantine, 578-582, solidus, Constantinople, emperor standing, some graffiti, fine to very fine £80-120 rev., cross potent on four steps, officina H (S. 422), very fine; Phocas, 602-610, solidus, Constantinople, rev., 94 Victory, officina Ĭ (S. 618), some graffiti, good very fine; Theodosius II, 408-450, solidi (2), Constantinople, both Constans II/Constantine IV, tremissis, Constantinople (S. rev., Constantinopolis enthroned, varieties with legends VOT 984), fine/very fine (3) £200-250 XXX – MVLT XXXX B and IMP XXXXII COS – XVII PP, 4.42, 4.26 g. (RIC 257, 324), good fine to very fine (2) £150-200 102 95 Maurice Tiberius, 582-602, solidi (4), all Constantinople, Leo I, 457-474, solidi (2), Constantinople, rev., Victory types with crowned bust (1), and bust with plumed helmet supporting long cross, star in right field, officinae A and S, 4.46, (3 – varieties with I in field [1] and with fields plain [2]) (S. 4.47 g. (RIC 605), both weakly struck on emperor’s face, 477, 479, 478 [2]), very fine to about extremely fine, the first otherwise about extremely fine with some lustre (2) £250-300 scarce (4) £300-400 107 Basil II, 976-1025, histamenon nomisma, nimbate bust of Christ, rev., Basil and Constantine VIII holding long patriarchal cross (S. 1796), plugged, very fine; Constantine IX, histamenon nomisma, nimbate bust of Christ, rev., bust of emperor holding long cross and globus cruciger (S. 103 1830), scrape on obverse and possibly flattened, very fine; Heraclius, 610-641, solidus, Constantinople, facing busts of Constantine X, histamenon nomisma, Christ enthroned, Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine wearing plain crowns, rev., emperor standing holding labarum and globus cruciger cross in field, rev., cross potent on three steps, N in right field, (S. 1847), very fine; Isaac II, electrum aspra trachea (2), in ex., CONOB (S. 741A; MIB 13), some weakness in obverse varities with and without decoration on Virgin’s throne (S. legend, otherwise almost extremely fine and scarce £120-150 2002), good very fine (5) £300-400

108 Isaac I, 1057-1059, histamenon nomisma, Christ enthroned, rev., emperor standing holding labarum and resting left hand on sword in sheath, 4.33 g. (S. 1843), good very fine £120-150 104 Heraclius, solidi (4), all Constantinople with busts of 109 Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine right, rev., cross potent Romanus IV, 1068-1071, histamena, Christ crowning on three steps, varieties with short beard and elaborate Romanus and Eudocia, rev., standing figures of the crowns, officina (S. 734); short beard and plain crowns, İ associate rulers (DO 1 and 2; S. 1859, 1861), second with officina S (S. 738); short beard and plain crowns, Ĭ obv. graffiti, very fine (2) £200-250 following officina İ (S. 742); and long beard, officina Ȣ retrograde (S. 749), very fine and better (4) £350-450 110 Romanus IV, 1068-1071, histamenon nomisma, Christ standing between Romanus and Eudocia, rev., the three sons of Constantine X (S. 1859); Michael VII, histamenon nomisma, bust of Christ, rev., Michael holding labarum and 105 globus cruciger (S. 1868); Manuel I, electrum aspron Heraclius, solidus, three standing figures, rev., cross on steps trachy, Christ standing on dais flanked by stars, rev., (S. 766); Michael VII, histamenon (S. 1868), extremely fine emperor and St Theodore (S. 1959); Andronicus II, (2) £200-250 hyperpyron, bust of the Virgin within city walls, rev., emperor kneeling before Christ (S. 2326), last with attempted piercing, very fine and better (4) £250-300

Ex 111 106 111 Basil I, 867-886, solidus, Christ enthroned, rev., facing Byzantine, lead issue, in imitation of an 8th century solidus, busts of Basil and Constantine (DO 2; S. 1704), good very facing bust, rev., cross potent on three steps, possibly a fine £200-300 contemporary copy from southern Italy, very fine and apparently unrecorded (illustrated); and a lead seal, fine (2) £80-120 ISLAMIC COINS

118 Eastern Sijistan Series, drachms (2), anonymous type with duriba bi-Zaranj in obverse margin, unclear countermark at 11 o’clock, 3.17 g. (Album A80 RRR), flan crack and hoard- stained, otherwise fine and very rare; anonymous with bismillah in obverse margin, without clear mint-name or date, surface deposits, almost very fine (2) £150-200 112 Arab-Sasanian, `Abdallah b. `Amir, drachm, GW (Qumm) 37YE, 2.41 g., chipped and hoard-stained, fine to good fine and extremely rare, apparently an unrecorded mint for this governor £100-150

113 Arab-Sasanian, drachms (3), `Abdallah b. `Amir, DAP (Fasa) 43YE, Salm b. Ziyad, SK (Sijistan) 56h, al-Muhallab b. Abi Sufra, BYŠ (Bishapur) 76h; with a Banijurid dirham 119 of Muhammad b. Ahmad, Taliqan 284h (Album 1433), this Eastern Sijistan Series, Misma`, drachm, 3.65 g. (Album fine, others very fine and better (4) £120-150 85 RR), some staining, very fine and rare £150-200

114 Arab-Sasanian, Mu`awiya b. Abi Sufyan, drachm, DA (Darabjird) 43YE, 3.89 g. (SICA I, 245), good very fine; `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, drachm, DA+P (Fasa) 60 YE, 3.62 g. (SICA I, 273ff), good fine (2) £120-150

115 Arab-Sasanian, `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, drachm, DA+P (Fasa) 60YE, 3.38 g. (SICA I, 273, same dies), very fine; al- Hajjaj b. Yusuf, drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 80h, 3.42 g. 120 (SICA I, 226 ff), about fine and scarce (2) £120-150 Eastern Sijistan Series, Qudama, drachm, 3.17 g. (Album 86 RR), two edge chips otherwise good very fine and rare £150-200

121 Eastern Sijistan Series, drachms (3) of Ishaq, Salih b. Ridha and uncertain governor, last two countermarked with lillah jayyid and an uncertain mark, stained but generally fine (3) £150-200

122 116 Eastern Sijistan Series, drachms (2), Salih b. Ridha and Arab-Sasanian, Àbd al-Àziz b. Àbdallah, drachm, Salih b. Ahmad, good fine (2) £150-200 TART (Tawwaj) 71h, 4.00 g. (Album 25 RR), very fine, the reverse better, rare £100-150 123 Eastern Sijistan Series, drachms (3), Salih b. Ridha (1) and 116A Salih... (2 – both with patronymics unclear), fair to fine, the Arab-Sasanian drachms (6): Ùbaydallah (without last two hoard-stained (3) £150-200 patronymic), HRA 56h (Walker p.74, O.7); Ùbaydallah b. Ziyad (3), BCRA 57h, 61h (SICA I, 52, 77ff); Àbdallah b. 124 Khazim, MRW 69 (?); al-Muhallab b. Abi Sufra, ART 76h Eastern Sijistan Series, drachm, anonymous with duriba bi- (SICA I, 35ff); Ùmar b. Ùbaydallah, ART 68h (SICA I, Zaranj in obverse margin, unclear countermark at 11 o’clock, 19ff), good fine to good very fine (6) £180-220 3.17 g. (Album A80 RRR), fine and very rare £150-200

117 125 Arab-Sasanian, al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf, drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) Eastern Sijistan Series, drachms (5), types with duriba [bi- 80h, 3.26 g. (SICA I, 226 ff), fine; with other drachms (8) of Zaranj] in obverse margin (chipped); Salih b. Ridha (1); Ziyad b. Abi Sufyan (3), DA (Darabjird) 43YE (SICA I, uncertain governors (2) and margins unclear (1), all hoard- 239ff), scratched, DA blundered date, and BYŠ 53h (SICA I, stained, fair to fine; with an imitation of a Khusraw II type 143ff); Ùbaydallah b. Ziyad, DA 43YE (Walker B.14); Arab-Sasanian drachm, bismillah – rabi in obverse margin, SK Àbdallah b. al-Zubayr (2), DA 57YE (SICA I, 258) and (Sijistan), date unclear; Turko-Hephthalite drachms (2) of Vasu KRMAN-NAR (Narmasir) 67h (severely clipped, fair); Ùmar Deva (Mitchiner 1560), one pierced, the other countermarked; b. Ùbaydallah, drachm, BYŠ (Bishapur) 67h (SICA I, 156ff); Sasanian drachms (2); Tabaristan hemidrachms (5) of Farkhan, al-Muhallab b. Abi Sufra, BYŠ 76h (SICA I, 211ff), Saìd, Ùmar, Hani, Jarir (name in margin and AFZWT to right generally good fine to very fine (9) £250-300 of bust), fine to very fine (15) £300-400 POST-REFORM UMAYYAD COINAGE

126 temp. `Abd al-Malik, 65-86h, dinar, 78h, 4.21 g. (Walker 187), old scratch on obverse, about very fine £120-150 ‡139 temp. 127 Hisham, dinar, 124h, 4.25 g. (Walker 244), extremely Dinars (6), 78h, 80h, 81h, 83h, 84h, 86h, 3.60, 4.22, 4.26, 4.15, fine £120-150 3.99, 3.93, g. (Walker 187, 190, 191, 193, 194, 197), some with scratches or graffiti, good fine to very fine (6) £500-600 140 temp. 128 Marwan II, 127-132h, dinar, 129h, no point below d Dinars (3), 80h, 81h, 91h, 3.89, 3.87, 3.90 g. (Walker 190, of duriba, 4.21 g. (Walker 249 note), some scuffs and 191, 202), all clipped otherwise about very fine (3) £200-250 uneven toning on obverse, otherwise very fine and scarce; temp. Hisham, 105-125h, dinar, 111h, 4.08 g. (Walker 129 231), ex-mount, good fine (2) £200-250 Dinars (3), 80h, 90h, 91h, 3.55, 4.19, 4.18 g. (Walker 190, 201, 202), first clipped, second slightly bent, good fine to 141 almost very fine (3) £200-250 Dirham, Adharbayjan 105h, 2.85 g. (Klat 24.a1), black surfaces, very fine or better £40-60 130 Dinars (4), 81h (graffiti), 109h, 110h (graffiti), 123h, 4.22, 4.22, 4.08, 4.24 g. (Walker 191, 229, 230, 243), a few scuffs and edge marks, generally very fine and better (4) £350-400

131 temp. `Abd al-Malik, 65-86h, dinar, 84h, 4.15 g. (Walker 194), extremely fine £120-150 142 132 Dirham, Arran 89h, points below b of duriba and b of bi- temp. al-Walid I, 86-96h, dinars (3), 88h, 89h, 90h, 4.19, Arran, 1.76 g. (Klat 26), evenly clipped, fine to good fine 4.20, 4.16 g. (Walker 199, 200, 201), good fine to very fine and extremely rare £1,500-2,000 (3) £220-250

133 temp. al-Walid I, dinars (4), 91h, 92h, 95h, 96h, 4.13, 4.09, 4.21, 4.06 g. (Walker 202, 204, 209, 210), good fine to very fine (4) £300-400

134 Dinars (3), 92h, 98h, 110h, 4.22, 4.01, 4.24 g. (Walker 204, 213, 230), very fine to almost extremely fine, the second 143 clipped (3) £250-300 Dirham, Ardashir Khurra 83h, 2.51 g. (Klat 32), very fine and extremely rare [3 specimens known to Klat] £1,000-1,500 135 temp. Sulayman, 96-99h, dinars (2), 98h, 99h, 3.79, 4.23 g. (Walker 213, 214), very fine to good very fine (2) £150-200

‡136 temp. Sulayman, dinar, 99h, 4.14 g. (Walker 214), light graffiti on obverse, very fine to good very fine £100-120

137 144 temp. Hisham, 105-125h, dinars (3), 109h, 111h, 112h, Dirham, Istakhr 84h, unit of date reads ϊΑή΍ with closed top 4.18, 4.16, 4.22 g. (Walker 229, 231, 232), good very fine to to ayn, 2.14 g. (Klat 71.2), edge broken from 12 to 4 o’clock extremely fine (3) £280-320 on obverse, otherwise very fine and very rare £300-400

145 Dirhams, Dastawa 91h, 94h, 2.72, 2.79 g. (Klat 310, 313), good fine, the first with slight edge damage; together with other dirhams (14) comprising Sijistan 94h, hoard-stained, otherwise ‡138 about very fine; al-Jazira 128h (ex-mount); Dimashq 81h, 82h temp. Hisham, dinar, 114h, 4.26 g. (Walker 234), extremely (2), 84h (2), 87h, 95h, 123h; Sabur 93h, 95h; al-Samiya 131h; fine £150-200 Suq al-Ahwaz 94h, mainly fine to very fine (16) £200-300 146 151 Dirham, Dashtaq 94h, 2.40 g. (Klat 338.b, this piece), Dirham, Zaranj 102h, unit of date apparently reads ϦϴΘϨΛ΍ hairline crack above second line of obverse kalima, has instead of ϦϴΘϨΛ , 2.13 g. (cf Klat 413), edge damaged, fine but been cleaned and tooled in obverse fields, otherwise good very rare and apparently an unrecorded variety £800-1,200 fine to almost very fine and of the highest rarity, the only specimen known to Klat £2,500-3,500 152 Dirhams (3), Sijistan, 96h, 97h; Hamadhan 94h, 2.45, 2.54, 2.58 g. (Klat 438, 439, 671), all with hoard staining, fine to very fine (3) £150-200

147 Dirham, Dasht-i Maysan 80h, 2.59 g. (Klat 319), severe hoard-staining but mint and date clear, fine to very fine and very rare £1,000-1,500

153 Dirham, Sijistan 101h, annulets o [o o] o o / o o o [o o], pellet below η of Ϛϳήη in third line of obverse field, 2.39 g. (Klat 443, annulets not visible), hoard-stained, especially at margins, and slight edge damage, good fine and extremely rare £1,000-1,500

148 154 Dirham, Junday Sabur 79h, 2.57 g. (Klat 234, same dies), Dirhams, al-Mubaraka 110h, 120h, 2.86, 2.92 g. (Klat 573, clipped and some hoard-staining at margins, otherwise about variety with point below ϩήηϋ, 578.b), first with edge shaved, very fine and extremely rare [3 specimens known to Klat] otherwise both very fine; together with other dirhams (9), £2,500-3,000 comprising al-Basra 100h; al-Taymara 96h; Sabur 98h (corroded); Manadhir 95h, 96h (chipped), 97h; Marw 94h, 98h, 99h, fair to very fine, a few stained (11) £150-200

155 Dirhams, al-Mubaraka 117h, 119h, with concentric annulets and pellets in margin, 2.88, 2.54 g. (Klat 575, 577.b), first almost extremely fine, second good fine and clipped; together 149 with other dirhams (11): Kirman 90h (2), 103h (2); Mahay 91h, Dirham, Zaranj 101h, annulets oo o o o o / o o o o o, 2.34 97 (corroded), 98h (chipped); Marw 90h; Manadhir 91h, 92h, g. (Klat 412), horn silver on both sides but very fine with 97h, generally fine to very fine (13) £250-300 mint and date clear, very rare £600-800

150 156 Dirham, Zaranj 102h, 2.26 g. (Klat 413), edge damage, Dirham, Maysan 79h, 2.28 g. (Klat 628), broken in three fine and very rare £600-800 pieces, scratched on obverse, only fine but very rare £300-400 157 164 Dirham, ‘Naysabur’ 82h, mint/date formula apparently Revolutionary Period, al-Dahhak b. Qays al-Shaybani, reads … Δϧγ ήϭΒγϧ ϲϓ ϢϫήΪϠ΍…, 2.19 g. (Klat 650, this piece), dirham, al-Kufa 128h, with Kharijite slogan la hukma illa flan crack at 7 o’clock on obverse and has been cleaned with Allah in obverse margin, 2.69 g. (Klat 548.a; Wurtzel 28), a few traces of horn silver remaining, very fine and of the good fine and scarce £200-300 highest rarity, the only specimen known to Klat £2,500-3,500 165 Revolutionary Period, al-Dahhak b. Qays al-Shaybani, 158 dirham, al-Kufa 128h, similar to the last, 2.64 g. (Klat 548.a; Dirham, Wasit 95h, probably a contemporary imitation struck Wurtzel 28), good fine and scarce £200-300 in North Africa, eight-pointed star in upper reverse field, 2.57 g. (Klat 690.b), some corrosion on obverse, otherwise fine and rare; together with other Umayyad dirhams (15), Darabjird 91- 97h inclusive; Kirman, 90h, 93h, 94h, 97h, 98h, 101h, 103h; Marw 100h (Klat 597.a), some hoard-stained, mainly fine to very fine (16) £200-300

159 166 Umayyad dirhams (10), comprising Arminiya 99h (pierced Revolutionary Period, `Abdallah b. Mu`awiya, 127-130h, and stained), 101h; al-Bab 120h (2); al-Basra 80h, 81h, 82h; dirham, Hamadhan 129h, 2.92 g. (Klat 676; Wurtzel 8), light Balkh 128h (broken and repaired); al-Taymara 97h; al-Samiya spotting on obverse, otherwise very fine and extremely rare 131h, many fine (10) £150-200 £2,500-3,000

160 ABBASID CALIPHATE Umayyad dirhams (15), comprising Istakhr 91h; Ifriqiya 114h; al-Basra 82h, 100h; Balkh 115h; Darabjird 92h, 167 Dastawa 93h, Dimashq 84h, 90h, 93h, 100h, 118h; Kirman al-Saffah/al-Mansur, dinar, 136h; al-Mansur, dinars (5), 92, 96h; Marw 110h; and Abbasid dirhams (3), Arminiya 146h, 152h, 156h (2), 157h, fine to very fine (6) £280-320 167h, Madinat Naysabur 196h and Madinat Isbahan 208h, generally fine to very fine, a few scarce (18) £200-300 168 al-Mansur, 136-158h, dinars (2), 140h and 156h, 4.23, 4.25 g.; 161 al-Mahdi, dinar, 166h, 4.24g.; al-Amin, dinar, 194h, citing li’l- Umayyad dirhams (13), comprising al-Basra 82h, 100h khalifa, 4.22 g., good very fine to extremely fine (4) £300-400 (3), Darabjird 94h, Sijistan 96h, Nahr Tira 90h, Wasit 89h, 95h (2), 96h (3); and Abbasid dirhams (3), Ifriqiya 168h, al- 169 Rafiqa 189h, Samarqand 217h, the Umayyad mostly with al-Mansur, dinar, 156h, 4.23 g. (Lowick 249), extremely hoard-staining, mostly fine, some better (16) £150-200 fine; al-Ma’mun, dinar, 205h, citing Muhammad b. al-Sari, 4.22 g. (Lowick 134), good very fine (2) £150-200

162 170 Umayyad dirhams (35), comprising Hamadhan 96h, fine, al-Mahdi, 158-169h, dinars (3), 165h, 168h, 16x; al-Rashid, stained; Harat 90h, stained, good fine; al-Samiya 131h, good dinars (8): varieties with rev., plain, 188h; rev., with amr fine; Nahr Tira 94h, fine; Wasit 85h (2), 92h (3), 94h, 95h (2), below, 174h; rev., citing Ja`far (2), 181h and date off flan; 96h, 99h, 103h, 105h, 116h, 117h, 119h, 121h, 122h (2), rev., citing li’l-khalifa (2), 192h and date off flan; with second 123h (3), 124h (4), 125h, 126h (2), 127h (2), 129h, two margin citing al-Amin as heir, 182h and 18xh, some clipped, pierced, mainly fine to very fine (35) £150-200 very good to very fine (11) £400-500

