LOT 4215
South Africa. George VI AV Proof Sovereign. Dated 1952. Pretoria mint. Thomas Humphrey Paget and Coert Laurens Steynberg, engravers.
GEORGIVS SEXTVS REX, bare head to left; HP in small lettering beneath truncation / SUID-AFRIKA ✦ 1952 ✦ SOUTH AFRICA, springbok running to right, denomination below, CLS (engraver's initials) to lower right. KM 43; Hern S348. Brilliant Uncirculated.(7.98gr, 22mm, 12h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent.
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Greece. George I AV 20 Drachmai. Dated 1884. Paris mint. Third portrait. Designed by Jean-Auguste Barre.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΣ Α! ΒΑΣΙΛΕΥΣ ΤΩΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ A 1884 ΒΑΡΡΕ, bare head to right / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΟΝ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ, arms within crowned mantle inscribing ΙΣΧΥΣ ΜΟΥ Η ΑΓΑΠΗ ΤΟΥ ΛΑΟΥ, denomination below. KM 49. 49.04 grams total, 85 mm including case.
NGC AU 58, certification number 8237785-014. NGC Census in this grade: 6. NGC Census in higher grade: 903.
Acquired on the UK coin market. From the private coin collection of a West London, UK, gentleman.
Mintage: 550,000. Diameter: 21 mm. Weight: 6.45161 g. (AGW=0.1867 oz.) Composition: 900/1000 Gold. -
Samoa. Malietoa Tanumafili II Prood AR Tala. Dated 1974. Royal Australian Mint of Canberra. Thomas Humphrey Paget and George James Berry, engravers.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £34
MALIETOA TANUMAFILI II SAMOA I SISIFO 1974, head of Malietoa Tanumafili II to left; HP in small lettering beneath truncation / Coconut palm; to left, denomination; JB in small lettering below. KM 19a. 30gr total.
Brilliant Uncirculated.
From the private collection of John Meredith, acquired since the 1990s; thence by descent. -
Belgium, Kingdom. Leopold II CU Cent. Dated 1901. Brussels mint. Dies by Joseph-Pierre Braemt.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Lion seated to left, resting paw on tablet inscribed BELGISCHE GRONDWET 1831 ★ in four lines; EENDRACHT MAAKT MACHT above, denomination and BRAEMT F. below / LEOPOLD II KONING DER BELGEN ★★, date below crowned monogram. KM 34. 42.25gr inc. slab, 86 x 60 mm.
NGC graded MS 63 RB (#6671164-002).
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 117, 22 February 2024, lot 1491. Property of a Middlesex gentleman.
