Auction Catalogue

21 June 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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British and World Coins

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 467 x

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21 June 2011

Hammer Price:
£31,000

South Africa, Schalk Burger, Veld Pond, 1902 (Hern Z54; KM. 11; F 4). Practically mint state £20,000-25,000

Slabbed in NGC holder, graded MS 64.

986 struck by hand at the Transvaal Gold Mining Estates dormant workshop at Pilgrim’s Rest, using improvised equipment, including a wing-nut press. The issue was produced on the recommendation of General Christian Muller, the assistant-commandant-general, and authorised by Schalk Burger, acting president of the Republic after Paul Kruger left the country on 19 October 1900. The dies were executed by the acting mint master, P.J. Kloppers, former head teacher at the De Kaap Government School

Sold under the investment gold scheme