171 al-Rashid, 170-193h, dinars (6), all citing Ja`far, 177h, 187h, 181h, 184h, 185h, 186h, first good very fine, others very good to very fine (6) £250-300

163 172 `Abd al-Malik b. Marwan, finance director in Egypt al-Rashid, dinars (4), 184h, 185h, 186h, all citing al-Amin, 132h, fals, al-Fustat Misr, 6.19 g. (Walker P.140), good fine 192h li’l-Khalifa, 4.07, 4.08, 4.08, 4.17 g. (Kazan 95, 97, to very fine and rare £100-150 99, 106), good fine to very fine (4) £160-180 173 al-Ma’mun, 194-218h, dinars (4), 200h, al-Hasan / ayn // lillah / Dhu’l-riyasatayn (Lowick 435), 203h (3), all al-`Iraq // lillah / Dhu’l-riyasatayn, fine to very fine (4) £200-250

182 174 al-Mu`tamid, dinar, San`a 275h, citing al-Muwaffaq and al-Mamun, dinars (6), 203h, al-Maghrib // lillah Tahir / al- Ahmad b. al-Muwaffaq, 2.92 g. (cf SICA X, 240; Album Sari (Lowick 124); 209h (2), 210h, all citing `Ubaydallah b. al- 1055), reverse scuffed, very fine to good very fine, scarce Sari // li’l-khalifa / al-Mamun (Lowick 144, 150); 209h, £150-200 without mint-name or governor, date in second obverse margin (Lowick 454), scuffed; Misr 218h, with mint-name in second obverse margin (Album 222A), fair to very fine (6) £250-300

175 al-Mu`tasim, 218-227h, dinar, Misr 220h., 4.08 g. (Kazan 183 132); al-Mutawakkil, dinars (4), Misr 240h, citing heir as al-Muktafi, dinar, al-Basra 292h, 4.40 g., slightly weak in Abu Àbdallah, 245h, 246h, 247h, all citing heir as al- Mu`tazz, 4.14, 4.17, 3.98, 4.15 g. (Nicol 1263, 1268, 1269, obverse centre, very fine and rare £400-600 1271), fine to very fine (5) £300-400 184 al-Muktafi, dinar, Sanà 294h, inner obverse margin starts at 176 7 o’clock, 2.89 g. (SICA X, 252); al-Muqtadir, dinar, Sanà al-Mutawakkil, 232-247h, dinars (3), Misr 233h, 235h, both 311h, 1.93 g. (Bikhazi 117), good very fine to about extremely without name of heir, and 237h citing heir Abu Àbdallah, fine, the second a little weakly struck (2) £200-250 4.12, 3.77, 4.22 g. (Kazan 142, - [BMC 320], 144), first very fine and scarce, others fine to good fine (3) £200-300 185 al-Muktafi, dinar, Misr 295h, 4.05 g. (Kazan 173), very fine; al-Mahdi, dinar, 168h, clipped and scuffed, fine; with a ‡177 Safavid shahi and an Ilkhanid dirham (broken) (4) £100-120 al-Mutawakkil, dinar, Misr 239h, 4.23 g. (Kazan 148), scratch and scuff on obverse, otherwise good very fine £100-120 186 al-Muqtadir, dinars (5), al-Ahwaz 317h; Suq al-Ahwaz 178 313h, 317h; Misr 301h, 302h, 4.18, 4.39, 3.67, 4.11, 4.06 g., al-Musta’in, 248-251h, dinars (2), Misr 248h, 249h, 4.12, 4.01 very fine to about extremely fine (5) £300-400 g. (Nicol 1292, 1293), good fine, first with graffiti (2) £150-200

187 179 al-Muqtadir, dinar, Mah al-Basra 317h, 3.09 g. (Zambaur p. al-Musta’in, dinar, Marw 250h, citing heir Abu’l-`Abbas, 222), weak areas on both sides, very fine and rare £400-600 4.18 g. (Album 233.2), fine to good fine, rare £200-250

188 180 al-Qahir, 320-322h, heavy (double?) dinar, al-Ahwaz 322h, al-Musta’in, dinar, Madinat al-Salam 251h, 4.22 g. (BMC with “avenger” inscription al-muntaqim min a`da / Allah li- I, 334 same obverse die), small cut on edge, otherwise good din Allah in rev. field, 9.32 g. (legends as Album 252), very fine and scarce £150-200 carefully struck on a thick planchet, almost extremely fine and apparently unrecorded of this weight £400-600 181 al-Mu`tamid, 256-279h, dinar, Misr 264h, 4.20 g. (Nicol While the weights of Abbasid dinars of this period are not as consistent as those of the Umayyads, they never became an ingot 1317), good fine and rare; al-Muktafi, 289-295h, dinar, coinage with random weights and it is hard to imagine that the very Madinat al-Salam 290h, 4.74 g. (Kazan 169); al-Muqtadir, heavy weight of this coin was not deliberate. A ‘medallion’ type dinars (2), Madinat al-Salam 306h, 318h, 4.09, 4.38 g. (Kazan double-dinar of Madinat al-Salam 322h is known (Ilisch 178, 187), all slightly uneven strikes, very fine to good very DI25=Qatar 1349), and while the present example lacks the wide fine (4) £300-350 border it too may have been intended as a presentation piece. 195 Abbasid dinars (15), 134h, 143h, 154h, (15)6h, 159h, 165h, 169h, 17x, 177h (2), 179h, 184h, 186h, 187h, 199h, and an Umayyad dinar, 81h, mainly fine or slightly better, a few clipped or scratched (16) £500-600 189 196 al-Radi, 322-329h, dinar, Wasit 323h, 4.13 g., good very al-Saffah, 132-136h, dirham, Ardashir Khurra 134h, 2.84 g. fine and rare £300-400 (Lowick 2027), very fine and scarce; al-Mu`tamid, 256-279h, dirham, Madinat Harat 269h, fine; together with Umayyad 190 dirhams (12): al-Basra 100h; al-Taymara 96h; Darabjird 96h; al-Muttaqi, 329-333h, dinar, Sanà 329h, single obverse Dimashq 83h, 94h, 106h; Sabur 98h (2 – varieties with and marginal legend as SICA X, 267, 1.90 g. (cf SICA X, 269 for without point below first letter of mint-name); Sijistan 93h date), edge cut, scrape on obverse, otherwise about very fine (edge damage); Surraq 93h; Suq al-Ahwaz 94h; Manadhir 95h, and scarce; al-Mu`tamid, dinar, Sanà 261h, 2.85 g. (SICA X, generally fine to very fine (14) £150-200 236), edge smoothed and twice pierced, otherwise very fine; Sulayhid, Àli b. Muhammad, 439-473h, dinars (3), all ‘Zabid 451’, one with date clearly written, the others with 197 blundered legends (SICA X, 148-149), one ex-mount, good fine al-Saffah, 132-136h, dirhams (4), al-Basra 136h, al-Kufa to very fine (5) £200-300 132h (2), 136h; together with miscellaneous Abbasid first and second period dirhams (74), many fine or better, a few pierced or chipped (78) £300-400

198 al-Mahdi, 158-169h, dirham, Sijistan 166h, with name of caliph, 2.93 g. (Qatar 1514), al-Rashid, 170-193h, dirham, Madinat Zaranj 193h, citing Harthama b. A`yan and al- 191 Hakam b. Sinan, 2.92 g. (Lowick 2472), first good fine, al-Mustadi, 566-575h, dinar, Madinat al-Salam 567h, 2.84 second good very fine, both rare (2) £150-200 g. (cf Emirates Coin Auction 2, 28 March 2000, lot 476), edge shaved, otherwise very fine to good very fine and unusually well struck for the issue, rare £1,000-1,200

192 Abbasid, al-Mustansir, 623-640h, dinar, Madinat al-Salam 624h, 5.07 g. (BMC I, 497), creased and some weakness in margin but date clear, good fine to very fine and rare; al- 199 Mu’tadid, 279-289h, dirham, Amid 286h, with obverse al-Mahdi, dirham, al-Yamama 166h, obverse with four margin reading bismillah duriba bi Amid sanat fatha’a wa double-annulets, 2.82 g. (Lowick 574), very fine and well houa sitt wa thamanin wa mi’atain, 2.67 g., cracked and struck for the issue £400-600 repaired, fine and very rare (2) £180-220 200 al-Ma’mun, 194-218h, dirham, al-Muhammadiya 195h, citing Tahir b. al-Husayn in obverse margin, star in lower obverse field, 2.86 g. (Miles 96I; Album 223.3A), good very fine and rare £100-150

201 193 al-Ma’mun, dirham, Samarqand 202h, citing heir al-Rida, 2.31 al-Mustansir, dinar, Irbil 631h, 3.73 g., slightly creased and g. (Lowick 2678), flan crack, about very fine and rare; together some weakness in striking, otherwise almost extremely fine with dirhams (11), comprising Madinat Isbahan 199h, 200h and very rare £400-600 (2); Madinat Samarqand 194h, 195h, 196h (2), 197h, 209h; Madinat Harat 196h; Wasit 203h, generally fine to very fine (12) £150-200

194 202 al-Mustansir, dinar, Irbil 633h, 3.87 g. (Lavoix 1308), al-Muntasir, 247-248h, dirham, Surra man ra`a 248h, 2.71 g. creased and weakness at margin, very fine to good very fine (Kazan 153; Album 232 RR), cleaned and two old scrapes on and very rare £400-600 reverse, good fine to almost very fine and rare £250-300 210 Aghlabid, Ziyadat Allah I, dinar, 215h, fine; Marinid, Abu Yahya Abu Bakr, dinars (2), without mint-name (Album 520), buckled flans, fine to good fine; Ayyubid, al- Kamil Muhammad I, dinar, al-Qahira 629h, good fine; Mamluk, Faraj, dinar, al-Qahira date off flan, flatness on 203 both sides, very fine (5) £250-300 al-Mu`tadid, 279-289h, dirham, San`a 280h, struck on a broad flan and with fine style calligraphy, 2.83 g. (cf Album 1057A, in the name of al-Muktafi), twice pierced, otherwise very fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished £500-800

This is apparently the earliest full flan dirham known for the mint of San`a. For a later dirham of similar style dated 291h see Spink Zurich Auction 27, 1 June 1988, lot 194. 211 204 Almoravid, Yusuf b. Tashufin, 480-500h, dinar, Sijilmasa al-Mu`tadid, dirham, Ra’s al-`Ayn 283h, 3.00 g. (Ties. 484h, 4.08 g. (Hazard 78), very fine or better £300-400 2130), extremely fine and well struck, rare thus £100-150

212 205 Almoravid, `Ali b. Yusuf, 500-537h, dinar, al-Mariya al-Muqtadir, 295-320h, dirham, Hulwan 303h, 3.70 g., some 529h, 4.01 g. (Hazard 356), almost extremely fine £250-300 marginal weakness, otherwise better than very fine and rare £200-300

‡213 206 Almoravid, `Ali b. Yusuf, dinar, al-Mariya 533h, without al-Muqtadir, medallion dirham, Madinat al-Salam 310h, name of heir, 4.19 g. (Hazard 361), good very fine £200-250 2.98 g. (Ilisch DI 21), good fine and rare £300-400 214 207 Almohad, Abu Ya`qub Yusuf I, 558-580h, half dinars (2), Abbasid dirhams struck in Arminiya (8), 145h (2), 149h Hadr Marrakush, no date (as amir, 558-563h), and without (2), 161h (3), 162h, fine to very fine £150-200 mint or date (as amir al-mu`minin, 563-580h), 2.28, 2.28 g. (Hazard 488, 495), good very fine (2) £120-150

208 Fals, without mint or date (Tarsus), cast, citing the governor Ibn Abi `Isa, 2.09 g. (cf Shamma p.101, 14), very fine and rare £100-150 215 Almohad, Abu Yusuf Ya`qub, 580-595h, dinar, without mint-name, 4.58 g. (Hazard 501; Album 484), extremely fine £200-300

209 216 Fals, without mint or date (Tarsus), cast, citing the governor Almohad, Abu Yusuf Ya`qub, 580-595h, dinars (2), Munajah, 2.10 g. (cf. Shamma p.102, 21), very fine to good similar to the last, 4.59, 4.60 g., good very fine to extremely very fine and rare £100-150 fine (2) £400-500 227 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (3), Sur 440h, 446h, 447h, 3.46, 4.02, 3.55 g. (Nicol 2033, 2037, 2038), fine to good fine (3) £250-300

228 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (3), Trablus 440h, 445h, 217 p Tulunid, Ahmad b. Tulun, 254-270h, dinar, al-Rafiqa 266h, 453h, 3.83, 5.30, 4.22 g. (BMC 140 , - , 164), last with edge 3.86 g. (Grabar -), good very fine and scarce £200-300 damage, good fine to very fine (3) £250-300 229 218 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Misr 442h, 4.19 g. (Miles 338), Tulunid, Khumarawayh, 270-282h, dinars (3), Misr 273h, almost extremely fine; with al-Mu`izz, fractional dinars (2), 277h, 279h, 3.96, 4.29, 3.92 g. (Grabar 24, 37, 52), first both with mint and date off flan; al-Hakim, 386-411h, dinar, about fine, others good very fine, the second weak in centres Misr 396h, fair to fine; al-Zahir, 411-427h, dinar, al- on both sides (3) £200-300 Mansuriya 416h, good fine; al-Zafir, 544-549h, dinar, al- Iskandariya 5xx, margins weak, stained, fine (6) £250-300 219 Ikhshidid, `Ali b. al-Ikhshid, 349-355h, dirham, Filistin 230 353h, 2.37 g. (Album 677 RR), flan crack, good fine; together Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (2), Sur 444h, 454h, 4.18, 3.49 with Turkoman pictorial bronzes of the Artuqids (1 - SS type g. (Miles 295, -), both on buckled flans and with some edge 35), Zangids (11 - SS types 59, 61, 68, 79, 81 (3), 82 (2), 83, damage, otherwise about very fine and scarce (2) £150-200 85); and Ayyubids (3); other Islamic bronze issues (9) and a Byzantine follis, a few cleaned, some fine (26) £120-150

231 220 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Dimashq 446h, 4.24 g. (Miles Fatimid, al-Mu`izz, dinar, al-Mansuriya 345h, 3.88 g. (Miles p.50; BMC -; Nicol -), very fine and rare £1,000-1,500 -; Kazan 449), lightly clipped, otherwise very fine and scarce 232 £150-200 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (3), Sur 449h, 4.15 g. (Nicol 2039); 454h, 4.26 g. (Miles p.50); 455h, 3.83 g. (Miles p.50, 221 good fine to about very fine (3) £300-400 Fatimid, al-`Aziz, dinars (3), al-Mahdiya 367h, 4.05 g. (Kazan 477), good fine; al-Mansuriya 381h?, good fine, crude with mint-name blundered, and Misr 386h, scratched, fair (3) £150-200

222 Fatimid, al-Hakim, dinar, Misr 411h, fine; al-Zahir, dinars (4), al-Mansuriya (2), 426h (pierced) and with date off flan; 233 al-Mahdiya (2), 4xx, (4)x6, fine and better (5) £180-220 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Sur 450h, 3.89 g. (Miles 298), very fine £140-180 223 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, 427-487h, dinars (3), Sur 435h, 437h, 439h, 4.11, 4.15, 3.53 g. (Miles 289, 290, 291), fine to very fine (3) £250-300

224 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (4), Sur 435h, 437h, 438h, 439h, 234 3.31, 3.92, 3.71, 4.42 g. (Miles 289, 290, p.50, 291), good fine to Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Madinat al-Salam 451h, very fine, the last two bent at the edge (4) £400-500 month of Muharram, struck by the partisan Arslan al-Basasiri, 3.80 g. (Kazan 611), double struck on obverse, otherwise very 225 fine and very rare £2,500-3,000 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (2), Trablus 437h, 438h, 3.87, 4.12 g. (Nicol 2046, 2047), the first damaged with margins partially illegible but mint and date clear, fine to very fine (2) £120-150

226 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinars (4), Sur 440h, 444h, 446h, 235 447h, 3.81, 4.05, 3.39, 3.26 g. (Nicol 2033, 2036, 2037, Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Sur 452h, 3.99 g. (Nicol 2038), generally good fine (4) £380-420 2040), almost very fine £140-180 236 243 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Sur 453h, 3.89 g. (BMC Ziyadid, `Ali b. Ibrahim, 362-370h, dinar, Zabid 368h, 3.07 IV.160), about very fine £140-180 g. (SICA X, -; Bikhazi -; Album B1071 RRR; cf Emirates Coin Auction 1, lot 348), very fine and rare £300-400

244 Rassid, al-Hadi, 284-298h, dinar, Sa`da 298h, 2.90 g. (SICA X, 188ff), good very fine; Sulayhid, al-Mukarram Ahmad, 473-484, dinar, `Adan 482h, 2.33 g. (Album 1076), good very fine (2) £160-220 237 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Sur 456h, 3.74 g. (Nicol 2041), very fine £150-200

245 Tarafid Amirs of Àthar, Abu Àli al-Faraj, dinar, Àthar 383h, rev., ϲϓήτϟ΍ / Νήϔϟ΍ / ήϴϣϻ΍ ϪΑ ήϣ΍ , 2.57 g. (cf. Spink Zurich auction 27, lot 166), flan lamination on reverse, very 238 fine and very rare £1,000-1,500 Fatimid, al-Mustansir, dinar, Sur 462h, 4.16 g. (unlisted in Miles but a known date; Nicol -), very fine and rare £200-250

239 Fatimid, al-Hafiz, 526-544h, dinars (2), al-Iskandariya 531h, 534h, 4.42, 3.87 g. (Miles 487, 488), first about extremely fine, second good fine and clipped; al-Mustansir, 246 dinar, al-Iskandariya, date off flan, scrape on reverse, Mukramid, Nasir al-din, fl. 411-427h, dinar, `Uman otherwise extremely fine (3) £250-300 (41)9h, 3.21 g. (cf Emirates Coin Auction 2, lot 453, 11), about fine and very rare £600-800

‡240 Ayyubid, Saladin, 564-589h, dinar, al-Iskandariya [57]1h, citing the caliph al-Mustadi, 3.76 g. (Balog 20), clipped, about very fine and scarce £120-150 ‡247 Seljuq of Rum, Kaykhusraw III, 633-682h, dinar, Madinat Siwas 668h, rev., in five lines: Ϣψϋϻ΍ ϥΎτϠδϟ΍ / ϢϟΎόϟ΍ ϲϓ ϪϠϟ΍ Ϟχ / ΙΎϴϏ ϥϴΪϟ΍ ϭ ΎϴϧΪϟ΍ / ϼγή΍ ΞϠϗ ϥΑ ϭήδΨϴϛ / ϥϴϧϤϭϤϠ΍ήϴϤ΍ϥ , 4.38 g., slightly wavy flan, otherwise extremely fine and extremely rare, apparently unpublished £3,000-4,000

248 ‡241 Pictorial bronzes (12): Artuqid (9 - SS types 28, 30, 31, Ayyubid, al-Mansur Muhammad, 595-596h, dinar, al- 34, 35, 37, 39, 40, 43); Zangid (2 - SS types 59, 83); Qahira 595h, 4.70 g. (Balog 226), extremely fine with some Ayyubid (1 - Balog 849), fine to good fine (12) £150-200 mint lustre, rare £300-400 249 Ottoman, Sulayman I, 926-974h, sultani, Misr 926h, 242 Murad III, sultani, Misr 982h; Ahmad I, sultani, Misr Bahri Mamluk, Sha`ban II, 764-778h, dinar, mint and date 1012h; Mahmud I, zir-i mahbub, Misr 1143h; Abdul off flan (Dimashq 776h by die-link), 9.40 g. (Balog 424); Hamid I, zir-i mahbub, Misr (119)2h; Mahmud II, rumi Faraj, 801-808h and 809-815h, dinar, al-Qahira 809h, 8.46 altin, Qustantaniya 1223h year 13, good fine to about g. (Balog 621)., about extremely fine (2) £300-400 extremely fine (6) £200-300 250 Ottoman, Sulayman I, sultani, Misr 932h, rev. flan faults, good fine and scarce; Murad III, sultani, Misr 982h, scratch on rev., very fine; Murad IV, sultani, Misr date off flan, good very fine (3) £150-200

257 251 Salukid, Muhammad b. `Ali, governor of Rayy 314-316h, Ottoman, Ahmad III, 1115-1143h, ashrafi, Misr 1115h, dinar, al-Muhammadiya 315h, obv., pellet above field, ήϴΧ 3.48 g. (Pere 509; KM 73), has been straightened with some below, rev., ϪϠϟ Ω above field, 4.06 g. (Album A1483; Miles resulting flatness, otherwise fine to very fine and rare; with 159 var.), very fine and rare £350-400 other Ottoman gold (7), 18th century to Turkish Republic, two pierced, fine to extremely fine (8) £300-400

252 Ottoman, 100 kurush (4), all Qustantaniya, issues of Àbd al- Mejid, 1255h year 14; Àbd al-Àziz, 1277h year 3; Àbd al- Hamid II, 1293h years 28 and 33, good fine to very fine (4) £180-220 258 Zanj Rebellion, Àli b. Muhammad, dinar, Madinat al- Mukhtara 261h, obv. centre: - / Muhammad bin / Amir al- 253 Mu`minin, inner margin: mint/date formula, outer margin: Georgia, Queen Tàmar, AD 1184-1213, AE, Kòronikon “Truly God has purchased the persons and goods of the 420 = AD 1200 (Lang 11), very fine; Abaqa, dirham, Faithful at this price – that theirs is paradise who fight in the Christian type, struck in Tiflis c. 680h (Lang 19), good Way of God, rev. centre: Àli / - / al-Mahdi Àli bin fine/very fine (2) £100-150 Muhammad, margin: “And those who will not decide in accordance with what God has sent, these are the infidels,” 3.76 g. (Album A1432; Walker, J.A., ‘A rare coin of the Zanj,’ JRAS July 1933, pages 651-655), obverse weak, otherwise very fine and of the highest rarity £4,000-6,000

Struck from the same dies as the British Museum specimen.

