LOT 4251
Italy, Venezia (Venice). Anonymous CU 6 Bagattini. 1619-1649. Undated.
✱ R ✱ C ✱ ✱ ✱ L ✱ A ✱, facing Madonna with Child on right; ✱ 6 ✱ in exergue / ✱ SAN·• MARC·• VEN ✱, Saint Mark facing, making benediction gesture with his right hand and holding the Gospel on his left hand. Paolucci 734. Near Very Fine.(2.40gr, 24mm, 5h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Hong Kong. Edward VII CU Cent. Dated 1905. Birmingham mint (Heaton and Sons).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Design by George William de Saulles. EDWARD VII KING & EMPEROR, crown bust to right; DES in small lettering beneath truncation / ✿ HONG - KONG ✿, 香 港 一 仙, mintmark above, denomination and date below. KM 11; Schön 1. 7.62gr, 28mm, 12h.
Uncirculated.
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson. -
West Africa(?) Spearhead Money. Circa 18th-19th century AD.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Spear blade in the form of a long leaf, used as currency until the use of coins in the 19th century, issued by the local cultures. Cf. National Museum of American History, ID Number: NU.79.112.OC133. 1.55gr, 54mm.
Condition as seen.
From the collection of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman; formed from the early 2000s. -
Italian States, Venezia (Venice, Republic). Doge Andrea Gritti AR 4 Soldi Nouvo Tipi. Doge LXXVII, 1523-1538. ΛZ Massaro.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
ஃ LAYS ஃ TI-BI ஃ SOLI ஃ, Christ, nimbate, standing facing / • ΛND GRIT • S • M • VENETI • DVX •, St. Mark standing to right blessing kneeling Doge; Λ Z below. Papadopoli 140. 0.94gr, 18mm, 4h.
Near Very Fine. Pierced.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
