LOT 4261
Ottoman Empire. Abdul Hamid I AR Altmislik or 2 Zolota. Dated Regnal Year 10 [AH 1187 (AD 1783-1784)]. Kostantiniyye (Constantinople) mint.
Title; regnal year in left field / Name and titles over mint and date. KM 402. Near Very Fine.(26.15gr, 42mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceProperty of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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German States. Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Ernst II AR 1/6 Thaler. Dated 1869. Dresden mint. Commemorative issue for 25th Anniversary of the Reign of Duke Ernst II.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Gustav Julius Buschick, Mint Master. ERNST HERZOG V. SACHSEN COBURG U. GOTHA, head to left, B below / ✶ 6 EINEN THALER 180 EIN PFUND F. around DEN 29 IANUAR 1869 in three lines. Edge inscription: ✶ FIDELITER ✶ ET ✶ CONSTANTER. AKS 118; Jaeg 11 Sac 297; KM 150. 5.26gr, 23mm, 12h.
Near Extremely Fine.
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. -
Italy, Venezia (Venice). Anonymous CU 6 Bagattini. 1619-1649. Undated.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
✱ 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. 2.40gr, 24mm, 5h.
Near Very Fine.
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