The Zanj were slaves who originally came from East Africa (their 254 name survives in the name Zanzibar). They worked in appalling Georgia, Queen Rusudan, AD 1223-1245, dirham, no conditions in the marshlands in southern Iraq, clearing salt from mint (Tiflis), K`oronikon 450 = AD 1230, nimbate bust of agricultural land. They staged a revolt against the caliph in 254h Christ facing, raising right hand in benediction and holding and made a series of raids into Khuzistan, culminating in the Gospels, rev., Georgian RSN monogram in ornate border, capture of Basra and massacre of its inhabitants in 257h. It took Arabic legend around, 2.79 g. (Lang 14 var.), good very years of hard campaigning before the rebellion was finally crushed fine, rare in this condition £250-300 by al-Mufawwaq, the caliph’s brother, in 270h. Madinat al-Mukhtara (‘The Elect City’) was the Zanj capital, located some way south of Basra. Its location is now uncertain after it was comprehensively destroyed by al-Muwaffaq.

255 Georgia, David Ulugh and Möngke Khan, dirham, Tiflis 650h, 2.71 g. (Lang p.39), very fine or better, rare £150-200

259 Hasanwayhid, Badr b. Hasanwayh, 369-405h, dinar, Sabur Khwast 395h, 4.16 g. (Album 1588 RR; cf Sotheby’s, 9 March 1989, lot 439), very fine to good very fine and rare £300-400

256 Sajid of Adharbayjan, Muflih al-Yusufi, fl. 317-323h, 260 dinar, Adharbayjan 323h, 3.31 g. (Album 1480; cf Kakwayhid, Àla al-Dawla Muhammad, 398-433h, dinar, Sotheby’s, 21 November 1985, lot 388), almost very fine Isbahan 432h, 2.80 g. (Album 1590), clipped, about very and very rare £800-1,200 fine and scarce £120-150 261 Tahirid, Tahir b. al-Husayn, 205-207h, dirhams (2), Samarqand 206h, citing the governor al-Àla, 2.38 g. (Album 1391; Sotheby’s, 17 April 1984, lot 104), obverse off-centre and some hoard-staining, otherwise almost extremely fine and rare; Madinat Harat 206h, citing the governor al-Shukr b. ‡268 Katib13 Ibrahim, 3.44 g. (Album 1391A; cf Sotheby’s, 17 April 1984, Buwayhid, Ìmad al-dawla, dinar, Madinat al-Salam 334h, lot 105), obverse slightly double struck, very fine, reverse citing Muìzz al-dawla and the caliph al-Muti`, 4.63 g. about fine and scratched, rare (2) £250-300 (Treadwell Ms334Gb), almost very fine and rare £200-300

Struck in the year the Buwayhids occupied Baghdad.

262 269 Samanid, Ahmad II b. Ismaìl, dirham, Farwan 297h, 3.74 Buwayhid, Àdud al-dawla, dinar, Shiraz 361h, 4.21 g. g. good very fine/good fine, the reverse scratched where (Treadwell Sh361G, same dies), about extremely fine and corrosion has been removed, rare £200-250 rare £500-700 270 263 Buwayhid, Àdud al-dawla, dinar, Suq al-Ahwaz 367h, 4.41 Samanid, Nasr b. Ahmad, 301-331h, dinars (5), al- g. (Treadwell Su367G), good very fine; Second Saffarid Muhammadiya 331h, 4.36 g. (Miles 171A), good fine and Dynasty, Khalaf, 352-393h, fractional dinars (2), 361h and scarce; Naysabur 316h (ex-mount), 322h, 325h (twice date off flan, very fine to good very fine (3) £150-200 pierced), 330h, fine and better (5) £160-180

264 Samanid, Nuh b. Nasr, 331-343, dinars (2), Samarqand 333h, with ΦΑ ΦΑ below obverse field, 4.12 g., and Naysabur 336h, with die engraver’s signature in obverse margin, 3.64 g. (BMC IX, 356v), good very fine (2) £200-300 271 Buwayhid, Rukn al-dawla and `Adud al-dawla, dirham, Shiraz 345h, marginal legends arranged within double hexagon with concave sides, obv., star in upper field, rev., star in lower field, 2.78 g. (Treadwell Sh345b. var), crazed flan and unevenly struck, otherwise very fine £150-200

265 272 Samanid, Nuh b. Nasr, dinar, Shiraz 339h, 4.51 g. Buwayhid, Rukn al-dawla and `Adud al-dawla, dirham, (Zambaur p. 164, note 28 ‘von allergrößter Seltenheit’), very Shiraz 346h, marginal legends arranged within double fine and very rare £300-400 hexagon with concave sides, rev., star in lower field, 4.14 g. (Treadwell Sh346.2), crazed flan, fine £100-150 Markov also lists a dinar of “Sabur 339h” (no. 819); it is possible that this was a misreading for Shiraz.

266 Samanid dinars (4), Naysabur 325h, 345h, 385h, 387h, good fine to very fine (4) £180-220 273 267 Buwayhid, Rukn al-dawla and Àdud al-dawla, dirham, Samanid dirhams (13): Ismaìl b. Ahmad, 279-295h, Huzu 349h, 1.94 g. (Treadwell Hz349, same dies), good fine dirham, al-Shash 286h, Nasr b. Ahmad, 301-331h, and rare [2 specimens listed by Treadwell] £200-300 Badakkhshan 318h, Balkh 317h, Samarqand 331h, al-Shash 330h, Ma`dan 304h; Nuh b. Nasr, 331-343h, Bukhara 337h, 274 339h, Samarqand 339h, 341h, Ma`dan 333h; Àbd al-Malik Buwayhid, Rukn al-dawla and Muìzz al-dawla, dirham, b. Nuh, 343-350h, Samarqand 344h; Mansur I b. Nuh, 350- Suq al-Ahwaz 354h, obv. citing Ahmad b. Buwayh below 365h, Bukhara 354h, all identified in envelopes, first ex- kalima, rev., citing the caliph al-Muti` and Àli b. Buwayh, mount, others mainly weakly struck but generally very fine or 3.30 g. (Treadwell -), weakly struck, good fine to almost very better for issue (13) £120-150 fine and very rare, apparently unpublished £100-150 275 Buwayhid, Rukn al-dawla and Àdud al-dawla with Shirdhil, governor of Kirman, dirham, Bardasir 366h, 3.19 g. (Treadwell p. 77 note, legends similar to Br365), weakly struck, fine or better and very rare £100-150 282 Ghaznavid, Masùd I, dinar, Isbahan 427/9h, 2.28 g. (Album 1618, note), some flat striking, very fine and rare £200-300

283 Great Seljuq, Tughril Bek, dinar, Naysabur 450h; Alp 276 Arslan, dinar, Naysabur 465h; Malik Shah, dinars (2), Buwayhid, Fakhr al-dawla and Samsam al-dawla, dirham, Naysabur 465h, 482h; with miscellaneous Eastern dinars (5), al-Rudhan 382h, 3.42 g. (Treadwell Rd382), good fine and all with missing or partial dates, mainly fine (9) £200-300 extremely rare [two examples listed by Treadwell] £200-300

Both examples illustrated by Treadwell are unclear at the start of the mint-name, hence he gives the mint as Rudhan without the definite article. This is the only date known for Buwayhid coins of this mint.

277 Buwayhid dirhams: Ìmad al-dawla and Muìzz al-dawla, al-Àskar min al-Ahwaz 338h; Rukn al-dawla and Àdud al- dawla, Arrajan 365h (plugged), 367h; Shiraz 348h, 355h 284 (pierced), 358h, 359h, 363h; Fasa 355h (pierced), (35)8h, Great Seljuq, Muhammad I, 492-510h, dinar, Isfahan 510h, 360h; Kard Fana Khusra 360h; Fakhr al-dawla and Samsam rev., with the entire ‘Throne Verse’ (Qur’an II, 255) in field, al-dawla, Bardasir 382h (2); al-Basra 385h; Fasa 382h; Kard 3.87 g. (cf. BN 118), edge damaged from mounting and some Fana Khusra (38)1h; Shiraz 382h; Sultan al-dawla, Fasa 408h; weakness in margins, fine to good fine and rare £300-500 other Buwayhid dirhams (6) with missing or partial mints or dates, many fine and better, some scarce (25) £300-400 The mint-name is written ϥΎϬϔλ΍ rather than ϥΎϬΒλ΍ (see BN p. 83, note). There appears to be space for at least one more word between the end of the mint-name and the start of sanat, but unfortunately the margin is not legible at this point.

278 Qarakhanid, Nasr b. `Ali, c. 383-403h, dinar, Naysabur 396h, 3.95 g. (Kazan 995), very fine and rare £350-450

279 285 Qarakhanid, Àli b. al-Hasan, c. 417-428h, dirham, Seljuq of Kirman, Qara Arslan Beg, 440-465h, dinar, Shiraz Khutlugh Urdu 425h, 3.30 g. (Kochnev 784), weak strike 452h, obv., citing Àmid al-dawla and al-Qaìm, rev., citing but with little actual wear, about extremely fine for issue Qara Arslan Beg, 3.41 g. (cf Lowick, N.M., “Seljuq Coins”, NC and rare £80-120 1970, no. 21 for a coin of 454h with the same legends differ- ently arranged; Album 1697), almost very fine, rare £300-400 280 Ghaznavid, dinars (6), Naysabur 399h, Harat 4xx (sword type), 407h, 412h, 413h, Ghazna 42x, fine to very fine and base gold dinars (2), Balkh 489h, 490h, very fine (8) £300-400

281 Ghaznavid, Mas`ud I, 421-432g, pale dinar, Ghazna 422h, without name of caliph, 4.97 g. (Album 1619), very fine; Zangid, Mahmud, 616-631h, dinar, al-Mawsil 624h, 7.53 g. 286 (BN 385), usual uneven strike, otherwise good very fine, scarce Mongol Great Khans, Genghis Khan, 603-624h, dinar, citing of this weight; Ilkhanid, Uljaytu, 703-716h, dinar, Baghdad the caliph as al-imam al-a`zam, 6.36 g. (Album A1967), 715h, 4.94 g. (Album 2186), very fine (3) £220-280 uneven strike, good fine £400-600 ‡287 290 Ilkhanid, Hulagu, 654-663h, dinar, Baghdad 65x, 8.02 g. Ilkhanid, Abu Sa`id, 716-736h, dinar, Baghdad 718h, (Album 2121), uneven strike, very fine and scarce, of 10.35 g. (Album 2194), almost extremely fine, scarce of this unusually heavy weight £200-250 weight £180-220

‡288 ‡291 Ilkhanid, Hulagu, dinar, Baghdad [66]1h, 7.50 g. (Album Ilkhanid, Abu Sa`id, dinar, Yazd 719h, mihrab type, 8.66 2121), margins weak but almost as struck with some mint g. (Album 2198), small edge chip and scratch on reverse, lustre, scarce £200-250 good very fine and scarce £150-200

Ex Sotheby’s, 14 October 1999, lot 385 (part).

289 292 Ilkhanid, Abaqa, 665-680h, dinar, type with all Mehrabanid of Sijistan,`Izz al-Din Karman, 753-784h, inscriptions in Arabic, Isfahan date off flan, 8.27 g. (Album gold tanka, Nimruz (7)68h, month of Safar, 11.05 g. (Album 2126.1), margins weak, about extremely fine £200-250 2358), small areas of weakness both sides, otherwise about extremely fine and rare £250-300

293 Safavid, Tahmasp II, 1135-1145h, silver 20 shahi (5 abbasi), Isfahan 1142h, 26.07 g. (Rabino 28; Album A2689 RRR), ex- mount with some resulting porosity on reverse, very fine or better and rare £300-400

294 Afsharid, Nadir Shah, 1148-1160, ashrafi, Mashhad 1150, Type A (toughra type), 3.48 g. (Album 2740; cf Rabino 318 [in silver]), good very fine and rare £200-300

295 Afsharid, Ibrahim, 1161-1162, silver 12-shahi, Qazwin 1160 (sic), 13.83 g. (Album 2764), about extremely fine, scarce £80-120 296 306 Zand, Karim Khan 1166-1193h, quarter-mohurs (2), Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, tomans (3), Isfahan 1228h; Resht Shiraz 1181h and Kashan 1190h, 2.74 g., 2.70 g., good very 1228h; Kashan 1228h, 4.80, 4.79, 4.81 g., very fine to about fine (2) £150-180 extremely fine (3) £220-280

307 Qajar, Fath b`Ali Shah, tomans (4), Isfahan 1228h, Tihran 1228h, Yazd 1232h and Resht 1232h, generally very fine or better, the first pierced (4) £250-300

297 308 Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, 1212-1250h, toman, Lahijan 1213h, Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, tomans (2), Mazandaran 1228h 6.17 g. (Farahbakhsh p. 101, 5), about 40% flat on both sides, type V, 1231h type W, both about extremely fine, the otherwise good very fine with a clear date, scarce £150-200 second with some weak areas £200-250

298 309 Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, tomans (2), Lahijan (121)3h and Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, tomans (3), Kashan 1229h, 1230h, Resht 1213h, 6.04, 6.05 g., each about 30% flat on both sides, 1232h, all type V, 4.81, 4.79, 4.61 g., good very fine to otherwise very fine to good very fine, the first scarce (2) about extremely fine for issue (3) £250-300 £250-300

310 299 Timurid, Abu Bakr, ruler at Balkh, 851h, silver tanka, Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, toman, Resht 1213, inscription on mint and date off flan (Balkh 851h), (Album 2412 RRR), both sides within square tablet with triangular lobes (as struck off centre with some flatness on both sides, otherwise Farahbakhsh p. 101, 1), 6.15 g., partially flat on both sides good very fine and toned, very rare £100-120 but otherwise good very fine £120-150 ‡311 300 Sultans of Delhi, Muhammad Shah II, 695-715h, gold Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, tomans (3), Resht 1213h, tanka, Had[rat Dehli] date off flan, 10.92 g. (Hull 201), 1213/1213h, 1213/1214h, 6.20, 6.05, 6.11 g., very fine to good very fine £80-100 good very fine (3) £300-400 312 301 Sultans of Delhi, Muhammad Shah II, gold tanka, Hadrat Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, tomans (3), Resht 1213h (2), Dehli date off flan, 10.73 g. (Hull 201), good fine; Mughal, 1213/1214h, 6.06, 6.02, 6.19 g., all with weak areas, very Farrukhsiyar, 1124-1131h, muhur, Shahjahanabad date of fine to good very fine (3) £280-320 flan, 10.87 g., good very fine; Muhammad Shah, 1131-1161h, muhur, Shahjahanabad year 8, 10.86 g., about extremely fine 302 (3) £300-400 Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, toman, Resht 1214/1214h, rev. legend in square tablet with floral design in segments, 6.07 g., uneven strike, very fine and scarce; with another Resht toman of standard type, 1213h, 6.03 g. (Farahbakhsh p. 101, 3), very fine (2) £180-220

303 313 Qajar, Fath `Ali Shah, tomans (3), Resht 1214h, 1232h, Sultans of Gujarat, Mahmud III, 943-961h, gold tanka, 1239h, 6.16, 4.62, 4.57 g., first very fine and scarce, others no mint 950h, 11.99 g. (GG 412; Rajgor 2376), extremely very fine to almost extremely fine (3) £250-300 fine £250-300

304 314 Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, tomans (2), Tihran 1227h, 1228h, Nizamshahis of Ahmadnagar, Burhan II, 999-1003h, 4.76, 4.78 g., good very fine to about extremely fine (2) pagoda, Burhanabad 1001, 3.38 g., extremely fine and rare; £150-180 Sultans of Kashmir, Zain al-Abidin, square half-tanka or sansu, Kashmir 842 (Rajgor 2797), very fine (2) £150-200 305 Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, tomans (3), Tihran 1227h, 1228h, 315 1233h, 4.77, 4.80, 4.59 g., very fine to good very fine (3) Jaipur, Man Singh II, mohur, year 3 (1924), 10.88 g. (Y. £200-250 A15), good very fine £100-150 316 Miscellaneous: Abbasid, dinar, 188h, fine; Qajar, Fath Àli Shah, toman, Isbahan 1246h, very fine; with Eastern Islamic dinars (4), a Dutch trade ducat, 1806, and a gold jewellery element with a design apparently similar to 19th century Qajar coins, mixed grades (8) £150-200

317 Miscellaneous: Abbasid, dinar, Madinat al-Salam 603h, fine; Zangid, dinar, al-Mawsil 623h, plugged, about very fine; with other Islamic hammered gold (7), some fine (9) £200-300

318 Miscellaneous: Tulunid, Ahmad b. Tulun, dinar, Misr 268h, 4.04 g. (Grabar 8); Ikhshidid, Abu’l-Qasim Unujar, 334-349h, dinar, Filistin 337h, 4.06 g. (Nicol 1808-1811); Fatimid, al-Mustansir, 427-487, dinar, Misr 437h, 4.05 g. (Nicol 2080); Filali Sharifs of Morocco, Isma`il al-Samin, dinar, Fas 1123h, 3.43 g., Burji Mamluk, Ahmad III, 865h, ashrafi, mint and date off flan, 3.39 g. (Balog 781, same dies); Ottoman, Ahmed III, zeri Istanbul, 1115h (Pere 499), first creased and last ex-mount, fine to very fine (6) £280-320

319 Miscellaneous Islamic coins: Umayyad dirhams (19), mostly Wasit but including Manadhir 94h, this fine, others fine to very fine; Abbasid dirhams (9) including Arminiya 143h, many very fine; Seljuq dirhams (3), all lion and sun type, good very fine and better; Iranian silver (2) and a larin, very fine and better; Islamic fulus (29), mostly Mamluk, Arab-Byzantine (2), many fine; and a Sasanian drachm, very fine (61) £150-200

END OF SESSION

The sale will resume at 2.00 pm BRITISH GOLD COINS (starting at 2.00 pm)

The Property of a Gentleman

GOLD NOBLES AND THEIR CONTINENTAL IMITATIONS, c. 1350-1600 Representing the principal issues of English nobles, ryals and their various derivative types, this fine group of 50 coins has been assembled by a North American collector over a period of twelve years. Several exceptional rarities are included, as well as an outstanding range of Continental nobles, rose nobles and associated coins, a fascinating series which offers plenty of scope for further study. The present catalogue follows the standard work by Delmonte, A., Le Bénélux D’Or, Amsterdam, 1964.

