Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2003

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Ancient, British and World Coins, Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books and Banknotes

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1716

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25 June 2003

Hammer Price:
£600

Sotheby & Co, The Valuable Collection of Coins and Medals, the property of the late John G. Murdoch: Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and English Coins, Part I, 31 March-4 April 1903, 772 lots, 10 plates + frontispiece portrait; Scottish and Anglo-Gallic Coins, 11-13 May 1903, 406 lots, 11 plates; Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and English Coins, Part II, 8-13 June 1903, 919 lots, 14 plates; Coins and Tokens of the British Colonies and Dependencies, America and the European Continent, 21-30 July 1903, 1,233 lots, 10 plates; Ancient British, Anglo-Saxon and English Coins, Part III, 15-19 March 1904, 718 lots, 7 plates; English Historical Medals from Henry VI to George II, 2-6 June 1904, 670 lots, no plates; Irish Coins, British and Irish Tokens, 12-13 December 1904, 254 lots, 3 plates; English Historical Medals from George III to Victoria and Scottish Coins, 14-16 December 1904, lots 671-1084, 12 plates; bound with the complete set of printed prices realised. The complete series of Murdoch sales; bound in contemporary green half-leather, ribbed spine with gilt lettering, t.e.g., some rubbing to one corner of binding, plates and one page of text from 12 December sale disbound, otherwise a very fine set of this important reference (£350-400)

Provenance:
Ex libris Robert Seaman