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LOT 3478
Cyprus. Windsor, George V AR Forty-Five Piastres. Dated 1928. Royal mint. Commemorative issue of 50 Years of Cyprus under British Rule.
Designs by Edgar Bertram MacKennal and George Kruger Gray. GEORGIVS V DEI GRA: REX ET IND: IMP:, crowned bust of King George V to left; B.M. in small lettering on truncation / 1878 CYPRUS 1928 FORTY FIVE PIASTRES, two lions in centre; K·G below. KM 19. Good Very Fine.(28.24gr, 39mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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Germany. Brunswick-Lunsburg, Hanover, George I Two Mariengroschen. 1708.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
*II* / MARIEN / GROS: / FEIN.S. / H.B with GEORG:LVD:D.G.D.BR.ET.LVN:S.R.I.EL.* around / S·ANDREAS·REVIVISCENS *1708* around Saint Andrew carrying his cross. Welter# 2201, KM# 52. 1.09gr, 18mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
China. AE Knife Money. Circa 1st millennium BC.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Cast bronze, knife-shaped currency used in ancient China, particularly during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, evolved from actual tools into symbolic money. 13.32gr, 136mm.
Condition as seen.
Acquired on the UK market. Property of a London antiquarian. -
Morocco. Moulay al-Hasan I AR 10 Dirhams. Dated AH 1299 (AD 1882). Paris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
فيه عشرة دراهم شرعية لضبط الحقوق المرعية around, 1299 اختير ضربه بباريز عام in centre / المسكوك الحسن الكيفية and المحقق وزنه على أحد الدراهم المكية in angles and centre of pentagram. Yeoman 8; Lecompte 188; Gadoury 1789 54. 29.06gr, 39mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Toned.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