‡320 ‡323 Edward III (1327-1377), Third Coinage, Third Period Edward III, Fourth Coinage, Treaty Period, noble, (1346-51), noble, London mint, obv., standard type: King Calais mint, obv., voided quatrefoil before EDWARD, flag at facing, standing in ship and holding sword and shield; reads stern, rev., C in centre, 7.44 g / 114.8 gr (N. 1236; S. 1504; EDWAR, rev., standard type: floriated cross with lis terminals, SCBI Schneider 102), struck from a rusty obverse die, very lions and crowns in the angles; large closed E in central panel, fine to good very fine £1,000-1,200 8.07 g / 124.5 gr (N. 1110; S.1481; cf. SCBI Schneider 3, 4), sometime cleaned and with a few light surface marks, very Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992. fine to good very fine, rare £2,000-3,000

Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992.

‡324 ‡321 Edward III, Fourth Coinage, Post-Treaty Period (1369- Edward III, Fourth Coinage, Pre-Treaty Period (1351-61), 77), noble, London mint, group I, obv., crescent on noble, London mint, Series C/E mule; obv., series C, ropes 3/3 forecastle, 7.37 g / 113.7 gr (N. 1277; S. 1517; SCBI (with mast end of stern ropes visible), rev., series E, small Schneider 107 (same dies)), obverse struck from rusty die, closed E in centre, 7.07 g / 109.1 gr (N. 1144/1160; S. 1486/ good very fine £1,200-1,500 1488; SCBI Schneider 21), edge lightly smoothed in places, good very fine with a strong portrait, very rare £1,200-1,500 Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992. Ex Prof. D.C. Baker Collection, Spink auction 161, 14 November 2002, lot 1.

‡325 Edward III, Fourth Coinage, Post-Treaty Period, noble, ‡322 Calais mint, group III, with tall, thin post-Treaty lettering, Edward III, Fourth Coinage, Treaty Period (1361-9), pellet after E in centre of reverse, 7.67 g / 118.4 gr (N. 1281; noble, London mint, obv., annulet before EDWARD, 7.58 g / S. 1521; SCBI Schneider 115), minor spademark on the 117.0 gr (N. 1232; S. 1503; SCBI Schneider 86), good very edge at IBAT, extremely fine £1,500-2,000 fine £1,000-1,200 Ex Pinchbeck Hoard, Christie’s, 28 February 1989 (lot 71) and Ex Spink auction 119, 4 March 1997, lot 2. Spink auction 101, 24 November 1993, lot 17. ‡326 ‡329 Richard II (1377-1399), noble, Calais mint, third type, with Henry IV, Light Coinage (1412-13), noble, London mint, French title, obv., flag at stern, legend ends AQ/T [die type V, obv., plain fore- and sterncastles, no mark on rudder, characterised by space after RIC ], rev., R in centre, reads annulet and slipped trefoil on ship’s side, rev., pellet and h in MEDIVM, 7.61 g / 117.4 gr (N. 1307; S. 1662 [formerly centre, slipped trefoil in third quarter, 6.78 g / 104.6 gr (N. 1661]; Webb Ware 3a; cf. SCBI Schneider 167-169, 1355; S. 1715; SCBI Schneider 204), scratched on obverse different dies), surface lightly scratched in field above and with a light creasemark, good fine, rare £2,000-2,500 shield, very fine and rare £1,500-2,000 Ex Prof. D.C. Baker Collection, Spink auction 161, 14 November Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992. 2002, lot 9.

‡327 ‡330 Henry IV (1399-1413), Heavy Coinage (1399-1409), Henry V (1413-1422), noble, London mint, class C, obv., mullet noble, London mint, type 1a (four lis in first quarter of by King’s wrist, broken annulet on ship’s side, rev., h in centre, shield), obv., crescent on rudder, four pellets in first quarter saltire in second quarter, reads Ih’C, 6.84 g / 105.6 gr (N. 1371; of shield and one in fourth quarter, nails on ship’s side to S. 1742; cf. SCBI Schneider 236 (same obverse die but from a right, rev., h in centre, 7.68 g / 118.5 gr (N. 1336a; S. 1705; different reverse die not represented)), good fine £600-800 SCBI Schneider 190 (same obverse die)), reverse centre weakly (and double-) struck, otherwise very fine or better Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 30 November 1995. and on a full flan, very rare £9,000-11,000

Ex Strauss Collection, Sotheby’s, 26 May 1994, lot 52 and Dix, Noonan & Webb auction, 8 October 2002, lot 1132.

‡328 ‡331 Henry IV, Heavy Coinage, noble, Calais mint, type 1b Henry VI, (First Reign 1422-1461), Annulet Issue (1422- (new arms, with three lis in first quarter of shield), obv., flag 30), noble, London mint, obv., annulet by King’s wrist, at stern, crown on rudder, nails on ship’s side to left, rev., h ornaments 1-1-1, rev., annulet in first spandrel of second in centre, possibly struck over R [cf. Mr. Schneider’s quarter, 6.96 g / 107.4 gr (N. 1414; S. 1799), a few surface observation of the London mint coin, Schneider 194], wt. marks and slightly soil-stained, very fine and clear £700-900 7.68 g / 118.5gr (N. 1339/1(b); S. 1708; SCBI Schneider 195a var. (from different dies)), some weakness of striking Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992. and a surface knock beside rudder but with minimal wear, very fine to good very fine, extremely rare £12,000-15,000

Ex Spink auction 161, 14 November 2002, lot 93. ‡332 ‡335 Henry VI, Annulet Issue, noble, York mint, obv., lis (for Henry VI, Trefoil (or Trefoil/Trefoil-Pellet mule?) Issue York) above stern of ship, annulet by King’s wrist, ornaments (1439-41 (or -45)), noble, London mint, obv., trefoil of three 1-1-1, rev., annulet in first spandrel of second quarter, 6.97 g / separate pellets to left of shield, ornaments -1-1-, reads 107.6 gr (N. 1414; S. 1799; SCBI Schneider -), extremely h/EnRIC [double saltire] DI’ [saltire] GRA [single (?) saltire] fine, with a strong portrait £2,000-2,500 REX [double saltire] AnGL’ [saltire] Z [saltire] FRAnC’ DS’ HIB’, R of FRAnC repunched (over n?), rev., i.m. lis, IhC Ex Spink auction 98, 17 June 1993, lot 309. See also enlargement [double saltire] AVTO [double saltire] TRASIEnS [double on front cover. saltire] PER [double saltire] MEDIVM [double saltire] ILLORV IBAT, 6.77 g / 104.5 gr (obverse as N. 1495; S. 1832; Whitton 32; SCBI Schneider 335, from a different die (but similarly with the unusual abbreviation DS); reverse not listed but see note below), good very fine, excessively rare, one of only two recorded specimens £6,000-8,000

The other known example, a die duplicate of the present coin, was included in the Fishpool Hoard (Glendining’s auction, 17 October 1968, lot 68). The suggestion that the reverse may represent the Trefoil-Pellet Issue (1443-45), to which no gold coins have yet been definitively ascribed, is based on the similarity of the symbols ‡333 to those found on Trefoil-Pellet groats. Henry VI, Rosette-Mascle Issue (1430-31), noble, London mint, obv., lis beside King’s wrist, rosette stops (no mascle), Ex Baldwin auction 24, 10 October 2000, lot 987. ornaments 1-1-1, rev., lis in second quarter, mainly rosette stops with mascle (not overpunched) after PER, no abbreviation mark after ILLOR, 6.97 g / 107.6 gr (N. 1439; S. 1817; SCBI Schneider 305-306 (same obverse die as 305 but reverse differs)), very fine or better and clear £1,500-2,000

Ex H.F. Cabell Collection (U.S.A.; sold privately to Spink, 1970’s) and Baldwin auction 24, 9 October 2000, lot 988.

‡336 Edward IV (First Reign 1461-1470), Heavy Coinage (1461-65), noble, London mint, type 1, with legend beginning at 11 o’clock, obv., lis to left of shield, pellets at each side of King’s crown, ornaments 1-1-1, EDWARD’ / DI / [saltire] GRA REX AnGL’. Z FRAnC DnS HYB’, rev., i.m. lis, E and pellet in centre, reads Ih’C AVT’ TRAnSIEnS PER MEDIVM ILLORV’ ‡334 [saltire] IBAT, 6.96 g / 107.4 gr (N. 1527; S. 1946; Blunt & Henry VI, Leaf-Trefoil Issue (1436-38), noble, London Whitton type I; SCBI Schneider 338, same obverse die), mint, obv., mainly leaf stops, with trefoil after REX, rev., i.m. obverse double-struck and showing a die flaw at DI, also with lis, IhC’AVT’ [leaf] TRAnCIEnS [leaf] PER MEDIVM [trefoil] a minor striking crack at 1 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine ILLOR’ [leaf] IBAT’ [leaf], 6.89 g / 106.3 gr (N. 1482; S. and very rare £8,000-10,000 1830; cf. SCBI Schneider 332-333 but with different reverse reading), double-struck, slightly buckled and with minor Ex Fishpool Hoard (Glendining’s auction, 17 October 1968, lot 73) striking cracks, otherwise generally good very fine and very and Baldwin’s auction, 7 May 2002, lot 588. rare £2,000-3,000 The Fishpool Hoard, discovered in 1966, contained 32 nobles of Ex Sotheby’s auction, 6 October 1994, lot 145; offered with an old type 1 and 30 of type 2; the issue had previously been known from ticket of Max Kiehn, Köln. only four specimens. ‡337 ‡340 Edward IV, Light Coinage (1465-70), ryal (or rose noble), Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Fine Gold Coinage of 1583-93, London mint, i.m. long cross fitchée (on reverse only), type ryal, m.m. Gothic A (1583-85; on reverse only), the type similar to the noble but with the additions of a rose on the essentially as Edward IV coins but with lifelike portrait of ship’s side, a banner bearing the letter E at ship’s stern and a the Queen holding orb and sceptre in place of sword and rose over large radiant sun in centre of the reverse, obv., shield, in ‘modern’ ship sailing to left rather than to right, ornaments two lions (no lis), rev., small trefoils in spandrels, with Gothic lettering, 7.56 g / 116.9 gr (N. 2004; S. 2530; initial mark double-punched, reads IhC’ [trefoil] AVT’ [trefoil] SCBI Schneider 784, same dies), very fine and very rare TRAnSIEnS PER [trefoil] MEDIVM ILLORV IBAT, 7.69 g / 118.7 gr £12,000-15,000 (N. 1549 type X; S.1951; Webb Ware dies 59/X; SCBI Schneider 379, same obverse die (but reverse not represented)), Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 9 December 1994. good very fine £800-1,200

Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992. SCOTLAND

‡338 ‡341 Edward IV, Light Coinage, ryal (or rose noble), Bristol James VI (1567-1625), Fifth Coinage, thistle noble, obv., mint, i.m. sun (on reverse only), mintmark B in waves crowned Scottish shield on ship, thistle on ship’s side, rev., below ship, rev., large fleurs in spandrels, reads IhC [trefoil] thistle on a saltire cross, with crowns at terminals, crowned AVT’ [trefoil] TRAnSIEnS [trefoil] PER [trefoil] MEDIVM lions in angles, 7.66 g / 118.2 gr (S. 5456; Stewart 191), [trefoil] ILLORVM [two trefoils] I [trefoil] BAT [two trefoils], very fine, on a full flan £2,500-3,500 7.64 g / 117.9 gr (N. 1550 type VI; S.1953), light traces of ring-mounting, otherwise better than very fine £600-800 Ex Marquess of Bute (Sotheby’s, 11 June 1951, lot 191) and R.D. Beresford Jones (Spink auction 108, 7 March 1995, lot 499) Collections. Ex Dix, Noonan & Webb auction, 16 November 1994, lot 340.

CONTINENTAL IMITATIONS

‡339 ‡342 Edward IV, Light Coinage, ryal (or rose noble), Bristol Flanders, Philip the Bold (1384-1404), noble, i.m. cross mint, i.m. crown (on reverse only), mintmark B in waves pattée, a contemporary imitation of a Richard II or Henry IV below ship, rev., small trefoils in spandrels, reads IhC’ prototype, obv., titles of Philip as Duke of Burgundy and [trefoil] AVT’ [reversed ‘] TRAnSIEnS [trefoil] PER [trefoil] Count of Flanders, with quartered shield of MEDIVM [trefoil] ILLORVM IBAT, 7.63 g / 117.7 gr (N. 1550 France/Burgundy, ‘small face’ portrait with three rosettes type VIII; S.1954; cf. SCBI Schneider 419, different dies), above in place of crown, rev., P in centre of floriated cross, portrait weak, fine or good fine £600-800 7.75 g / 119.6 gr (Delm. 474), extremely fine £3,000-4,000

Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons, 27 August 1992. Purchased A.H. Baldwin & Sons (as Delm. 481), 27 August 1992. ‡343 ‡346 Flanders, Philip the Bold (1384-1404), noble, i.m. cross Flanders, City of Ghent, noble, of small module and rather pattée, similar to the last but from different dies, with ‘large stark style, dated [15]81, i.m. lion, with initials N-T above face’ portrait and bolder lettering, 7.65 g / 118.1 gr (Delm. ropes in obverse field, lion emerging from sterncastle holding 474), very slightly buckled, good very fine £2,500-3,000 standard bearing ‘old style’ French arms decorated with four lis, rev., legend reads … CIVITA FRVSTRA…, 6.77 g / 104.5 gr Ex J. Elsen auction, 4 May 1993, lot 703. (cf. Delm. 527), extremely fine and a very rare variety £2,000-3,000

Ex J. Elsen auction 59, 18 September 1999, lot 1970.

‡347 Flanders, City of Ghent, noble, dated 1582, i.m. lion and with ‡344 initials N-T as before, rev., legend reads … VIGILATVR . 1582 ., Flanders, John the Fearless (1405-1419), noble, i.m. cross 6.76 g / 104.3 gr (cf. Delm. 530/532), double-struck and with a pattée, issued under the Law of 1407, broadly similar to light creasemark, very fine to good very fine £700-1,000 Philip the Bold coins above but with additional shield in arms, titles as before, rev., I in centre, 6.74 g / 104.0 gr Ex J. Elsen auction 59, 18 September 1999, lot 1971. (Delm. 478), good very fine to extremely fine but the portrait rather weak £1,000-1,500

Ex Laurens Schulman auction 16, 22 April 1996, lot 777.

‡348 Flanders, City of Ghent, noble, dated [15]82, type broadly similar to preceding coins but a variety with crowned clasped hands replacing lis in ship’s standard, rev., legend reads … VIGILANT . 82, 6.72 g / 103.7 gr (Delm. 533), extremely fine £2,000-3,000

Ex J. Elsen auction 59, 18 September 1999, lot 1972. ‡345 Flanders, Philip the Good (1419-1467), noble, i.m. cross pattée, similar but with the addition of a lion emerging from sterncastle of ship, rev., rosette in centre, 6.83 g / 105.4 gr (Delm. 483, different dies (and ship with a plain rudder)), very fine £1,000-1,500

Ex J. Elsen auction 62, 24 June 2000, lot 1237. ‡349 Flanders, City of Ghent, half-noble, dated [15]82, i.m. lion rampant, also with initials N-T above ropes, 3.41 g / 52.6 gr (Delm. 535), virtually as struck £1,000-1,500

Ex J. Elsen auction 59, 18 September 1999, lot 1974. ‡350 ‡353 Flanders, City of Ghent, noble, dated [15]83, without lion at Holland, Gorinchem, rose noble, undated (c. 1585-87), sterncastle but with lion of Flanders in ship’s standard, rev., i.m. crown, type similar to the Edward IV ryal but with the legend reads … VIGILANT . 82, 6.81 g / 105.2 gr (Delm. 538), arms of Arkel replacing central quatrefoil on forecastle, 7.55 lightly creased and with a small spademark, good very fine g /116.5 gr (Delm. 825 bis; Thompson, B.N.J. XXV (1947) £1,500-2,000 Group II, Class II; SCBI Schneider 854, same dies), light creasemark, generally very fine £700-900 Ex Urk Hoard; Laurens Schulman auction 17, 11 November 1996, lot 5043. Ex Laurens Schulman auction 14, 3 April 1995, lot 522.

‡354 Holland, Gorinchem, rose noble, undated, i.m. crown, C’s for E’s in reverse legend, 7.58 g / 117.0 gr (Delm. 825 ter; ‡351 Thompson, B.N.J. XXV (1947) Group II, Class IIIb; SCBI Flanders, City of Ghent, noble, dated [15]83, also without Schneider 866, same dies; S. 1952 ‘Flemish noble’), good lion at sterncastle but with lion of Flanders in ship’s very fine, with strong portrait £800-1,200 standard, of differing style to the last and with GAN for Ex Coin Investment auction 38, 25 November 1991, lot 38. GAND in legend, 6.79 g / 104.8 gr (cf. Delm. 538), sometime cleaned, very fine £1,000-1,500

Ex J. Elsen auction 59, 18 September 1999, lot 1973.

‡355 Holland, Vianen, Henry of Brederode (1556-1568), angel, in imitation of English type, obv., ship bearing Brederode arms, H-B by mast, MONE . NO . HE . DO [ ] BRE . LI . D . VIAN, rev., St. Michael spearing dragon, QVOD . IVSTVM . EST . IVDICATE, 5.07 g / 78.2 gr (Delm. 827), about very fine, with old collector’s ticket £700-1,000 Ex Sotheby’s auction, 16 November 2000, lot 637.

‡352 Gelderland, States Issue, rose noble, 1579, i.m. cross fleurie dividing date, obv., King holding Provincial shield, titles of Philip II . PHS ./ D/G . HISP . Z . REX . DVX . GEL . C . ZVT ., rev., CONCORDIA . RES . PARVAE . CRESCVNT ., 7.50 g / 115.7 gr (Delm. 634; v.G. & H. 255-6), traces of double- striking and rather buckled, fine to very fine, extremely rare £2,000-3,000 ‡356 Zeeland, Province of Zeeland, rose noble, i.m. tower, 7.61 Ex Laurens Schulman auction 13, 18 November 1994, lot 50. g / 117.4 gr (Delm. 871), from a hoard, good very fine and clear, rare £1,000-1,500 Ex Coin Investment auction 38, 25 November 1991, lot 221. ‡357 ‡361 Zeeland, Province of Zeeland, half rose noble, i.m. tower, Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, rose noble, i.m. shield, a similar type, 3.77 g / 58.2 gr (Delm. 872), also from a variety of the last reading TRAIECTEN, plain stops on hoard, light creasemark, good very fine £400-600 obverse, stops on reverse formed of four pellets, 7.59 g / 117.1 gr (cf. Delm. 959), some weakness of striking but Ex Laurens Schulman auction 15, 6 November 1995, lot 184. extremely fine, with original brilliance £800-1,200

Ex Laurens Schulman auction 13, 18 November 1994, lot 355.

