LOT 4424
Group of Seven Hundred and Forty Nine [749] Mainly Great Britain Coins and Tokens. 17th-21st century AD.
Various dates. Condition as seen.(4397gr total.).
ProvenanceFound Suffolk, UK. (UK buyers only, not for export)
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LOT 4424
Group of Seven Hundred and Forty Nine [749] Mainly Great Britain Coins and Tokens.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Great Britain. Hanover, George II CU Halfpenny. Dated 1746. London mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
GEORGIVS • II • REX •, laureate and cuirassed bust to left / BRITAN-NIA •, Britannia seated to left on globe, holding olive branch and sceptre; Union shield to right, date below. SCBC 3719. 9.76gr, 28mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson. -
Group of Two [2] Gibraltar, Elizabeth II AR Five Pounds. Dated 2005. Tower mint. Commemorative issues of the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
ELIZABETH II TRAFALGAR 2005, crowned bust to right / 1805 TRAFALGAR 2005 FIVE POUNDS, warship in full sail, another one in background. KM 1064. 69gr total.
Uncirculated.
From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman, formed since the mid 1980s. -
Great Britain. Hanover, George IV CU Third-Farthing. Dated 1827. London mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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. 1.58gr, 16mm, 12h.
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.
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