LOT 3515
Serbia. Milan Obrenovic IV AE 10 Para. Dated 1879. Designs by Ernest Paulin Tasset.
МИЛАН М. ОБРЕНОВИЋ IV. КЊАЗ СРПСКИ, head of Milan Obrenović IV to left; TASSET below / Crowned denomination above date; all within wreath. KM 8. Very Fine.(9.35gr, 30mm, 7h.).
ProvenanceEx German art market, 2000s.
Acquired from an EU collector living in London.
From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
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Morocco. Moulay al-Hasan I AR 10 Dirhams. Dated AH 1299 (AD 1882). Paris mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
فيه عشرة دراهم شرعية لضبط الحقوق المرعية around, 1299 اختير ضربه بباريز عام in centre / المسكوك الحسن الكيفية and المحقق وزنه على أحد الدراهم المكية in angles and centre of pentagram. Yeoman 8; Lecompte 188; Gadoury 1789 54. 29.06gr, 39mm, 12h.
Extremely Fine. Toned.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Ottoman Empire. Abdul Mejid I CU 40 Para. Dually dated RY 18 and AH 1255 (AD 1857). Qustantiniyah (Constantinople) mint. Countermarked for the church of 'Birth of Christ Saviour' in Thasos.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Toughra; ١٨ سنة (RY) below / عز نصره ضرب في قسطنطينية around denomination; AH accession date below; c/m: ΣΓΧ 1883 [ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ ΓΕΝΝΗΣΙΣ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ 1883 (=Birth of Christ Saviour 1883)] in angles of cross. KM 670 (Turkey); Wilski G18-08. 21.29gr, 37mm.
Very Fine.
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
Ottoman copper coins were countermarked for use in Greek communities under Turkish control, who continually suffered a shortage of coinage. -
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.
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