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SAUDI ARABIA, Death of Faisal b. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz, 1975, a set of four silver medals, bust facing three-quarters left, rev. palm tree and crossed swords within wreath, 38mm, 31mm, 24mm, 20mm [4]. As struck, attractively toned; in case of issue £100-£150
Hammer Price: £130
Victoria to George V, a date set of Farthings (106), 1860-1936 [106]. Varied state; in three Whitman folders £100-£150
IRAN, Centenary, SH 2536 [1978], a bronze and enamel medal by G.-C. Revol, capped bust of Shah left, rev. rayed sun over mountains, 63mm. Very fine £90-£120
Catholic School Committee, a silver award medal by T. Leighton, edge named (Richard Dilworth, St Josephs School, Preston), 47mm; similar medals in copper (2), together with other medals in silver (4), base metal (19), 19th and 20th centuries, coin weights (2), both 18th century [28]. Varied state £70-£90
Peace Treaty for the Boer War, 1902, a silver medal by E. Fuchs for Elkington, angel tending fallen soldier, rev. female figure, troops in background, 52mm (BHM 3876); together with other World medals (3, one in silver), 19th and 20th centuries [4]. Fine to very fine or better £40-£60
James I (1603-1625), Third coinage, Shilling, mm. thistle, sixth bust, plume above shield, reads iacobvs’, 5.88g/9h (N 2125; S 2669). Striking split and scratched on portrait, otherwise very fine and toned, rare £150-£200
Henry IV or Henry V, Light coinage, Secondary series, Groat, class B2a, mm. pierced cross pattée with central pellet, ‘scowling’ bust, no fleurs above crown, no mullet on breast, quatrefoils after henric and posvi, double saltires after tas and don, 3.59g/5h (Stewartby p.324 [Henry IV]; N 1386; S 1762). Fine, rare £150-£180
British Iron-Age, Atrebates and Regni, Verica, Unit, com f, crescent and pellet above and below, rev. boar right, star above, 1.13g (ABC 1223; BMC 1279-1331; VA 470-3; S 131). On an oval flan, very fine £100-£120
Craft, silver Masonic badges (2), in the forms of a Maltese Cross, in centre, one with details from a tracing board in the centre, below ‘39 Lodge’, hallmarked London 1857, reverse plain, the other with a floral design in centre, engraved on reverse (Presented by the White Rose Lodge to J.P.C.M. Sis. C. Woodbridge, for her past services, August 31st 1891), hallmarked London 1891, both 64mm [2]. Very fine and interesting £100-£150
George IV (1820-1830), Penny, 1827 (BMC 1430; S 3823). Fine, rare £60-£80
18th Century Tokens, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, Gloucester, Skidmore’s Penny, 1797, view of St Peter’s Cathedral, rev. Thomas Gorton’s cypher, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 26.26g/12h (DH 21). Light spotting, otherwise extremely fine, rare £80-£100
Hammer Price: £120
Henry VIII (1509-1547), First coinage, Halfpence (3), London, mm. portcullis, 0.25g/6h (N 1779; S 2334); Canterbury, Abp Warham, mm. pomegranate, wa by bust, 0.22g/3h (N 1780; S 2335); York, Abp Wolsey, mm. escallop, key below bust, 0.34g (N –; S 2335A) [3]. About very fine and toned, last clipped but rare £100-£120
18th Century Tokens, LONDON, St Paul’s, Skidmore’s Clerkenwell series, Penny, St Paul’s School, rev. fictitious arms, edge i promise to pay on demand the bearer one penny, 24.43g/12h (DH 158). From the usual flawed reverse die, extremely fine, much original colour £150-£200
