Sixpences (2) Elizabeth I 1600 Sixth Issue, Bust 6C, S.2578B, Mintmark 0, 2.93 grammes, VG or better with some thin scratches, Rare, Charles I Group D, Fourth Bust, type 3 with falling lace collar, Reverse: Oval garnished shield with CR at sides, S.2811, Mintmark Harp, 2.82 grammes, Near Fine/Fine, the legend not struck up in places
ShillingEdward VI Second Period, Durham House Mint, Obverse: IMNICOS legend, Reverse: EDWARD VI legend, S.2470 mintmark Bow, 4.58 grammes, Bold Fine with two edge cracks
Shilling 1668 Second bust, Reverse with 6 strings to the Irish harp, ESC 1030, Bull 511, GVF with some light haymarking, the obverse with pleasing and well struck portrait, with attractive grey tone, further enhanced by flashes of gold in the legends, minor weakness of strike below the first part of the date, overall a most eye-catching example
Halfcrown 1927 Second Reverse ProofESC 776, Bull 3732 FDC in an LCGS holder and graded LCGS 94, the finest known of 49 examples thus far recorded by the LCGS Population Report, formerly in an NGC holder and graded PF66, the NGC ticket no longer with the coin, Ex-London Coins Auction A126 September 2009 Lot 1615, hammer price £170. When auctioned in September 2009 the coin was the finest known of 10 examples, in the intervening 12 years a further 39 examples have been graded and this has yet to be beaten
Halfcrown 1689 First Shield, Caul only frosted, with pearls, ESC 505, Bull 831 NVF/VF the obverse with some contact marks, with some residual mint lustre and gold toning
Decimal Coinage in mint state (£69.57 face), many in mint rolls Twenty Pence (£10 face), Two Pences £9.70 face, One Penny £19.24 face, Half Penny £30.34 face, Ireland Half Pennies (44), Jersey Half Pennies (14), the majority BU, along with Pre-DecimalHalfcrowns Elizabeth II (10), Sixpences (104) includes 31 in silver, Halfpennies 1967 (150), in mixed grades many in UNC
Half Sovereign 1893 Jubilee Head, No J.E.B. on truncation , S.3869D, DISH L518, NEF, Note: It is now thought that only around 4% of the total mintage of 4.4 million London Mint 1893 Half Sovereigns were of the Jubilee Head type
British West Africa One Tenth Penny 1956 KM#32 lustrous Unc a hoard of approximately 2,000 pieces accompanied with the original Royal Mint bag and seal. Before this hoard these coins were rare with the three examples we have previously offered realising between £300 and £460 and Krause lists them at $700 in MS60 (most or all of this hoard would be in much higher grades than MS60)
Farthings 1902-1956 (68) includes the scarcer 1914 and 1915 types, also the 4 different die pairs of the currency 1953 Farthing VF to UNC many with good lustre, BrassThreepences in a Lindner tray (29) 1937-1970, missing 1950, 1951, in mixed grades the 1946 and 1949 VF
Sixpence 1826 Milled Edge Proof. Davies 271P Dies 2A. Obverse 2:- R of GRATIA points to a bead. Single tuft of hair. CGS type SP.G4.1826.06 nFDC with grey tone, slabbed and graded CGS 90 the joint finest of 6 examples thus far recorded by the CGS Population Report
Engraved (6) Halfcrown William III Bristol, Pennies 1797 (2), Penny Victoria Bun Head, Threepence Token Birmingham Workhouse, and an unidentified Penny-size, an interesting and varied group, in mixed grades
Mis-Strikes (2) Shilling 1927 Second Reverse the obverse appears to have been struck on a larger flan so the edge appears to be half-plain, half milled, Good Fine Sixpence 1945 struck off-centre so the coin has a raised lip around part of the reverse rim, Fine
Channel Islands an accumulation (1450) Jersey (650) Threepences (300) 1957 (100), 1964 and 1966 a mixed bag (200), Jersey Pennies (350) 1945 Liberation (100), 1957 (100), 1964 (50), 1966 (100), Guernsey (600) Threepences 1956 and 1959 a mixed bag (200), 8 Doubles (400) 1947 (50), 1949 (100), 1956 (50), 1959 (200), in mixed grades with many coins in lustrous UNC, plus an additional mixed bag of Channel Island copper (200) largely 20th Century these in mixed circulated grades
GuatemalaPattern 1, 10 and 50 Quetzals 1995 featuring tourist sites and the birds of Guatemala (17) Each denomination in various metals including four in silver, Proof FDC
Halfpenny 1868 Peck 1792 (this coin listed) Not in Freeman, Numbers 178/598 lightly scratched in the obverse fields, Ex-Spink Numismatic Circular Feb 1983 Item 461, Ex-Michael J.Mangahas Spink Coin Auction 75 29/3/1990, to Lubbock, then to C.Cooke, who sold to a German collector in November 1991, purchased from Dolphin Coins 11/1/1994, Ex-Nicholson Collection 2003 item BN428, UNC and probably unique
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