LOT 4278
Mexico, Republic AR 8 Reales. Dated 1860PF. Casa de Moneda de Guanajuato mint.
Phrygian cap inscribed LIBERTAD surrounded by radiant display; denomination, mintmark, date, assayer's initials and purity below / REPUBLICA MEXICANA •, eagle, with wings spread and head to right, alighting to left on cactus and holding serpent in beak and right talon; laurel and oak wreath below. KM 377.8. Good Fine.(26.83gr, 38mm, 6h.).
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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German States. Free Imperial City of Frankfurt AR Vereinsthaler. Dated 1864. Frankfurt am Main mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Designs by August von Nordheim. FREIE STADT FRANKFURT, oak-wreathed bust of Francofurtia to right, A.v.NORDHEIM in small lettering on truncation / EIN VEREINSTHALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN, crowned eagle with wings and talons spread facing to left; date below. Edge inscription: STARK IM RECHT. AKS 10; Jaeger 6 FHI 42b; KM 370; Davenport GT III 652. GERMAN STATES, FRANKFURT (1372 - 1866), 1864 VEREINSTHALER/THALER. Obv: Bust of Francofurtia facing right wearing oak wreath, tower either side. Rev: Crowned spread eagle facing left. KM. 370. Near Extremely Fine. 18.46gr, 33mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson. -
German States. Free Imperial City of Frankfurt AR Vereinsthaler. Dated 1860. Frankfurt am Main mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Designs by August von Nordheim. FREIE STADT FRANKFURT, oak-wreathed bust of Francofurtia to right, A.v.NORDHEIM in small lettering on truncation / EIN VEREINSTHALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN, crowned eagle with wings and talons spread facing to left; date below. Edge inscription: STARK IM RECHT. AKS 8; Jaeger 6 FHI 41; KM 360; Davenport GT III 649. 18.41gr, 33mm, 12h.
Very Fine.
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson. -
German States. Prussia (Kingdom), Frederick II AR 1/3 Thaler. Dated 1777. Wrocław mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
FRIDERICUS BORUSSORUM REX, laureate head to right / 3 EINEN REICHS THALER 1777 B(mintmark) in six lines within palm and laurel branches. KM 329; Neumann Baltic 507; Schön DM 150. 8.06gr, 30mm, 12h.
Good Fine.
From 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.