Rose Croix, an 19th century Continental openwork jewel, perhaps French, silver pelican feeding young on compass, set with paste brilliants. Good very fine £60-£80
Rose Croix, Silver Masters Jewel, pelican feeding young on compass, enamelled red cross above, surmounted with a rose, the top suspender a crown, the other side an eagle with a silver cross above, silver-gilt, hallmarked Birmingham 1934, 95 x 70mm. Very fine and attractive £80-£100
18th Century Tokens, SUSSEX, Horsham, M. Pintosh, Skidmore’s mule Halfpenny, bust of George III right, rev. bust of Earl Howe left, edge skidmore holborn london, 13.15g/6h (DH 30). Spot in front of King, otherwise extremely fine with original colour, very rare £100-£150
A wooden-framed dealer’s cabinet by Lembit, 27.5 x 28 x 31cm, comprising 16 felt-lined uniformly compartmented trays to house a total of 631 coins and a deep bottom drawer, single front door, lock and 2 keys. In good condition and complete with all felts £100-£150
Robert Lawson Tait, 1890, a copper medal by J. Moore, bust three-quarters right, rev. shield and motto above legend, 51mm (BHM 3397; BDM IV, 140). About as struck, very rare; in contemporary fitted case £150-£180
Spain, Isabel II, 20 Réales, 1854, Madrid (CCT 167; Cayón 17200); Provisional Government, 5 Pesetas, 1870, Madrid (CCT 3; Cayón 17437); Amadeo I, 5 Pesetas, 1871, Madrid (CCT 23 [Alfonso XII]; Cayón 17452); Alfonso XII, 5 Pesetas (3), 1875, 1877, 1885, Madrid (CCT 24, 26, 8; Cayón 17503, 17505, 17517); Alfonso XIII, 5 Pesetas (2), 1888, 1898, Madrid (CCT 12, 27; Cayón 17633, 17647) [8]. Varied state £100-£150
Department of Science and Art, Queen’s National Medal, 1856, a copper award by W. Wyon, coronetted bust left, rev. legend within wreath, edge named (Charlotte M. Tills, London District Female School, Stage 23C), 55mm (E 1511). About as struck; in original fitted case £40-£50
Royal Society of Arts, Isis Medal, a silver award by T. Wyon Jr, head of Isis left, rev. wreath, named (Mr Geo. Steart, MDCCCXXI, For His Improved Tablets For Drawing On), 40mm (E 644). About as struck, set in glazed lunette; in contemporary fitted case £150-£180
19th Century Tokens, SOMERSET, Bath, Charles Culverhouse, Isaac Orchard and James Phipps, Shilling, 3.84g/12h (D 18), Samuel Whitchurch and William Dore, Pennies, 1811 (2), 17.43g/12h (W 19), 17.47g/12h (W 25); Frome, Willoughby & Sons, Mrs Jane Sinkins, Henry Ryall, William Sparks, William Gerard, Griffith & Gough, Shilling, 1811, 4.23g/12h (D 71) [4]. W 19 very fine, others about extremely fine and better, silver toned, D 18 very rare £140-£180
Edward VIII, Proposed Coronation, 1937, a silver medal by W. McMillan for Spink, crowned bust left, rev. arms and supporters, 32mm (Giordano 260b; W & E 6720; BHM 4302). About as struck, scarce; in original fitted case £150-£180
Beba cabinets (3), each of 8 trays, complete with all felts [3]. Good condition £50-£70
Victoria, Diamond Jubilee, 1897, City of Bath, a silver medal, unsigned, diademed and veiled bust left, rev. city arms, 32mm (W & E 3629C). Fields brushed, otherwise extremely fine, rare £50-£70
Charles I (1625-1649), York mint, Sixpence, type 2, mm. lion, 2.81g/12h (Besly 1E; SCBI Brooker 1101, same dies; N 2322; S 2876). Face smoothed, otherwise fine £120-£150
