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

Lot

№ 2266

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15 December 2005

Hammer Price:
£180

Uniface brass weights, c. 1750-1800: Genoa, Doppia, 12.60g; Milan, Sovranno (sic) (2, different), 11.08g. 5.55g; Parma, Doppia, 3.57g; Rome, Doppia (2, different), 5.47g, 2.73g; Savoy, Doppia (2), 9.15g, 4.57g; Luigi di Francia [Louis d’or], 7.66g; Doppia Spagna [Spanish Doubloon] (3, different), 13.47g, 6.75g, 3.38g; uninscribed weight, perhaps of the Kingdom of Sardinia, 1.76g (cf. Parsons Coll, Baldwin 12, 1187-90; cf. Eimer Coll, Spink 7, 497-503) [13]. An attractive group, very fine, mostly rare (£100-150)