‡358 Zeeland, Province of Zeeland, half rose noble, i.m. tower, sa variety of the last from different dies and with a larger standard, 3.76 g / 58.0 gr (Delm. 872), also from a hoard, good very fine £400-600

Ex Laurens Schulman auction 17, 11 November 1996, lot 365. ‡362 Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, rose noble, i.m. shield, a die variety of the last, 7.63 g / 117.7 gr (cf. Delm. 959), on a slightly uneven flan, virtually extremely fine and with a strong portrait £700-900

Ex Sotheby’s auction, 30 March 1995, lot 631.

‡359 Zeeland, Province of Zeeland, noble of Flemish type, dated [15]84, i.m. tower, obv., arms of Zeeland on shield and standard, reads DOMI/NE . SERVA . NOS . PERIMVS . / . ZEL, rev., MONETA . NOVA . AVREA . COMIT . ZELAND . 84, 6.78 g / 104.6 gr (Delm. 873), practically extremely fine £800-1,200

Ex Laurens Schulman auction, 19 November 2001, lot 700.

‡363 Overijssel, Province of Overijssel, rose noble, undated (c. 1580-82), i.m. saltire, obv., lion on standard, legend with saltire stops PHS/ . D/G . HISPANIAR . REX . A[.]O . . TR ANS/ISL., 7.58 g / 117.0 gr (Delm. 1036, from different dies to the plated coin), extremely fine and extremely rare, only a few specimens known £2,500-3,500 ‡360 Utrecht, Province of Utrecht, rose noble, i.m. shield, reads Ex Robert Schulman auction, 10 February 1993, lot 319. TRAI, with quatrefoil stops on both sides, 7.71 g / 119.0 gr (Delm. 958), minor marks, about extremely fine and clear £700-1,000

Ex Urk Hoard; Laurens Schulman auction 17, 11 November 1996, lot 5018. ‡364 ‡367 Overijssel, Province of Overijssel, rose noble, undated, i.m. City of Campen, rose noble, i.m. tower, obv., quartered crown, obv., C on standard, legend with mixed stops PHS/ . D./G arms on shield and C on standard, legend reads MON / . NO . . HISPANIAR . REX . A.O . TRANS/ISL., 7.64 g / 117.9 gr (Delm. AV . CIVI . CAMPEN . VALO . TRANS/ . ISVLAN ., rev., floriated 1037), edge a little ragged and slightly buckled, otherwise good cross placed in saltire (a diesinker’s error?), stops formed of very fine, very rare £1,500-2,000 four pellets, . CONCORDIA . RES . CRESCVNT ., 7.62 g / 117.6 gr (cf. Delm. 1106 (and note)), good very fine £800-1,200 Ex Urk Hoard; Laurens Schulman auction, 11 November 1996, lot 5019. Ex Laurens Schulman auction 25, 23 April 2001, lot 1313.

‡365 ‡368 Overijssel, Province of Overijssel, noble of Flemish type, City of Campen, rose noble, i.m. tower, a variety with the dated [15]83, i.m. lion, legend reads MO/NE . NOV . AVRE. C in standard reversed, legend reads TRAN/ . ISVLAN, 7.60 g ORDIN. TRANSISV/LANIÆ, with initials N-T above ropes, 6.70 / 117.3 gr (Delm. 1107), good very fine £600-800 g / 103.4 gr (Delm. 1039), a little weak in places but about extremely fine, lightly toned £800-1,200 Ex World-Wide Coins (J. Elmen) auction, 18 November 1999, lot 242. Ex Laurens Schulman auction, 19 November 2001, lot 1005.

‡366 ‡369 City of Campen, noble, undated, of Flemish type, obv., lion City of Campen, rose noble, i.m. tower, a further variety holding the arms of the City in shield and in the standard at with the C in standard over reversed C, legend reads TRANS the stern of the ship, legend reads MONE . AVR . CIVI . ./. ISVLAN, 7.59 g / 117.1 gr (Delm. 1108), portrait not fully CAMPEN . VALO/ . FLAN ., rev., . NISI . DOMINVS . struck up, virtually mint state £800-1,200 SERVAVERIT . CIVITATEM . FRVSTRA ., 6.74 g / 104.0 gr (Delm. 1102 var.), flan a little uneven but virtually as Ex World-Wide Coins (J. Elmen) auction, 13 June 1991, lot 248. struck, very rare £1,000-1,500

Ex Laurens Schulman auction 14, 3 April 1995, lot 1064. A COLLECTION OF FIVE-GUINEA PIECES, 1668-1753

370 373 Charles II, five-guineas, 1668, first head right, elephant Charles II, five-guineas, 1677, first head right, elephant and . below, rev., crowned cruciform shields with sceptres in castle below, rev., no stop after HIB, lettered edge reads ...... angles, interlocking C’s in centre, lettered edge reads ? . DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI VICESIMO NONO (S...... DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI VICESIMO (S. 3329), 3330), a couple of light surface marks, extremely fine very light wear, extremely fine, with attractive red-orange £5,000-7,000 toning around the devices and lettering £5,000-7,000

371 374 Charles II, five-guineas, 1669, first head right, elephant Charles II, five-guineas, 1681, second head right, plain ...... below, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN below, rev., no stop after HIB, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ...... ANNO REGNI VICESIMO PRIMO (S. 3329; SCBI Schneider ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO TERTIO ? (S. 423), extremely fine or better, with some original mint lustre 3331), a few minor surface scratches and marks, about £6,000-8,000 extremely fine £4,000-6,000

372 375 Charles II, five-guineas, 1673, 73 of date over 69, first head Charles II, five-guineas, 1684, second head right, elephant . . . . right, plain below, lettered edge reads DECVS ET and castle below, rev., no stop after HIB, lettered edge reads ...... TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI VICESIMO QVINTO (S. 3328), ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI TRICESIMO SEXTO struck from slightly worn and flawed dies, about extremely ?. (S. 3332; SCBI Schneider 423), light flan flecks, fine £5,000-7,000 extremely fine £5,000-7,000

Struck from the same reverse die as the preceding lot (and as Schneider 423); the coins show identical die flaws, notably behind the lower leopard in the English shield. The overdate is not noted in the standard references. 376 379 James II, five-guineas, 1686, first head left, plain below, rev., William and Mary, five-guineas, 1692, conjoined heads crowned cruciform shields with sceptres in angles (the lis and right, plain below, rev., crowned and garnished Royal shield harp terminals of which are transposed as is usual for this date), with the arms of Orange in the centre, lettered edge reads ?...... pellet in centre, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI QVARTO ? (S. 3422), . . . . ANNO REGNI SECVNDO ? (S. 3396; SCBI Schneider 451), about extremely fine £4,000-6,000 with a rim bruise before bust and several scratches in the obverse field which have been partially erased by light tooling, otherwise good very fine £1,500-2,000

377 380 James II, five-guineas, 1687, first head left, elephant and William and Mary, five-guineas, 1692, conjoined heads castle below, rev., crowned cruciform shields similar to the right, elephant and castle below, lettered edge reads ?...... last but with the sceptre terminals corected, lettered edge DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI QVARTO ? (S. 3423), ...... reads ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI TERTIO ? (S. a few flan flecks but good extremely fine, with much original 3398; SCBI Schneider 452), sometime cleaned, very fine mint lustre £6,000-8,000 £2,500-2,500 Struck from different dies to the preceding lot but using the same edge collar (in a slightly later state).

378 381 James II, five-guineas, 1688, second head left, plain below, William III, five-guineas, 1699, first head right, elephant ...... lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI and castle below, rev., crowned cruciform shields with . . QVARTO ? (S. 3397A), one very minor edge bruise, sceptres in angles, lion of Nassau in centre, lettered edge ...... extremely fine with light orange toning £5,000-7,000 reads ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI UNDECIMO [both V’s from an inverted A punch, U for V in UNDECIMO] (S. 3455; cf. SCBI Schneider 479), on a slightly irregular flan, with tiny rim knock above wreath and a few minor surface marks, generally extremely fine and lightly toned, very rare £7,000-9,000 382 385 William III, five-guineas, 1700, first head right, plain Anne, Post-Union Coinage, five-guineas, 1706, first bust . . . . . below, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO left, rev., second type, crowned cruciform shields with arms . . REGNI DVODECIMO (S. 3454), extremely fine or better of England and Scotland combined, a Garter star in centre, . . . . . £5,000-7,000 lettered edge reads DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI QVINTO (S. 3566; SCBI Schneider 529), the obverse with adjustment marks and showing some minor scuffing at the periphery, otherwise good extremely fine and reverse better, a sharp striking £5,000-7,000

383 386 William III, five-guineas, 1701, ‘fine work’ type, second Anne, Post-Union Coinage, five-guineas, 1709, first bust head right, plain below, rev., normal (less ornate) sceptres in left, rev., third type, similar to the last but with narrower . . . . angles, no stops after MAG, FRA or HIB, lettered edge reads ? crowned shields, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET ...... DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI DECIMO TERTIO ? (S. TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI OCTAVO (S. 3567; SCBI 3456; SCBI Schneider 480), extremely fine £4,000-6,000 Schneider 530), minor surface and edge marks, good very fine, lightly toned £3,000-4,000

Struck from the same obverse die as lot 384 (i.e. 1706 Pre-Union issue).

384 387 Anne, Pre-Union Coinage, five-guineas, 1706, first bust Anne, Post-Union Coinage, five-guineas, 1711, second bust left, rev., first type, crowned cruciform shields with sceptres left, rev., fourth type, with wider crowned shields similar to . . . . in angles, a rose in centre, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET second type but with larger lettering, lettered edge reads ? ...... TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI QVINTO (S. 3560; SCBI Schneider DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI DECIMO (S. 3568; 524), on a broad flan as usual for this issue, extremely fine, SCBI Schneider 531), a couple of tiny rim bruises and lightly toned £5,000-7,000 surface marks, extremely fine or better £5,000-7,000 388 391 George I, five-guineas, 1726, head right, rev., crowned George II, five-guineas, 1746, old head left, LIMA. below, cruciform shields rearranged to incorporate the arms of rev., crowned quartered shield as before but with revised . . . . Brunswick-Lüneberg, sceptres and their terminals in angles as garniture, lettered edge reads DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO ...... before, lettered edge reads DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI DECIMO NONO (S. 3665; Schneider dies 8/8; SCBI . . REGNI DECIMO TERTIO [all N’s upside down as is usual for Schneider 564), extremely fine £5,000-7,000 this date] (S. 3626; cf. SCBI Schneider 542), good very fine £3,000-4,000

389 392 George II, five-guineas, 1729, young head left, plain below, George II, five-guineas, 1748, old head left, plain below, . . rev., crowned quartered shield, lettered edge reads ? DECVS rev., similar to the last, lettered edge reads DECVS ET ...... ET TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI TERTIO (S. 3663; Schneider TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI VICESIMO SECVNDO (S. 3666; dies 1/1; SCBI Schneider 555), extremely fine to good Schneider dies 9/9; SCBI Schneider 565), a few tiny marks, extremely fine £5,000-7,000 good extremely fine £5,000-7,000

390 393 George II, five-guineas, 1729, young head left, E.I.C. below, George II, five-guineas, 1753, old head left, plain below, . . . . . rev., similar to the last, lettered edge reads ? DECVS ET rev., similar, lettered edge reads DECVS ET TVTAMEN ANNO . . . . . TVTAMEN ANNO REGNI TERTIO (S. 3664; Schneider dies REGNI VICESIMO SEXTO (S. 3666; Schneider dies 10/10; 2/2; SCBI Schneider 556), tiny jeweller’s mark on the edge SCBI Schneider 566), characterised by double-striking of the and surface has been smoothed at the King’s cheek to erase edge lettering, good extremely fine £5,000-7,000 a scratch, otherwise good very fine £1,500-2,000 Other Properties

394 399 Ancient British, Belgae, British D, Cheriton type gold George I, half-guinea, 1726, older head (S. 3637), weak at stater, celticised head of Apollo, rev., horse left, 5.10 g. (S. reverse centre, very fine to good very fine £300-400 24; BMC 86; van Arsdell 1215-1), very fine £150-200

395 Ancient British, Whaddon Chase, stater, celticised head, rev., horse right (S. 32; van Arsdell 1476-1), about very fine £140-180 400 George II, five-guineas, 1729, young head type, edge reads TERTIO (S. 3663), small edge knock, about very fine £1,200-1,500

401 George II, five-guineas, 1741, edge reads DECIMO QVARTO (S. 3663A), obverse damaged from removal of brooch mount, otherwise fine £400-600

402 396 George III, guineas (3), 1774, 1787, 1788, generally fine to Charles II, five-guineas, 1678 over 7, first bust type, edge very fine (3) £200-300 reads TRICESIMO (S. 3328), has been mounted, otherwise about very fine £1,400-1,600

403 397 George III, guinea, 1790 (S. 3729), about extremely fine Charles II, guinea, 1673, fourth bust (S. 3344), fair to fine £200-250 £150-200 404 George III, guinea, 1795, good fine, scarce £150-200

405 George III, half-guineas (2), 1797, 1804 and third-guinea, 1806, this with 8 and 6 of date punched low and misaligned, generally very fine (3) £200-300

398 William and Mary, five-guineas, 1693, plain below busts, edge reads QVINTO (S. 3422), some light marks, good very fine £2,300-2,600 406 George III, guinea, 1798, nearly extremely fine £250-300 407 417 George III, guinea, 1798 (S. 3729), good very fine; with half- Victoria, Jubilee, 1887, five-pounds, two edge bumps, very guinea, 1789, mounted, good fine; South Africa, pond, 1898, fine; Edward VII, sovereign, 1907P, very fine (2) £380-420 good very fine; and large bronze medal for the Diamond Jubilee, 1897, very fine, some verdigris (4) £220-250 418 Victoria, Jubilee, 1887, five-pounds, polished, very fine, 408 and Austrian restrike 4 ducats, 1915, in gold ring mount, George III, third-guineas (4), 1800, 1802, 1804, 1806, good very fine (2) £480-520 second countermarked on bust, fine, others good fine to very fine; sovereign, 1817, very good; half-guineas (2), 1804, 419 date uncertain, one mounted, the other pierced and a George Victoria, Jubilee head sovereigns (6), 1887 (3), 1887 M, IV sovereign, 1829, pierced (8) £300-350 1888, 1889 M, extremely fine or better (6) £300-350

420 Victoria, Jubilee head sovereigns (17), 1887 (5), 1888 (2), 1888 M, 1888 S, 1890, 1891, 1892 (5), 1892 M and half- sovereign, 1887, many very fine (18) £850-900

409 421 George III, sovereign, 1820, ‘open 2’ in date, surface Victoria, Jubilee head sovereigns (17), 1888 s, 1889, 1889 scratched in reverse field, good very fine £250-350 M (2), 1890 (2), 1890 M, 1890 S, 1891 (4), 1891 M, 1892, 1892 M, 1893 M, 1893 S, many very fine, some better (16) 410 £800-850 George IV, sovereigns (2), 1822, 1826 and William IV, sovereign, 1836, fine and better (3) £200-300 422 Victoria, old head sovereigns (16), 1893 (2), 1894, 1895, 1895 S, 1896 M, 1897 M, 1898, 1899 (2), 1899 M (2), 1900 (3), 1901, half-sovereign, 1900 and Z.A.R. pond, 1894, many very fine (18) £850-900

423 Edward VII, Coronation, 1902, five-pounds, almost extremely fine £400-450 411 George IV, two-pounds, 1823 (S. 3798), some obverse scratches, about extremely fine £600-800 424 Edward VII, sovereign, 1904 P; half-sovereigns (2), both 412 1910, very fine; maundy set, 1908, in dated case; together George IV, sovereign, 1829; Victoria, sovereigns (2), both with proof sets (13), 1970, 1971, 1982-1992 and modern 1862 and half-sovereign, 1883, first with scratches in obv. proof silver coins (13), all cased, Mexico, 8 reales, 1842, field, about fine to good fine (4) £180-220 virtually as struck; other miscellaneous coins in silver and base metal including crown-sized (11), mixed grades (lot) £450-550 413 Victoria, young head sovereigns (14), 1853, St. George type (13), 1876, 1884 (2), Melbourne mint (9), 1873, 1879 (3), 425 1882, 1884 (2), 1885, 1886, 1880 S, mostly very fine (14) George VI, Coronation, 1937, proof set of 19 coins, £680-720 comprising gold five-pound, two-pounds, sovereign and half-sovereign, silver crown to bronze farthing, gold with a few minor hairlines, otherwise mint state, in two cases of 414 issue (19) £1,200-1,500 Victoria, young head sovereigns (15), all St. George, 1871, 1876, 1884, all London, 1878 (2), 1879 (2), 1880, 1881, 1886, 1887, all Melbourne, 1873, 1875, 1885, 1886, all 426 Sydney, mostly good fine to very fine (15) £720-750 Elizabeth II, set of young head sovereigns, comprising 1957-1959 and 1962-1968, extremely fine, contained in 415 lucite holder (10) £500-520 Victoria, sovereign, 1873, rev., shield, die no. 5, extremely fine and George V, sovereigns (2), 1916 (London), 1916 M 427 virtually as struck; with Portugal, Luis I, 2,000 reis, 1866, fine Elizabeth II, uncirculated five-pounds, 1988 (S. 4252), and Switzerland, 20 francs, 1947, mint state (5) £200-250 virtually as struck, in case and capsule of issue £240-260

416 428 Victoria, Jubilee, 1887, set of four gold coins, comprising Guineas (2), 1698, 1713, sovereigns (2), 1828, 1887 (2) and five-pounds, two-pounds, sovereign and half-sovereign, all a Z.A.R. pond, 1898, all damaged due to mounting, fair to with surface and edge marks, extremely fine (4) £800-900 fine (6) £350-400 429 433 Guinea, 1789, ex-mount; sovereign, 1909 P, half-sovereigns Alderney, gold proof two-pounds, 1990, Queen Mother’s (4), 1885, 1908, 1912, 1913, mainly fine; Austria, restrike 4 ninetieth birthday (KM 2b), mint state, in capsule and ducats, 1915; Canada, 10 dollars (¼ oz.), 1982, as struck; (slightly damaged) case of issue, rare [90 pieces struck]; Denmark, 20 kroner, 1914, very fine; and Portugal, 1000 and a British sovereign, 2000, uncirculated (2) £500-600 reis, 1691, good (10) £400-450 434 430 Alderney, gold proof two-pounds, 1992, Fortieth Anniversary Sovereigns (4), 1891 M, 1905 M, 1908 P, 1914, half-sovereigns of the Queen’s accession (KM 3b), mint state, in case and (4), 1887, 1893, 1897, 1911, very fine or better; together with capsule as issued [150 pieces issued]; gold proof £25, Fortieth miscellaneous mainly British issues, mostly silver (2), Anniversary of the Coronation (KM 6), mint state, in capsule including Newcastle halfcrown, 1811, shilling, 1812, Bank of and (slightly damaged) case of issue (2) £500-600 England 3 shillings, 1812 and eighteenpence, 1811, very fine or better (35) £340-380 435 Isle of Man, set of four coins, 1973, gold five-pounds to half- 431 sovereign (KM MS3), virtually as struck, cased (4) £420-450 Sovereigns (14), 1894 S, 1898 M, 1899 M, 1900 (2), 1900 M, 1902, 1907 (3), 1908 S, 1909, 1911, 1912, very fine and 436 better (14) £650-700 Isle of Man, set of four coins, 1973, gold five-pounds to half-sovereign (KM MS3), small toning spot on five- 432 pounds, otherwise virtually as struck, cased; together with Half-Sovereigns (7), 1842, 1885, 1893, 1907, 1909, 1913, Manx sovereign, 1973, uncirculated, and miscellaneous 1914, first two good very fine and almost extremely fine, modern commemorative medals etc. (6) including silver others very fine or better (7) £250-280 (3), good very fine to uncirculated (11) £480-520

