Important British and World Coins

Miscellaneous, Maudslay Sons & Field, London: Copper check, 1852, symmetrical pattern of arabesques, maudslay sons & field around, rev. similar pattern, engineers london and date around, edge plain, 20.5mm, 5.02g/9h (Hawkins p.841, no.4; cf. Noble II, 1151); L. Schuler, London: Copper check, 1906, a souvenir of the machinery and engineering exhibition olympia around london and date, rev. stamped on a schuler compensating press around l. schuler 138 southwark st. london s·e·, edge plain, 20mm, 3.12g/6h (Hawkins –); Franklin Mint Ltd, Sutton: Uniface gilt check, King in ship [copied from a Henry VI Annulet issue Noble, York], back ‘rubberstamped’ for design minting coining above franklin mint ltd mint house, oldfields rd sutton, surrey 01·644·6114, edge plain, 35mm, 17.27g/1h; Pessers, Moody, Wraith & Curr Ltd: Uniface copper check, pessers · moody · wraith & curr · ltd. around central hole, edge plain, 15mm, 1.67g (cf. Simmons Mailbid Sale 31, 411) [4]. Second very fine and extremely rare, third virtually as made, others fine, first pierced (£30-50)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Joanna Tansley Collection of Patterns, Proofs and Coining Trials.

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Henry Maudslay (1771-1831) a pioneering precision engineer, together with a draughtsman in his employ, Joseph Field (1786-1863), entered into partnership as Maudslay Son & Field in 1821 (restyled Sons in 1832), located at 110 Westminster Bridge road, Lambeth. Until the business closed in 1900, the Maudslay firm supplied and repaired machinery at the Royal Mint. In 1851, when the Mint ceased to be operated on a contract basis, Maudslay's tendered for the coining work, but were rejected because of cost. Undeterred, Maudslay's succeeded in supplying coining presses to at least one overseas government, when the Turkish mint bought 13 presses from them between 1853 and 1860.

Schuler AG, a global manufacturer of minting machinery and presses headquartered at Göppingen, Germany, with its subsidiary, Schuler Presses UK, based at Tamworth, grew out of the company founded by Louis Schuler, an industrialist, in 1839. The company has been making coining presses for over a century and its products are in use in mints the world over. Schuler are the world’s only manufacturer of horizontal coining presses, employed exclusively for the processing of round blanks (Cooper, p.231)