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LOT 3422
Italy. Venezia (Venice), Antonio Venier AR Soldino. 1382-1400. Sigla 'M' of Massaro.
✠ ANTO VЄN-ЄRIO DVX, Doge kneeling to left, holding banner; to left, star; to right, ᙏ / ✠ S MARCVS VЄNЄTI, nimbate lion seated to left, holding Book of Gospels. Paolucci 4; Montenegro 139. Near Very Fine.(0.46gr, 15mm, 9h.).
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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Russia. 1917 Revolution AR 25 Kopeks. Dated 1896. Countermarked on 25 Kopeks of Tsar Nikolai II Aleksandrovich. St. Petersburg or Paris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Б.М.НИКОЛАЙ II ИМПЕРАТОРЪ И САМОДЕРЖЕЦЪ ВСЕРОСС., bare head to left; octagonal countermark: ''Deposition of the Romanov Dynasty. March 1917” in Russian / 25 КОПѢЕКЪ 1896 Г., crowned double-headed eagle facing with wings spread, wearing shield on breast depicting St. George slaying the dragon, with shields arranged across wings, and holding sceptre and orb; crown with ribbons above. For undertype cf. Y 57; cf. Bitkin 95-99, 202. 4.96gr, 23mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK. -
South Africa. George VI AR 5 Shillings. Dated 1952. Pretoria mint. 300th anniversary of the founding of Capetown.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Designs by Thomas Humphrey Paget and Marion Walgate. GEORGIVS SEXTVS REX, bare head to left; H P in small lettering beneath truncation / SUID-AFRIKA·1652-1952·SOUTH AFRICA, Jan van Riebeeck's three-master, Drommedaris, sails into Table Bay on 6 April 1652, to establish a new Dutch colony located at what is now Cape Town; Table Mountain is in the background; monogram of VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) in right field, M.W. in small lettering to lower left field; denomination below. KM 41. 28.27gr, 39mm, 12h.
Almost Uncirculated.
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. -
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Japan. City of Nagasaki, Tokugawa CU Mon. 1659-1689. Nagasaki Trade Coinage.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
元 寶 豊 通, inscription around center hole, read clockwise / square raised around center hole. Hartill# 25.62, DHJ# 3.170-3.177 3.29gr, 25mm.
Extremely Fine.
Ex Stephen Album Rare Coins, CA, USA, Auc 504, no.268. Property of a Middlesex, UK, antiquarian.
This coin imitates a Chinese Northern Song Dynasty coin.