ENGLISH SILVER AND BRONZE COINS

442 Henry III, Long Cross Coinage, Class IIIc pennies (2), Norwich, Willem, Wilton, Huge, very fine (2) £80-100

443 437 Henry III, Long Cross Coinage, pennies (5), Class Vb (2), Vikings of Northumbria, Sievert-Siefred-Cnut group (c. both London, Nicole and Ricard, Class Vc, London, 895-902), Group I, Ebraice Civitas series, penny, cross pattée Willem, Class Vg (2), Canterbury, Alein, London, Walter; with pellet in second and fourth quarter, rev., patriarchal cross Edward I, Long Cross Coinage (1272-79), Class VII, penny, (N. 497; S. 987), almost extremely fine £200-250 London, Phelip, fine to very fine (6) £120-150

438 444 Henry II-III, Short Cross pennies (5), comprising Class Ic, Henry III, Long Cross Coinage, Class Vg, Durham, Roger, London, Davi, Class Vbii, London, Willelm, Class Vc, centre weak, very fine and very rare £120-150 London, Abel, Class VIIa, Canterbury, Ioan, Class VIIb, Canterbury, Simon, fine or better (5) £80-100

439 Short Cross pennies of London (3) and Canterbury (1); Long Cross pennies of London (4) and Durham (1); together with a 445 sterling of William of Hainaut, Bishop of Cambrai (1285- Edward I, Class 1a/c penny, London (SCBI North 22), 96), a medieval jeton with portrait (from a penny punch?) and good fine and rare £150-200 a Wembley Exhibition copy of an Alfred the Great penny, one coin pierced, generally fine to very fine (12) £80-120

440 Henry III, Long Cross Coinage (1247-72), Class IIIb pennies (2), Exeter, Walter, Hereford, Heneri, very fine (2) £80-120 446 441 Edward I, Class 1d penny, London, with annulet below Henry III, Long Cross Coinage, Class IIIb pennies (3), all bust for the Abbot of Reading (SCBI North 45/46 var.), very Newcastle, Ion (2), Henri, generally very fine (3) £80-120 fine and clear, rare £150-200 447 455 Edward I, Class 3g, penny, Bury St. Edmunds, Robert de Charles II, crowns (3), 1662 (2), 1671, one 1662 good fine, Hadelie (SCBI North 198), edge fault, very fine and scarce; the other about fine, 1671 fine; later halfcrowns (3) 1689 other pennies (26), Edward I-III, of Berwick, Bristol (3), (2), 1745 LIMA, generally fine; together with miscellaneous Bury St. Edmunds (2), Canterbury (9), Durham (3), Exeter, English and foreign coins (11), some in silver, many fine Newcastle (5), York Royal (2) (27) £300-500 £300-400

448 456 Edward I, London mint pennies (4), Class 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, Charles II, pattern farthing, 1665, in silver, short-haired bust fourth chipped, otherwise good fine, others very fine, first left, rev., Britannia, edge vertically milled 24.1 mm. (B.M.C. rare (4) £100-150 407), obverse scratched, otherwise very fine £120-150

Last two ex Shirley-Fox collection. 457 Charles II – George IV, shillings (8), 1668, 1696, 1702 449 plain, 1711, 1745 LIMA, 1816, 1817, 1826 and sixpences (7), Edward I-II, London pennies (41), Class 1c-14, London 1696 (2), 1723 SSC, 1757, 1758, 1787 (2), mixed grades halfpennies (3), class 3b, 3e and Edward III, 3rd coinage, very good to good very fine (15) £150-200 London farthings (2) class 3g and 4, many very fine (46) £400-600 458 Charles II – George III, small silver fourpences (11), 450 threepences (12), twopences (8) and pennies (4), many very Edward III, Fourth Coinage, London halfgroat, Pre-Treaty fine; William IV, Britannia groats, 1836 (2) and Victoria, Series C; Henry VII, Facing bust groat, m.m. greyhound’s maundy and small silver coins (11), including 4d., 2d. and head; Henry VIII, London groats of the Second Coinage 1d., 1888 and a complete cased set, 1901, good very fine to (5) and Posthumous Coinage (1), some faults, generally fair mint state (48) £180-220 to fine (8) £150-200 459 451 George I, ‘Dump’ issue, halfpenny, 1717, variety without Edward VI, Fine silver issue, shillings (2), both m.m. tun, stops on obverse (B.M.C. 769; S. 3659), reverse faults, Mary, groat, and Philip and Mary, sixpence, 1554 (N. otherwise better than fine and rare; pennies (2), 1806, 1853, 1970; S. 2505), all creased or knocked, fair to fine, groat halfpennies (2), 1750, 1799 and Ireland, George I, Wood’s rather better (4) £150-200 halfpenny, 1722, second reverse (S. 6601), very fine or better (6) £100-150 452 Elizabeth I - Charles II, miscellaneous silver coins (18), 460 including hammered shilling and sixpence of Elizabeth, George I – Edward VII, maundy and small silver sets (6), milled sixpences of Elizabeth (2), Oxford groat, 1644 comprising 1727, 1786, 1822, 1830, 1891, 1906, first two (Brooker 957), York shilling (Brooker 1097), sixpence, 1654 both very fine, others mainly extremely fine or better (24) and a Commonwealth halfgroat; with copper Royal farthings £400-500 of James I (1), Charles I (1) and a rose farthing, mixed grades poor to fine, halfgroat and farthings better (21) £180-220 461 George II, sixpences (2), 1757, 1758; William IV, 453 sixpence, 1831; Victoria, halfcrowns (2), 1884, 1887 JH, Charles I, Tower mint, Type 2c, halfcrown, m.m. portcullis florins (2), 1852, 1887 JH, shillings (5), 1883, 1887 JH, (N. 2207; S.2769), weak in places; another, m.m. P in circle, 1895, 1898, 1901 and sixpence, 1887 JH, mainly good very on a small flan, fine; shilling, m.m. harp, fine; together with fine to extremely fine (13) £200-300 miscellaneous English hammered silver issues (17) and Roman silver (2), generally poor to fair (23) £150-200 462 George III, farthing, 1773, good very fine, trace of lustre and twopences, 1797 (2), about very fine; with regal copper (18) and bronze (2) of Charles II – Victoria, fair to extremely fine, some scarce (23) £120-150

463 George III, ‘Cartwheel’ twopence, 1797, edge bruises, about extremely fine; other copper (9); Corinthian stater (corroded) and ancient bronze (18), including as of Diadumenian; and a cast medal of Hadrian (after Cavino), ‡454 mainly fine and better (30) £200-250 Oliver Cromwell, halfcrown, 1658, by Thomas Simon, laureate bust of Cromwell left, rev., crowned shield of the 464 Protectorate (E.S.C. 447; S. 3227A), a small flan crack on Victoria, miscellaneous silver coins, halfcrowns to sixpences, the reverse rim at 3 o’clock, good extremely fine and well total weight 2.2 kg, typically well circulated, generally poor toned £1,800-2,200 to fine (lot) £200-300 475 Halfcrowns (36), comprising 1874, 1893, 1897, 1906, 1923, 1929, 1937-51 and 1953-67; double-florins (3), 1887, good fine, 1889, 1890, extremely fine or better except where stated (39) £450-550

476 Halfcrowns (19), 1689 (gilt), 1696 (2), 1707 E (2), 1708 E, 1713, 1816-18 (5), 1823-29 (6), 1896; shillings (20), 1696, 1697, 1712, 1723 SSC, 1745 LIMA, 1758, 1787 (3), 1816-34 465 (11); sixpences (33), of William III-George II (12) and Victoria, ‘Gothic’ crown, 1847, lettered edge reads UNDECIMO George III-George V (21); with 1887 double-florin, (E.S.C. 288; S. 3883), slight edge marks, otherwise good Austrian thaler, 1858A, Prussian thaler, 1871A, 5 marks, extremely fine and grey toned £1,000-1,500 1898, 3 marks, 1913A (KM 534), and Z.A.R. halfcrown, 1895, many well-circulated and a few damaged but some 466 fine or better (78) £250-300 Victoria, ‘Gothic’ crown, 1847, similar type, sometime polished and with obverse scratches, about very fine £300-400 477 Small silver and maundy coins, comprising mixed date 467 ‘sets’ of Charles II (2), James II (only fine, penny damaged), Victoria, ‘Gothic’ crown, 1847, plain edge (E.S.C. 291), William and Mary and Queen Anne; with other small silver impaired proof, minor marks, very fine £400-500 (13), mainly very fine or better (33) £300-400

468 478 Edward VII, maundy sets (2), 1902, 1908, in dated cases of Silver threepences, mainly pre-1920, total weight 6.2 kg, issue, virtually mint state; et infra (3) (11) £80-100 mainly fine, some better (lot) £400-600

469 479 Edward VII, halfcrown and shilling, both 1905, about fine Pre-1920 silver coins, mainly of George V, some of and rare (2) £150-200 Edward VII, total weight approx. 10.7 kg, from circulation, poor to about fine (lot) £600-800 470 Edward VII, halfcrowns (13), 1902, 1903, 1904 (2), 1906 480 (3), 1907 (3- one good very fine with slight edge bruises), Miscellaneous: Mainly English silver (45) and base metal 1908 (2), 1909; florins (9), 1902, 1903 (2), 1904, 1906, (about 330) coins, including many 17th-19th century issues in 1907 (2), 1910 (2); and shillings (8), 1902, 1904 (2), 1906- worn condition and a few 1920’s-30’s pieces in mint 1910, mainly fine (30) £250-300 condition; the lot also containing representative Manx, Channel Islands and Lundy issues and some modern 471 coinage, mixed grades and quality (about 375) £150-200 George V, Coronation, 1911, proof set of eight silver coins, comprising halfcrown to maundy penny, toned, mint state, 481 in red leather case of issue (8) £250-300 Miscellaneous: British silver and base metal coins, mainly circulated 20th century issues but including crown, 1887, very 472 fine, proof crowns (2), 1977, as struck and cased, shillings, George V, crown, 1931 and proof florin, 1927, both virtually 1898, 1899, extremely fine, some in albums, some fine or as struck; with various crowns (15), comprising 1681, 1819, better; and miniature military medals (9) (lot) £200-300 1820, 1821 (2), 1822, 1847 YH, 1887, 1889 (3), 1890, 1891, 1892, 1935, some fine (17) £250-300 482 Miscellaneous: A very large quantity of 20th century mainly 473 British coinage, including some pre-1947 silver, from George VI, proof set, 1950, comprising halfcrown to circulation, 1951 crowns (9, boxed), proof sets for 1970, farthing, some verdigris, mint state, in case of issue; with 1972 (2), 1973, 1975 and 1976, modern medals, and maundy set, 1896, crowns (12), silver threepences (70), other approximately 60 mother of pearl counters (lot) £200-300 coins and medals (33), mixed grades (128) £100-150 483 474 Tokens: 17th Century: Monmouthshire, Abergavenny (W. Crowns (4), 1673, 1822, 1845, fine, 1889, a few edge marks, 2), brass, fine and clear; with others (4) of Somerset, otherwise extremely fine; with miscellaneous English and Taunton (W. 227), Bristol (2) and Surrey, Putney (W. foreign coins and medals (109), many fine (113) £200-300 215/6), fair to fine (5) £70-100

474A 484 British silver coins (51), including crowns, 1676-1937 (8), Tokens: 18th Century: Range of approximately 150 mainly Bank of England dollar, 1804, halfcrowns, 1689-1818 (7) and English halfpennies, also including a few farthings and a shillings, 1668-1787 (15), some fine, two 1787 shillings bronzed proof Hornchurch (Essex) halfpenny (D. & H. 33), this extremely fine; with British and other banknotes (29), including scuffed, about extremely fine, others generally fair to very fine, a worn Treasury 10/- (D. T30), some fine (80) £350-450 a few better and retaining some lustre (about 150) £200-300 485 489 Tokens: 18th Century halfpennies (28) and imitation regal Ireland, Hiberno-Norse Issues, Phase II, c. 1015-35, penny halfpennies (3); 19th Century pennies (8), halfpennies (2), with blundered name of Sihtric, cross pommée on neck, rev., many fine; together with miscellaneous mainly base metal pellet in each quarter of reverse, 0.87 g. (cf. S. 6125; SCBI 8, world coins (a few hundred), including a Canadian 50 cents dies not represented), fine £100-150 1903 H, German East Africa half-rupie, 1901 and a Norwegian 5 øre, 1920, many fine (lot) £120-150 490 486 Ireland, John as Lord of Ireland, Second ‘Dominus’ Tokens: 19th Century: Miscellaneous issues of c. 1811-12, coinage, c. 1190-99, Group 1b, halfpenny, Dublin, moneyer country-wide but some of West Country interest; comprising Norman; as King, ‘Rex’ coinage, c.1207-11, penny, Dublin, silver shillings (3) and sixpences (2), copper twopences (3, moneyer Roberd (S. 6228), both very fine (2) £100-150 including Temlett & Clarke’s, Wiveliscombe), pennies (41) and halfpennies (14), mixed grades and quality; with a further 491 group of 35 pieces, mostly later 19th Century tokens, Ireland, Edward IV, Light ‘Cross and Pellets’ coinage, advertising pieces, jetons, good-fors and a coin weight, mostly 1473-78?, groats (2), Drogheda, G on breast, annulets by fine or better (98) £200-300 neck (S. 6338), right hand legend rather clipped, fine; Waterford, G on breast (S. 6349), very fine (2) £150-200

492 Ireland, Edward VI, ‘Posthumous’ coinage in the name of Henry VIII, sixpence, bust IV (S. 6488), James I, First coinage, sixpence, m.m. bell (S. 6514), two scratches on obv., otherwise almost very fine (2) £100-120

493 Ireland, Philip and Mary, groats (2), 1555, 1557 (S. 6501, 6501B), second with scratch on obverse, otherwise better than fine (2) £120-150

494 Ireland, Elizabeth I, Base coinage, 1558, groat (S.6503), edges rather ragged, otherwise very fine; Third coinage (1601-02), base threepence, m.m. trefoil, penny, 1602, halfpenny, 1602 (S. 6509, 6510, 6511A), first fair, others fine and better (4) £150-200 Ex 487 (detail) 487 495 Pencil Drawings: Two pencil sketches by Gilbert Ledward, Ireland, The Great Rebellion, Ormonde Money, sixpence R.A. (1888-1960), both equestrian portraits of P.O. Jean and groat (S. 6547, 6548), both nearly fine (2) £100-150 Emerson riding Winston, both signed by the artist, one titled and dated ‘20th Aug 1952’ and the other dated ‘1952’; prepared in connection with Ledward’s designs both for the 496 Queen’s Great Seal and for Her Majesty’s portrait on the Ireland, Charles II, St. Patrick farthing (S. 6569), about Coronation commemorative crown of 1953, each 350 x 250 fine; George I, Wood’s coinage, farthing, 1723 (S. 6604), mm., in very fine condition (2) £400-600 very fine; George III, farthing, 1806, (S. 6622), an impaired proof, extremely fine; George IV, penny, 1823 (S. 6623), Presented by the artist to Miss Emerson, who was chosen as a model good very fine (4) £120-150 for the Royal portrait. Gilbert Ledward’s Great Seal continued in use from 1953 until the summer of 2001, when it was replaced due to wear. 497 The 1953 crown design was widely acclaimed and further equestrian portraits have featured on the Jubilee crowns of 1977 and 2002. Ireland, James II, Limerick besieged, 1690-91, halfpenny, 1691, overstruck on large ‘Gunmoney’ shilling (S. 6594), very fine or better, undertype clear on reverse £80-120 SCOTTISH AND IRISH COINS (See also lot 341) 498 488 Ireland, hammered silver (4), comprising Edward I Waterford Scotland, Alexander III, Second coinage, c.1280-92, pennies penny, groat, 1561 and James I shilling and sixpence, first two (5), Ma, 24 points, Mc (2), 21 and 26 points, E (2), 20 and 28 pierced, poor to fine; James II, ‘Gunmoney’ issues (8), points (S. 5053, 5055, 5056), generally very fine; Ireland, including sixpence, July. 1689, this very fine or better, others Edward I, Class 1a penny, Dublin, fine; Flanders, Robert of poor to fine; with miscellaneous generally Irish (and also a few Béthune (1305-22), imitative sterling, Alost mint, very fine (7) Scottish) coins, tokens and jetons (58), mostly base metal but a £100-150 few silver, c. 1680 (Armstrong and Legge) – 1928 (Free State), mixed grades and quality (70) £200-300 499 A Silver Cup and Cover set with coins: a large Victorian silver two-handled cup and cover, hallmarked London 1884 with maker’s mark JBH, the inside of the base inscribed: This Cup and Cover weighing oz 61.8 was made to preserve 44 Coins of English History, the cup with 36 silver coins (representing one of each monarch (not always accurately), identified with the monarch’s name and accessional date engraved above and below each piece) set into the body of the cup, and broadly comprising pennies of William I to Edward II, groats of Edward III to Henry VIII (the groats of ‘Henry IV’ and ‘Henry V’ are in fact both of Henry VI), shilling of Edward VI, sixpences of Mary and Elizabeth I, shilling of James I, halfcrown of Charles I, shilling of the Commonwealth and halfcrowns of Oliver Cromwell to William IV, the domed cover set with 8 silver Victorian coins of Britain and her Colonies, comprising florins (2), East India Company rupee, British Indian rupees (2), half-dollar of Hong Kong and 50 cents (2) of Canada and Newfoundland, all arranged around an Heraldic Lion holding the British Coat of Arms which is removable by means of unscrewing an 1887 crown fixed inside the lid, 15 ins. high, 13.5 ins wide, wt. 2.08 kg., in very fine condition £1,500-2,000 Since the cup includes a crown of 1887, it may well have been assembled to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee. Lot 499

500 Coin Scales: a German 18th century set of coin scales and weights by Joh. Wilhelm Forsthoff of Solingen, the plain rectangular box containing a set of steel scales with brass pans, 22 square coin weights for various coin denominations and a compartment containing five fractional weights (lacking the smallest fraction), the inside of the lid with printed details of the maker, 190 x 105 x 25 mm., in very fine condition £400-600

Lot 500

501 Garrett’s Improved Gold Changer, a late 19th – early 20th century steel device for changing sovereigns and half- sovereigns into silver coinage, the domed, hinged and lockable front decorated in art nouveau style with two slots for the gold coins and two corresponding drawers below to deliver the change, a larger central slot for return of used trays, and with printed directions for use and (machine no.) 5023 on the inside; each side of the changer fitted with a column for sorting the centrally pierced tin circular change holders, 15 in. high x 9¼ ins. wide x 6 ins. deep, in working order and excellent original condition £400-600

Especially popular in clubs, these efficient slot machines became obsolete in 1914. For a Garrett’s ‘Bijou’ Gold Changer, see Sotheby’s, 16th February 1972, lot 819.

Lot 501 HISTORICAL AND COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS

GREAT BRITAIN

Property from the Estate of the late Lord Gibson-Watt, P.C., M.C.

502 Memorial to Matthew Boulton, 1819, silver-gilt medal by Pidgeon, obv., bust of Boulton right in high relief, the effigy after P. Rouw, rev., legend INVENTAS AVT QVI VITAM EXCOLVERE PER ARTIS in laurel wreath, lettered edge reads PATRIS AMICIS M.R.B. and dated 1819 in Roman numerals, 63.5 mm, 120.11 g (Pollard, Numismatic Chronicle (1970), pp. 316-318; B.H.M. 976), matt surface with light scratches from handling, has been touch-tested on reverse rim at 4 o’clock and showing some tarnish through the gilding, extremely fine, in a pair of protective gilt shells £2,000-2,500 Matthew Robinson Boulton dedicated this fine medal, originally planned shortly after his father’s death but which finally appeared on the tenth anniversary of the event, to Matthew Boulton’s friends. For a full account of the medal’s long and costly development, including reference to Küchler, see the appendix to J.G. Pollard, ‘Matthew Boulton and Conrad Heinrich Küchler’ in the Numismatic Chronicle (1970).