Carlisle Taken, 1745, a silver medal by J.H. Wolff, bust of the Duke of Cumberland right, rev. Cumberland as a Roman warrior attacking the Hydra, view of Carlisle in background, reads pullsi, 37mm, XXX (Woolf 52:1a; MI II, 604/258; E 597). Has been cleaned, otherwise very fine £150-£200
Battle of Culloden, 1746, a brass medal, unsigned, bust of Duke of Cumberland right, rev. Highlander kneeling before lion, 31mm (Woolf 56:2; MI II, 616/286; E 609). Fine £60-£80
GAUL, Armorica, billon Staters (3), stylized head right, revs. stylized horse galloping right (S 15) [3]. Mostly fine £80-£100
Carlisle Taken, 1745, a gilt-bronze medal by J.H. Wolff, from the same dies as previous, 36mm (Woolf 52:1a; MI II, 604/258; E 597). Wear to the high points, otherwise better than very fine £100-£150
Prisoner of War Camp, Douglas, 1914-1916, a white metal medal, unsigned, legend and date, rev. view of the camp, Manx arms above, 45mm (Eimer 1945). Good extremely fine, scarce; in wooden box with sliding lid £80-£100
Charles I (1625-1649), Tower mint, Shilling, Gp D, type 3.1, mm. harp, bust 2, mixed stops on obv., no stops on rev., 5.63g/5h (Sharp D2/1; SCBI Brooker 472, same dies; N 2223; S 2789). A piece of fine work struck from elegantly cut dies, creased, otherwise good fine, rare £200-£260
Glendining & Co [London], Catalogue of Tokens formed by the late S.H. Hamer, Esq, of Halifax, 26-8 November 1930, 802 lots, 10 plates; together with other miscellaneous catalogues of medals and tokens, etc (26), 1986-93, including Kotzen, Zabriskie, A.P. Adams complete, Mitchiner, Schwer, etc [Lot]. Very fine and better; some recent catalogues neatly priced in pencil £30-£40
Christopher Wren, 1846, a copper medal by B. Wyon for the Art Union of London, bust right, rev. façade of St Paul's Cathedral, 58mm (BHM 2232; E 1411). Extremely fine £100-£120
Henry II (1154-1189), Tealby coinage, Penny, class C, Carlisle, Willem, [——]em : on : c[——], 1.28g/12h (BMC 213; N 957; S 1339). Edge partly ragged, otherwise about very fine for issue, toned £120-£150
Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage, London, 1904, xlvii + 277pp, 33 fine plates, copy no.205 (Manville 623). Publisher’s brown quarter morocco, gilt, t.e.g., a few pencil checkmarks, otherwise internally fine and clean but spine beginning to lift; printed review announcements for Davis’s The Token Coinage of Warwickshire from the Birmingham Daily Post, Jan. 15th 1895, and the Birmingham Daily Gazette, Jan. 15th 1895, and a newspaper cutting relating to 19th century...
Edward VI (1547-1553), Third period, 3 oz. base issue, Pennies (2), London, mm. escallop on obv. only, 0.69g/9h, York, mm. mullet, 0.73g/1h (N 1945-6; S 2474-5) [2]. Good fine, but last with striking split £120-£150
United States of America, Cent, 1872, bold n in one. Very fine £120-£150
Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, 1st edn, London, 1853, xlviii + 237pp, 2 engraved plates (Manville 379); Milne, J.G., Catalogue of Oxfordshire Seventeenth Century Tokens, Oxford, 1935, xx + 48pp, 16 plates (Manville 927); Wetton, J.L., The Isle of Wight Seventeenth Century Traders’ Tokens, Lymington, 1962, 8pp, 2 plates (Manville 1095); Wetton, J.L. (ed), The Hampshire Seventeenth Century...
Hammer Price: £110
Cnut (1016-1035), Penny, Short Cross type, Dover, Leofwine, leofpine on dof :, 0.95g/9h (SCBI Copenhagen 385-7; BEH 339; N 790; S 1159). Flan cracked and chipped at 12 o’clock, otherwise about very fine, toned £100-£150
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