LOT 4252
France, Louis-Philippe I AR 5 Francs. Dated 1850. Paris mint. Jean-Pierre Collot, Mint Master.
Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier, engraver. LOUIS PHILIPPE ROI DES FRANÇAIS, bare head to right, N.P.TIOLIER in small lettering on truncation / Denomination above date; all within wreath of laurel and olive branches. KM 737. Good Very Fine.(24.97gr, 37mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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Poland. Sigismund III Vasa AR Ort / ¼ Thaler. Dated 1624. Gdansk (Danzig) mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
SIGIS III D : G : REX • POL • M D L R PR •, crowned bust to right, wearing ruffled collar; 1-6 across fields / • MONETA CIVIT : GEDANENSIS •, oval arms between two rampant lions, date above. Kopicki 7505. 6.69gr, 28mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s. -
Italy, Venice. Francesco Veniero BI Carzie. AD 1554-1556. Struck for circulation in Cyprus.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
+ S • MARCVS • VENETVS, lion rampant to left / + FRAN • VENERIO • DVX, cross pattée. Tziambazis II 2; Paolucci 15. 0.46gr, 14mm, 7h.
Good Very Fine.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Swedish Livonia, Christina BI Solidus. Dated 1653(?).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
CHRISTINA · D · G · R · S ·, Vasa arms inside crowned monogram / SOLIDVS LIVONIÆ 5 · 3(?) ·, griffin holding two swords with its feet. Ahlström 5; Haljak II 1425; Fed 863. 0.33gr, 14mm, 12h.
Very Fine. Edge chipped.
Ex Parthenon Gallery and Coincraft, London, UK, 1990s-2000s. Property of a North London, UK, private collector.
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