This and the following lot were given by Matthew Robinson Boulton to James Watt the Engineer (or, possibly, to his widow) and to James Watt Junior. They are known to have been transferred in 1849 from Aston Hall to Doldowlod, where they were displayed and, at one time, incorrectly described as “gold” in an inventory of the Watt Collection. It may be noted that the shells are – unusually – gilt on both the interiors and exteriors, emphasising their special significance. Both pieces were included in Sotheby’s catalogue The James Watt Sale – Art & Science, London, 20 March 2003, lots 41 and 42. See also Morton & Eden auction, 13 November 2002, lots 267 and 268 for companion pieces in copper.

503 George III, Memorial to Matthew Boulton, 1819, copper-gilt medal by Pidgeon, similar to the last but the edge inscription rather weakly struck, 63.5 mm, 99.97 g (Pollard, op. cit., pp. 316-318; B.H.M. 976), touch-tested on reverse rim at top edge and with one or two trivial marks from handling, good extremely fine, also in a pair of protective gilt shells £1,500-2,000

See footnote to preceding lot. Various Properties EUROPEAN MEDALS AND PLAQUETTES

504 510 Charles I, Royalist badge by T. Rawlins, bust right, rev., France, Marie de Medici, uniface bronze medal, 1624, by G. incuse Royal Arms within Garter, 39 x 30 mm. (M.I. Dupré, bust right wearing elaborate ruff, 101 mm. (Maz. 696; I/360/231), cleaned, very fine, with suspension ring; with late Jones 59), pierced, mount removed, very fine old cast; lead 18th century halfpenny tokens (3), banknotes (31), two pieces of medal of Henry IV and Marie de Medici, 67 mm. old cast; Roman glass, royal menus (3) dated 1899, 1901, 1912 and U.S. Napoleonic lead clichés (3, one framed), red wax of Marie- appointment certificates (2), ‘signed’ by Franklin Roosevelt, Louise, uniface electrotype of Louis XVIII; bronze medal of both dated 1943, mixed grades (42) £200-250 Prince Albert as President of the Royal Commission, 1851, mainly very fine (8) £150-200

511 505 France, Napoleon, bronze medals (16), mainly 41 mm., Victories of the Peninsular War, bronze box medal by I. comprising: (1805) École de Médecin; 1806 Conquest of Porter and E. Orme, 1815, bust of Wellington left, rev., seated Dalmatia, Entry into Berlin, Capitulation of 4 fortresses; 1807 Victory; containing the complete set of thirteen coloured discs Battle of Eylau, Battle of Friedland, Route from Nice to Rome; depicting the principal engagements of the campaign (each 1809 Rome re-united with France, Battle of Wagram, Peace of bearing the name of the campaign below the scene) and with Vienna, Conquest of Illyria; 1810 Orphelines de la Legion- the endpapers, the ribbon present but no longer attached to the d’Honneur; 1812 Taking of Wilna, Entry into Moscow; 1814 discs, the box 75 mm. (BHM 866), good very fine, the printed Victories of February, Abdication (Bramsen 467, 513, 546, discs somewhat foxed from dampness (lot) £200-300 548, 628, 632, 690, 848, 862, 876, 879, 980, 1156, 1164, 1348, 1386), mainly extremely fine (16) £150-200

512 506 France, Galérie Numismatique des Rois de France, 70 Completion of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal, 1827, bronze medals (from a set of 72), by A. Caqué, circa 1830, bronze medal by Halliday, 44.5 mm. (BHM 1316), very comprising portrait medals of the Kings of France from fine; together with miscellaneous medals (4), coins (4), Pharamund to Louis Philippe including medals for the illegible Roman bronzes (20) and a group of uniface lead Republic and Napoleon I but lacking those for Charles VIII cast copies of mainly French medals (34), mainly fine or and Henry IV, all with obverse portraits and reverses with better (63) £70-100 biographical details, each c. 51.5 mm. (BDM I, 342), some light verdigris but otherwise in mint state and housed in a fitted medal cabinet (by Diller of Covent Garden) with drop- front, lock, key and brass carrying handle, 12 ins wide x 9 ins 507 deep x 6 ins high (70) £600-800 William IV, Coronation, 1831, official gold medal by William Wyon, the edge engraved in italic script: Presented 513 by William IV on his Coronation 8 Sept. 1831 to Willm Alexr Italy, Venetian plaquette of the Virgin of the Rosary (after the Mackinnon M P, 33 mm. (BHM 1475), well scuffed, very fine Battle of Lepanto), 138 x 100 mm. (Bange 944; cf. Adams £250-300 140), old cast; and two Spanish lead plaquettes of St. Peter and St. John the Evangelist, c. 100 x 77 mm. (cf. Weber 1043 WILLIAM ALEXANDER MACKINNON (1789-1870), Legislator; M.P. for Dunwich (1830-31), Lymington (1831-52) and Rye (1853, and Molinari 411 for the first), very fine (3) £200-300 1857 and 1859-65). 514 Italy, Laura Bassi, Professor of Philosophy at Bologna Univer- sity at the age of twenty, 1732, bronze medal by Antonio Lazari, 508 bust left, rev., Minerva and Philosophy, 70 mm. (Molinari 170), Lord Palmerston, Prime Minister (1855-64), a very large traces of old lacquer, about extremely fine £250-300 bronze uniface electrotype portrait plaque by Chénard, 1864, 515 head right within an elaborate border of inscribed cartouches Netherlands, Desiderius Erasmus, uniface bronze medal and his coat of arms flanked by the regalia of the Order of the by Quentin Matsys, bust left wearing cap, flanked by ER – Garter and the Order of the Bath, the portrait dated 1864 on ROT; 1519 below, 102 mm. (cf. Currency of Fame 157), truncation and signed below Chénard, the rim inscribed pierced, reverse with incuse impression of obverse, very REGISTERED OCT 22ND 1864 …. DEPOSE, 360 mm., cleaned, fine, possibly a 17th century cast £200-300 extremely fine, rare £250-300 516 Netherlands, bronze plaque of the Judgment of Solomon, after Hans Jamnitzer’s workshop, 163 mm. (cf. Weber 282), in 509 integral frame, with loop for suspension, very fine £200-300 Edward VII, Coronation, 1902, large official silver medal, as struck, in case of issue; together with miscellaneous medals in 517 silver (5), bronze/brass (70), including Admiral Vernon medals Netherlands, bronze plaques (2), one depicting the contest (2) and bronze medal for the Battle of Minden, 1759 (MI II, between Apollo and Pan, oval, 180 x 130 mm, the other of 702, 433) and white metal/lead (25), mainly 18th and 19th Hermes lulling Argos with music, circular, 138 mm., old casts, centuries, many very fine (101) £200-300 the first pierced, the second with casting flaw (2) £200-250 WORLD COINS

AUSTRALASIAN COINS AND MEDALS

‡518 ‡521 Australia, New South Wales, ‘holey dollar’ for five Australia, Queen Victoria, Sydney Mint, pattern half- shillings, 1813, struck from a Mexico City 8 reales of sovereign, 1856, by L.C. Wyon, also struck to brilliant proof Charles III, 1778 F.F., 20.78 g, (Spalding dies II/12-B/7), old standard with a frosted portrait, type similar to the last, also edge marks, very fine and toned, the date excessively rare with edge plain, 3.98 g, one or two minor hairlines but £15,000-20,000 almost as struck, extremely rare £25,000-30,000

Ex Spink Australia auction, 5 March 1981, lot 365 (“an unpublished Ex Spink Australia auction, 19-20 November, 1981 (lot 985). date…”). The piece is also the Krause & Mishler plate coin (KM 2.6). See also back cover illustration. 522 Australia, Queen Victoria, Imperial ‘shield back’ sovereigns (4), 1879 S, 1882 S, 1884 M, 1885 S, very fine to extremely fine, 1882 and 1884 retaining some lustre; with St. George type sovereign, 1884 M, light bagmarks, good extremely fine and Jubilee head, sovereign, 1889 M, rather scuffed, extremely fine (6) £400-600 ‡519 Australia, Government Assay Office, Adelaide, one pound, 1852, second die type, with crenellated inner circles on both sides, 8.75 g, reverse slightly bagmarked but good extremely fine, with light orange toning £7,000-10,000

‡523 Australia, George V, florin, 1919 M, Melbourne mint, bagmarks on the King’s beard and cheek but virtually as struck, lightly toned around lettering £1,500-2,500

524 ‡520 Australia, crowns (3), 1937 (2), 1938, extremely fine; florins Australia, Queen Victoria, Sydney Mint, pattern (114), all dates 1910-1963 except 1932, including 1914 H, sovereign, 1856, by L.C. Wyon, struck to brilliant proof 1915, 1915 H, all about fine, 1916 M, good very fine, 1933, this standard with a frosted portrait; obv., second type head of fine, others from circulation, fair to extremely fine; shillings the Queen left, with braided hair and wearing a wreath of (108), all dates 1910-1963, including 1912, good fine, 1915, banksia [as used for currency coins from 1857-70], rev., about fine, 1924, fine, 1933, good fine; sixpences (100), all AUSTRALIA crowned within laurel wreath, edge plain, 7.83 dates 1910-1963; threepences (117), all regular dates 1910- g, with a rim bruise at D: of F:D: and two tiny edge 1964; pennies (5), 1925 (2), 1933 (2), 1946; halfpennies (2), scratches at D: of D:G: on obverse, otherwise almost as 1930, 1931, from circulation, fair to extremely fine; 50 cents struck, extremely rare £40,000-60,000 (3), 1966 (2), 1981; uncirculated sets (3), 1980, 1982, 1990; proof dollar, 1984; proof 10 dollars, 1982, mint state sets and Ex Spink Australia auctions 1978 (lot 541) and 19-20 November, proof issues in cases of issue; New Zealand, crowns (2), both 1981 (lot 984). 1953, extremely fine; halfcrowns (2), 1944, 1946; florin, 1935; threepences (37), 1933-65, including 1935, this fine, others fine or better; proof sets (3), 1979, 1980, 1981, mint state, in wallets of issue (lot) £600-800 525 Australia: a cedarwood-lined copper box dated 1856, made to hold coins placed under the foundation stone of Woollahra House, Point Piper, Sydney; the box of copper with a brass-hinged lid, plain thumbpiece, gilt interior with fitted red cedar linings in two compartments; the top with engraved legend and border 4½” wide x 7½” deep x 2½” high, weight approx. 770 g., apparently missing a minor cover-strip over the internal hinge joint, cleaned and some wear but in very fine condition overall (illustration reduced) £2,500-3,000 In an impressive ceremony involving an 18-gun salute, prayers led by the Bishop of Sydney and a substantial dinner at Rose Bay Lodge, the foundations of Woollahra House were laid on 13 December 1856. Eight-year old Daniel Cooper (elder son of the Speaker, Sir Daniel), ‘placed in the cavity of the foundation stone a metal box containing a variety of coins and also the case and coins taken from the foundation of the old house’ before handing a silver trowel to Sir William Denison. On spreading the mortar the Governor is reported to have said, “I lay this the first stone…with my best wishes that the house may prove as solid as the foundation upon which it rests.” Unfortunately, this was not to be the case. Woollahra House was demolished in 1929, and the original contents of this box have been long since dispersed. Further information is included with the lot in a typescript copy of The Story of Point Piper by Woollahra Municipal Council, 1970, and in Pioneer Families of Australia – The Coopers, taken from The Home, October 1932.

‡526 Sydney Academy, a silver prize medal for Merit awarded to James Cunningham, Christmas 1822; the plain silver disc engraved th s on both sides EXAMINATIONS / at the / SYDNEY ACADEMY / Macquarie Street / December 25 / 1822 / / MERIT / to / Master Ja . Cunningham / In the various branches of / Literature in which he / has been instructed / J. Wood Prer., 59.5 mm, good very fine, rather unevenly tarnished £800-1,200

527 Captain Cook Memorial, silver medal by Lewis Pingo, issued by the Royal Society (1783/4), bust of Cook left, rev., standing figure of Fortune, 43 mm. (BHM 258; Eimer (Pingo) 64), slightly edge knock, otherwise almost as struck, toned £700-1,000 Eimer recorded probable mintage figures of 19 in gold, 291 in silver and 574 in bronze, rather more than the totals recorded in BHM.

528 Captain Cook Memorial, bronze medal by Lewis Pingo, issued by the Royal Society (1783/4), type as previous lot, 43 mm. (BHM 258; Eimer (Pingo) 64), minor edge knock, about extremely fine £300-500 ‡529 New Zealand, George V, New Coinage, proof set of five silver coins, 1934, comprising halfcrown, florin, shilling, sixpence and threepence, virtually as struck, with matching grey tone, very minor carbon spots on obverse of the halfcrown and reverse of the florin, extremely rare, uncased (5) £4,000-6,000

Ex Ray Jewell Collection and Spink Australia auction, 19-20 November 1981, lot 1397 (when offered with a Royal Mint case).

‡530 New Zealand, George V, Jubilee, 1935, proof set of six silver coins, 1935, comprising Waitangi commemorative crown, halfcrown, florin, shilling, sixpence and threepence, a few traces of handling, good extremely fine, with fairly deep grey toning (6) £2,500-3,500

‡531 New Zealand, George V, Waitangi crown, 1935, minor surface marks, otherwise almost as struck and prooflike £1,000-1,500

‡532 New Zealand, George V, Waitangi crown, 1935, another similar, good extremely fine £1,000-1,500

‡533 New Zealand, George VI, Coronation, 1937, proof set of five silver coins, 1937, comprising halfcrown, florin, shilling, sixpence and threepence, virtually as struck, very light, even toning, extremely rare (5) £2,000-3,000

Ex Robert Archer Collection (Spink [London] auction, 19 November 1980, lot 285) and Spink Australia auction, 19-20 November 1981, lot 1401. ‡534 New Zealand, George VI, proof set of 5 cupro-nickel coins, 1947, comprising halfcrown, florin, shilling, sixpence and threepence, practically as struck, the florin with a light copper toning streak on reverse and obverse of the threepence slightly dull, otherwise all very lightly toned, extremely rare (5) £2,000-3,000

Ex Robert Archer Collection (Spink [London] auction, 19 November 1980, lot 286) and Spink Australia auction, 19-20 November 1981, lot 1402.

‡535 New Zealand, Elizabeth II, proof set of six coins, 1964, comprising cupro-nickel florin, shilling, sixpence and threepence, bronze penny and halfpenny, practically as struck, the cupro-nickel showing partial light, misty toning in places and the bronze red, excessively rare (6) £2,000-3,000

WORLD GOLD COINS

536 ‡539 Austria, Vienna, “Salvator Mundi” gold medal of 10 Chile, Ferdinand VI, 8 escudos, 1751, Santiago, assayer J ducats weight, by Georg Hautsch, c. 1700, bust of Christ (dies M/2), extremely fine £1,200-1,500 left; G H below, rev., MVN RP VIENN, shields of Austria and Vienna, 34.37 g., some edge marks, good very fine and rare Ex Uruguayan Treasure of the River Plate, Sotheby’s New York, £600-800 24 March 1993.

537 Austria, restrike 100 corona, 1915, extremely fine; France, 100 francs, 1866 BB, has been ring-mounted, very fine, 10 francs, 1866 BB, mounted, 5 francs, 1859 A, pierced; Great Britain, sovereign, 1889, has been mounted; India, Moghuls, Akbar, mohur, has been brooch-mounted; Netherlands, 540 Holland, ducats (2), 1757, both pierced; Turkey, 100 piastres, China, uniface bullion coin, stamped 1000 and 99 and with AH 1327, year 5, also mounted (9) £550-600 two indistinct Chinese stamps and central hole, 37.45 g., extremely fine £280-320 538 Belgium, 20 francs, 1877, France, 20 francs (3), 1863 A, 1899, 541 1913, 10 francs, 1863 A, Japan, Meiji, nibu kin, Netherlands, Colombia, Charles IV, 8 escudos, 1801, Popayan; Spain, 5 gulden, 1912, Spain, 25 pesetas, 1877 (from a ring mount), Charles III, 2 escudos, 1788, Seville, both cleaned and have South Africa, pond, 1898, Switzerland, 20 francs (2), 1916, been mounted, about very fine (2) £280-320 1935, mainly very fine or better; together with medallic issues (3), comprising Ghana, two-pounds, 1960, German medallic 2 542 ducats, 1957, commemorating Maria Theresa and ducat, 1963, Iran, 5 tomans, SH 1348, half-toman, SH 1333, Saudi commemorating Kennedy, good extremely fine (14) £500-600 Arabia, guinea, AH 1370, all extremely fine (3) £250-280 543 557 Mexico, 50 pesos, 1944, 20 and 10 pesos, 1959, 5 pesos, 1955, U.S.A., 5 dollars (6), 1879 S, 1881, 1882, 1886 S, 1897, 1903 S, 2½ pesos and 2 pesos, both 1945, extremely fine (6) £400-450 very fine to extremely fine (6) £400-450

544 Peru, Philip V, cob 8 escudos, 1719, Lima, assayer M, 26.29 g (Cayon 9286), has been mounted and gilt, about fine £350-400

545 Turkey, Abdul Aziz, 500 piastres, AH 1277, year 9, 558 scuffed, otherwise extremely fine £250-300 U.S.A., 3 dollars, 1883, a few light marks but mint state, with much original mint lustre and light orange toning £1,000-1,500 546 U.S.A, gold dollars (7), all Liberty head type, 1850, 1851 559 (3), 1852 (2), 1854, one with rim bruise and another U.S.A., 20 dollars, 1894 S, 10 dollars (2), 1905, 1908, 2½ scratched, fine to good very fine (7) £300-400 dollars, 1925, dollar, 1874, 1905 $10 and 1874 $1 have both been mounted, other coins good very fine or better (5) £550-600

560 U.S.A, 20 dollars, 1896; Great Britain, sovereign, 1871 S, about very fine (2) £270-300 547 U.S.A, 2½ dollars, 1850 O, very fine £150-200 561 U.S.A., 20 dollars (2), 1900, 1904 S, very fine or better (2) 548 £480-520 U.S.A, gold dollars (2), 1853, extremely fine, 1853 O, very fine or better, toned (2) £140-180

549 U.S.A, 2½ dollars (4), 1853 (2), 1856, 1861 new reverse, 1856 damaged from mounting, others fine to very fine (4) £150-200

‡550 U.S.A, gold dollar, 1854 Indian head type, weak in reverse ‡562 centre and N of UNITED not struck up, about extremely fine U.S.A, 10 dollars, 1901 S, incipient die cracks, brilliant mint £150-200 state with minimal bagmarks £400-600

551 ‡563 U.S.A, gold dollar, 1854 Indian head type, good very fine U.S.A, 2½ dollars (2), 1903, mint state, tone spots on reverse £120-150 and 1905, rather grainy surface, good extremely fine (2) £300-400 552 U.S.A, gold dollars (7), 1854 Indian head type, 1856 upright 564 5 (2), 1856 slanting 5 (2), 1857 (2), two or three slightly bent U.S.A, 2½ dollars, 1904, a light mark above head, choice or damaged, otherwise generally very fine (7) £250-350 mint state £300-400

553 ‡565 U.S.A., 5 dollars (5), 1856, 1881 (2), 1882, 1893, very fine U.S.A, 2½ dollars, 1905, tiny rim graze and a couple of lint to good very fine (5) £350-450 marks but virtually free of surface scuffs, choice mint state £300-400

