Auction Catalogue

15 December 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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Tickets and Passes, Important British Trade Tokens, Coin Weights

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

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Lot

№ 2262

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£80

Turkey, Murad V, 20 Kurush [AH 1293], year 1 [1876], the rev. worn smooth and engraved pte w. o’leary, 8th ches. regt., rc at sides, palm trees and minaret above 59272 baghdad 1917-18-19. Obverse about fine and with traces of mounting, reverse very fine (£30-40)

Reverse only illustrated. The rc almost certainly denotes that O’Leary was a Roman Catholic