Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes

Australia, Sydney, Hogarth, Erichsen & Co, ‘Aborigine’ Threepence, 1860, kangeroo and emu under bush, remembrance australia, rev. Aborigine walking right, edge plain, 16mm, 2.35g/12h (A 692; Heyde R44; KM. Tn 119). Obverse about very fine, reverse better but with small surface metal fault in centre, of the highest rarity, very few specimens known (£3,000-4,000)

Provenance:
Found recently in an old collection in Chile.

Only five other specimens traced as having been on the market in the last 25 years, viz. Spink Australia, 2 November 1978, lot 464 (loop mounted and gilt, Aus$3,200); Spink Australia, 22 November 1979, lot 154 (ex Bergsøe Sale, Amsterdam, September 1903, ‘beautifully toned,’ Aus$10,500); Spink Australia, 20 November 1980, lot 305 (pierced at top = Osborne collection, Spink Noble Auction 43, 17-18 November 1993, lot 1018, Aus$4,400); Spink Australia, 19-20 November 1981, lot 457 (the Heyde plate coin, ex Sir Marcus Clark 1954 and ‘Tasmanian’ collections, ‘virtually mint state, the finest known,’ Aus$23,000); Spink Australia Auction 25, 13-15 July 1988, lot 1681 (holed, Aus$7,800). Illustrated on front cover