554 U.S.A, gold dollar, 1857 C, rims with typical unevenness, very fine and clear, scarce £250-350

555 U.S.A, gold dollar, 1862, very fine; with a Californian gold ‡566 round half-dollar, 1872, Indian head, buckled and Canada, U.S.A, 20 dollars, 1927, mint state, very slight bagmarks George V, 5 dollars, 1912, good extremely fine (3) £150-200 £300-400

556 ‡567 U.S.A., 5 dollars, 1874 S, knock in obverse field, good fine U.S.A, 20 dollars, 1927, mint state, minor marks but well struck and scarce £150-200 £300-400 A COLLECTION OF THE COINS OF GENEVA

568 576 Bishopric, Conrad (1019-30), denier, +GEHEVA CIVITAS, 3 pistoles, 1771, arms of Geneva in cartouche, rev., five columned temple, rev., COHRADUS EPS, cross with sunburst, 16.98 g. (Dem. 605; D.T. 1003; F. 261), extremely pellets in angles, 1.14 g. (Coraggioni XLVIII, 15), virtually fine, rare thus £1,500-2,000 as struck £100-150 577 This and the following five lots were all from a find in 1970, 10 15 sols, 1794 (Dem. 630; D.T. 1035 a), virtually mint state; 6 miles to the south of Geneva. Until this find only six examples of deniers issued by this bishop were known. sols (2), 1765, 1791 (Dem. 373, 378; D.T. 1012a, 1012 d); sols (4), 1817, 1825, 1833 (2) (Dem. 658, 662, 664 (2); D.T. 272, 569 274 a, 274 b); and six deniers (2), 1819, 1833 (Dem. 652, 656; Bishopric, Conrad, denier, similar to the last, 1.25 g. D.T. 276a, 276b), good very fine or better (9) £100-150 (Coraggioni XLVIII, 15), virtually as struck £100-150

570 Bishopric, Conrad, denier, similar to the last, 1.21 g. (Coraggioni XLVIII, 15), reverse slightly off-centre, virtually as struck £100-150

571 Bishopric, Conrad, denier, similar to the last, 1.12 g. (Coraggioni XLVIII, 15), virtually as struck £100-150

572 578 Bishopric, Conrad, denier, similar to the last, 1.21 g. 12 florins and 9 sols, 1795, arms of Geneva, rev., sunburst (Coraggioni XLVIII, 15), virtually as struck £100-150 (Dem. 635; D.T. 1033), extremely fine and toned £150-200 573 Bishopric, Conrad, denier, similar to the last, 1.25 g. 579 (Coraggioni XLVIII, 15), virtually as struck £100-150 12 florins and 9 sols, 1795, another (Dem. 635; D.T. 1033), extremely fine and toned; with 6 florins, 4 sols and 6 deniers, 1795, similar type (Dem. 633; D.T. 1034), very fine (2) £200-300

580 25 centimes (4), 1839 (2), 1844, 1847 (Dem. 699, 701b, 702; D.T. 281a, 281b, 282), 10 centimes (2), both 1839 (Dem 693; D.T. 283a), 5 centimes (2), both 1840 (Dem 688; D.T. 285), 4 centimes (2), both 1839 (Dem. 685; D.T. 287), 2 centimes, 1839 (Dem 682; D.T. 288), centimes (3), 1840, 1846, 1847 (Dem. 671, 673, 675; D.T. 289b, 289d, 574 290), very fine to virtually mint state (14) £80-100 Thaler, 1722, arms of Geneva in cartouche, rev., crowned imperial eagle (Dem. 505; D.T. 1007), extremely fine and toned, scarce thus £300-400

581 575 20 francs, 1848, arms of Geneva, rev., value (Dem. 710; 2 quarts, 1750, struck in gold, arms of Geneva, rev., sun, D.T. 277; F. 263), better than very fine and scarce [3,421 1.41 g. (Dem. 112), good fine, very rare £150-200 pieces struck] £300-400 582 583 Gold 10 francs, 1848, similar to the last (Dem. 709; D.T. 5 francs, 1848, arms of Geneva, rev., value within oak and 278; F. 264), light scuff marks, almost extremely fine and laurel wreath (Dem. 707; D.T. 280), good extremely fine very rare [336 pieces struck] £600-800 and toned, scarce [1,176 pieces struck] £150-200

584 Silver 10 francs, 1851, similar to the last (D.T. 279b), slightly discoloured, otherwise better than extremely fine and rare [1,000 pieces struck] £250-300

Various Properties

WORLD SILVER AND BRONZE COINS

585 Austria, Ferdinand II (1619-1637), thaler, 1620, Vienna, bust right with bowknot at back, rev., crowned arms (Dav. 3074), very fine £60-80

586 Belgium, 5 francs, 1847, very fine; together with other European crown-sized issues (14) and miscellaneous mainly 589 European silver coins (about 170), including a quantity of Denmark, Frederik IV (1699-1730), Coronation, silver Great War period French silver issues, these virtually mint striking of a 3-ducats, bare-headed bust of Frederik IV state, others mainly fine (lot) £180-220 right, rev., bare-headed bust of Christian V right, 7.40 g. (Hede 1b; KM Pn29), very fine and toned, rare £200-250 587 Bermuda, George III, halfpenny, 1793; Barbados, halfpenny, 1792, good very fine; Bolivia, Philip III, cob 8 reales, (1)62(?), assayer T, good fine; U.S.A., Connecticut cent, 1787, draped bust left, New Jersey cents (2), both 1787, one with sprig of three leaves beneath horse’s head, generally fair; together with miscellaneous world coins (many hundreds), mostly base metal and many 19th century or earlier, many fine (lot) £400-500

588 British Colonial: Range of minor silver, copper and bronze coins and tokens, etc. (58), including representative issues ‡590 of Australasia, Canada, Bahamas, Bermuda, Gibraltar, Ecuador, 8 reales, 1846, assayers G.J., bust of Liberty left, Ionian Islands and Sierra Leone, with Hong Kong bread rev. condor above arms draped by flags, 27.02 g (S. & A. tokens (2), comprising Evans & Co. “4 loaves” and Hall & 70), surface marks due to cleaning and removal of Holtz Ltd. “one small loaf” (varieties of Pridmore 324, 326), corrosion mark from Liberty’s cheek, two minor edge faults, many fine (58) £200-300 otherwise very fine and extremely rare £2,000-3,000 ‡598 Mexico, Philip V, 8 reales (2), 1738, 1739 (Cayon 8780, 8784), slightly waterworn, otherwise very fine (2) £200-250

Both ex Reijgersdaal Treasure Ship, sold with certificate.

599 Netherlands, Wilhelmina, cupro-nickel 5 cents, 1909 (2), both good extremely fine (2) £70-100

‡591 Ecuador, 5 francos, 1858, assayers G.J., type broadly similar to the last but Liberty with flowing hair (S. & A. 73), better than very fine and scarce £350-400

592 France, Louis XIV, écu, 1649 K (Bordeaux), flan faults, good very fine; together with miscellaneous silver and base metal coins (178), including many French and French Colonial issues, and medals (11), many fine, some better (190) £300-400 ‡600 Poland, Congress Kingdom, Alexander I, 10 zlotych, 1824 593 IB (Uzd. 4527; H.Cz. 3576; GM 67), edge bruise and edge France, Louis XIV, twelfth-écu, 1660 &, together with fault to right of bust, otherwise very fine and very rare [513 luigini (3) of Dombes, 1655, Orange, 1665 and Massa di pieces struck] £1,000-1,200 Lunigiano, 1665, generally very fine (4) £100-200 601 594 Spain, 8 maravedis, 1855 Barcelona, minor edge fault, good Germany, Prussia, 5 marks, 1901, 3 marks, 1910, 1911, very fine; Mexico, Morelos, copper 8 reales (2), both 1813, 1913 (cleaned), 2 marks, 1901, 1913; Weimar Republic, 5 fine to very fine; together with miscellaneous world coins (a reichsmarks, 1930A, 3 reichsmarks, 1930D, mainly extremely few hundred), mostly in base metal, many fine (lot) fine (8) £180-220 £150-200

595 Germany, Württemberg, 5 marks, 1904, good extremely fine and toned; Canada, cents (2), 1903, 1912, both better than extremely fine, with much original mint lustre; U.S.A., ‡602 Pan-American Exposition, 1901, official brass medal, Straits Settlements, Victoria, 5 cents, 1877, uncirculated, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, official bronze medal, deeply toned and very rare £1,500-2,000 and Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 1909, W.H. Seward / Chief Seattle ‘dollar’, in silvered bronze (H. & K. 289, 303, 603 363), first with verdigris on reverse, otherwise very fine or U.S.A., cent, 1794, head of 1794, considerable edge bruising, better; together with miscellaneous world coins (about 230), fair, with all major details clear; other cents (8), (179)8, 1800, mainly base metal, many fine (lot) £150-200 1801, 1805, poor to fair, 1829, 1837, 1844, 1849, generally fine, dime, 1907, about extremely fine (10) £150-200

604 U.S.A., cents (2), both 1796, reverse of 1797, one with corrosion spot to right of Y, obverse almost fine, reverse poorly struck; the other with nick to right of bust, obverse fair but clear, rev. slightly better (2) £180-220

605 U.S.A., cent, 1807/6, pointed 1, severe planchet lamination and a surface knock, portrait good fine; with other U.S. coins, Ex 596 ‘Hard Times’ tokens etc. (14), including a very worn 596 Connecticut copper and a Hawaiian quarter-dollar, 1883, this German New Guinea, 5 marks, mark and half-mark, 1894A, very fine, others mixed grades (15) £150-200 sometime cleaned, some marks, about extremely fine, the half- ‡606 mark better but with a small edge nick, rare (3) £800-1,200 U.S.A, proof 5 cents (2), 1867 no rays, 1871, both with tiny marks but almost mint state, the first toned (2) £250-350 597 Italy, Modena, Cesare d’Este (1597-1628), giulio (CNI IX, 607 139), good very fine; Urbino, Francesco Maria II della U.S.A, dollar, 1869, about fine, Trade dollars (2), both 1878 S Rovere (1574-1621, 1623-4), giulio (?) (cf. CNI XIII, pl. 30, and Morgan dollar, 1893 CC, this only about fine but scarce, 14), fine (2) £70-100 Trade dollars better but rather stained (4) £150-200 ‡608 ‡618 U.S.A, proof half-dollar, 1869, very slight traces of handling U.S.A, half-dollar, 1912 D, a choice mint state business but virtually as struck, with light, even and attractive strike, free of significant marks £300-400 peripheral toning £800-1,200

‡609 U.S.A, proof silver 3 cents, 1872, considerable die- polishing marks, mint state £300-400 ‡619 U.S.A, quarter-dollar, type 1, 1917 D, choice mint state, with ‡610 minimal bagmarks and a well-struck head of Liberty £150-200 U.S.A, Morgan dollars (4), 1881 S (2), 1885, 1885 O, all lightly bagmarked brilliant uncirculated examples, generally with prooflike surfaces (4) £200-300 620 U.S.A, Lexington-Concord Sesquicentennial, 1925, ‡611 commemorative half-dollars (2), about uncirculated, patchy U.S.A, proof 5 cents, 1881, mint state £200-250 toning; with other commemorative half-dollars (2), 1892 Columbian Exposition, 1920 Pilgrim Tercentenary, good ‡612 very fine (4) £80-120 U.S.A, proof 5 cents, 1881, from a later state of the same dies as the last, showing an incipient die flaw at the motto, ‡621 mint state £150-200 U.S.A, Peace dollar, 1935 S, minimal bagmarks, choice mint state £150-200

622 U.S.A, Battle of Gettysburg 1863-1938, commemorative ‡613 half-dollar, 1936, mint state but with a few scuffs on reverse U.S.A, proof dime, 1883, one or two lintmarks and and with uneven black toning £80-120 hairlines but almost as struck, with peripheral blue toning £200-250 ‡623 U.S.A, proof set of five coins, 1938, comprising half-dollar, ‡614 quarter-dollar, dime, nickel and cent, mint state, nickel and U.S.A, proof 5 cents, 1883, slight surface spotting, mint cent beginning to tone but others brilliant, housed in a state £150-200 modern plastic display holder £300-500

‡615 U.S.A, proof nickel 3 cents, 1883, mint state, beginning to ‡624 tone on the portrait but brilliant in fields £150-200 U.S.A, proof set of five coins, 1939, comprising half-dollar, quarter-dollar, dime, nickel and cent, brilliant mint state, ‡616 also housed in a modern plastic display holder £300-500 U.S.A, 5 cents, 1887, mint state but a rather weak striking; with Indian head cents (2), 1881, has been dipped, good ‡625 extremely fine and 1894, mint state, with red/brown lustre (3) U.S.A, proof dime, 1941, slight radial stress marks from £150-200 striking, mint state £100-150

626 Miscellaneous European and world coins, tokens and medalets (about 250), the majority comprising Great War period base metal emergency currency with many German kriegsgeld and local notgeld base metal tokens; some earlier ‡617 pieces of German and French interest, including U.S.A, proof quarter-dollar, 1906, practically as struck, Monneron’s 5 sols, 1792 and also Revolutionary assignats with slightly uneven light toning £300-400 (3), generally fine and better (about 250) £150-200 BANKNOTES

627 British Provincial: Milverton & Taunton Bank (Thos. Young & Son), £1 (4), 1813-14, one only fair, others very good to good fine (4) £150-200

Offered with a related handwritten receipt dated 23 July 1814.

Ex 633 633 Canada, The Dominion Bank, $5 and $10, Toronto, 3 Jan. 1938 (Pick S1035, S1036), uncirculated (2) £180-220

‡634 Netherlands, De Nederlandsche Bank, 1945 issue, 10 gulden (with incorrect dates of Willem I 1788-1843), 20 gulden and 50 gulden (Pick 75a, 76, 78), 10 and 20 gulden uncirculated, 50 gulden with a central fold, extremely fine (3) £150-200

628 ‡635 Printing Plate: An engraved copper plate for printing 1 South Africa, Z.A.R., a series of 6 Government notes, guinea banknotes of the Stourbridge Old Bank (Thos. Hill, Pretoria, dated 28 May 1900, comprising 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and m s r Will . Waldron & Tho . Hill Jun .), circa 1810, reverse 100 pond, the last two both with ‘ʋ’ before serial number stamped PONTIFEX 46 SHOE LANE LONDON, cancelled, (Pick 42b, 43c, 44b, 45b, cf. 46, cf. 47), with bankers’ marks, generally in fine condition £250-300 generally fine, £100 with the low serial no. ‘5’ (6) £200-300

629 ‡636 Treasury, John Bradbury, Second Issue, £1 (2) (D. T11 type Algeria, Banque de L’Algérie, 500 francs, 1 March 1924 (cf. 2), one very good, the other poor; Bank of England, Peppiatt Pick 75b, date not listed), good fine to very fine £80-120 £1 (2) and 10/- (2), and O’Brien Series A 10/- (5), mostly fine or very fine; together with other world banknotes etc. (14), mixed grades and British gold coins (2), comprising guinea, ‡637 1788, fine and sovereign, 1905 S, very fine (27) £150-200 Algeria, Banque de L’Algérie, 500 francs, 27 January 1942 (type as Pick 82, date not listed), good fine; with 100 francs (2), 5 April 1929 (Pick 81b), 4 June 1940 (Pick 85), very fine to good very fine (3) £100-150 630 Bank of England, K.O. Peppiatt, £20, London, 20 Aug. 1934, prefix 48M (D. B243), a few pinholes, good fine to ‡638 very fine £300-400 Sweden, Riksens Ständers Wexel-Banco, 12 Schillingar Specie, 1829 (Pick A94b), 16 Schillingar Banco, 1841 (Pick A102b); with Riksens Ständers Riksgalds Contoir, 16 Schillingar, 1822 (Pick A115c), 1Riksdaler, 1803 (Pick 631 A117b), one or two bankers’ marks, very good to good fine (4) Bank of England, J.S. Fforde, Series D £20 (5), serial £120- 150 prefixes A01 (2), A02, A04, A05, generally good to fine and J.B. Page, £20 (5), comprising serial prefix A77 (4), good extremely fine and a replacement note with prefix M03, ‡639 good very fine but marked in ballpoint ink (10) £250-350 U.S.A., Silver certificates for $5 (2), both 1899 series, with signatures of Speelman and White (KL 251; Fr. 281; Pick 340), well worn, with some paper loss; together with 632 Confederate States, $1, 2 June 1862, with portrait of Lucy Canada, The Dominion Bank, $5 (2), Toronto, 3 Jan. 1938 Pickens (Pick 39) and $2, 17 Feb. 1864, with portrait of J.P. (Pick S1035), uncirculated (2) £150-200 Benjamin (Pick 66b), very fine and better (4) £250-300 640 U.S.A, Federal Reserve National Currency, series of 1918, $1 (4), Cleveland Bank, Teehee/Burke, Baxter/Fancher (KL 71; Fr. 718; Pick 371), uncirculated, three consecutively numbered (4) £400-600

647 U.S.A., National Currency, series of 1902, The First National Bank of the City of New York (Charter 29), $10, dated 25 Feb. 1903, with undated back, good extremely fine £150-200

648 Yemen, Democratic Republic, South Arabian Currency 641 Authority, 1965 issue, 5 dinars (15), red and multicoloured, and U.S.A, Federal Reserve National Currency, series of 1918, $1 Bank of Yemen, 1984 issue (with ‘ADEN’ reverse), 500 fils (4), Cleveland Bank, others similar (KL 71; Fr. 718; Pick (10), 1 dinar (10), 5 dinars (10) and 10 dinars (10), one or two 371), uncirculated, all consecutively numbered (one marks but all uncirculated, generally consecutively numbered; illustrated) (4) £400-600 together with Yemen Arab Republic, First issue, 1 rial (15), mostly extremely fine or better and Ethiopia, 1966 issue, 50 dollars (2), about extremely fine (72) £800-1,000 642 U.S.A, Federal Reserve National Currency, series of 1918, $1 (4), Cleveland Bank, others similar (KL 71; Fr. 718; Pick BONDS AND SHARES 371), uncirculated, all consecutively numbered (4) £400-600

643 U.S.A, Federal Reserve National Currency, series of 1918, $1 (4), Cleveland Bank, others similar (KL 71; Fr. 718; Pick 371), uncirculated, all consecutively numbered (4) £400-600

‡644 U.S.A., Gold certificate for $50, series of 1922, Speelman/ White (KL 705; Fr. 705; Pick 276), some marginal thinning, 649 very good £250-300 The Manchester Ship Canal Company, redeemable debenture certificate for £100, 15 August 1927, no. 4877, large format, printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. in blue 645 on rose, with a vignette of shipping, two transfers and a light U.S.A., Silver certificates for $1 (3), 1923 series, cancellation stamp, good very fine; stated to be from a small Speelman/White (KL 52; Fr. 237; Pick 342), uncirculated, group of surviving pieces (detail illustrated) £150-200 all consecutively numbered (3) £150-200 650 The Manchester Ship Canal Company, a similar certificate, 15 August 1927, no. 5000, single transfer and a light cancellation stamp, good very fine £150-200

651 The Manchester Ship Canal Company, another similar certificate, 15 August 1927, no. 5068, single transfer and a light cancellation stamp, good very fine £150-200

652 Miscellaneous: A substantial group of Austro-Hungarian, 646 Serbian and other Eastern European bonds etc. (several U.S.A., National Currency, series of 1902, The Indiana hundreds), c. 1868-1910, including State, City, Gold and National Bank of Indianapolis (Charter 984), $5, dated 15 Railway Loans; and a further group of later Yugoslavian March 1905, with undated back, uncirculated £200-300 certificates, many fine and better (lot) £80-120

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