LOT 4019
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria AR Double Florin. Dated 1887. London mint.
Design by Joseph Edgar Boehm. VICTORIA DEI GRATIA, crowned, veiled and draped bust to left; J.E.B. in small lettering on truncation / BRITT: REG: FID: DEF:, crowned cruciform shields around Star of the Garter, sceptres in angles; date with Roman I above. Bull 2695; ESC 394; SCBC 3922. Good Very Fine.(22.59gr, 36mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 4019
Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria AR Double Florin.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Great Britain. Hanover, Victoria Gilt CU Penny. Dated 1861. Royal mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
VICTORIA D : G : BRITT : REG : F : D :, laureate and draped bust to left / ONE PENNY, Britannia seated to right, holding transverse trident in left hand, and shield with Union flag in right hand, date in exergue; sea behind with lighthouse on left and ship on right. SCBC 3954. 9.18gr, 30mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
Ex C W Peck collection. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George IV CU Third-Farthing. Dated 1827. London mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Design by William Wyon. GEORGIUS IV DEI GRATIA, laureate head to right; date below / BRITANNIAR: REX FID: DEF:, seated figure of Britannia to right, holding trident in left hand and shield bearing the Union flag in left; national flower emblems in exergue. SCBC 3827. 1.49gr, 16mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
Struck for use in Malta where the farthing was already circulating at a face value of three Maltese grani. The third farthing was made to be 1/3 of the weight of a farthing, providing Malta with a coin valued at one grano. Third-farthings were never legal tender in the United Kingdom. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George III CU Penny. Dated 1797. Soho (Birmingham) mint. Design by Conrad Heinrich Küchler. Cartwheel type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
GEORGIUS III • D : G • REX., laureate and draped bust to right / BRITANNIA., Britannia seated to left on rocks surrounded by waves, holding trident in left hand and olive branch in right, shield bearing the Union flag resting to right, SOHO (mintmark) on raised tablet below shield, ship sailing to right on horizon; date below. SCBC 3777. 28.12gr, 36mm, 6h.
Fine.
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
