LOT 4301
United States of America AR Seated Liberty Half Dollar or 50 Cents. Dated 1853. New Orleans mint. Date with arrows, and rays on reverse.
Thirteen stars around Liberty seated to right, head to left, holding stick with cap and resting her right arm on shield inscribed LIBERTY; date with arrows below / UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, eagle facing, wings spread, head to left, holding branch and arrows, rays extending outward; mintmark and denomination below. KM 79. Near Fine.(12.09gr, 30mm, 6h.).
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson.
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LOT 4301
United States of America AR Seated Liberty Half Dollar or 50 Cents.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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German States. Bavaria (Kingdom), Ludwig II AR Vereinsthaler. Dated 1865. München mint.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Designs by Carl Friedrich Voigt. LUDWIG II KŒNIG V. BAYERN, head to right, C.VOIGT in small lettering below / EIN VEREINSTHALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN, crowned arms of Bavaria supported by two crowned standing lions; date below. Edge inscription: GOTT SEGNE BAYERN. AKS 173; Jaeger 5 Bay 101; KM 869; Davenport GT III 609. 13.78gr, 33mm, 12h.
Good Very Fine.
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey; thence by descent to his grandson. -
Austria. Holy Roman Empire, Maria Theresia AR Posthumous Thaler. Dated 1780. Restrike.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
M · THERESIA · D · G · R · IMP · HU · BO · REG ·, veilied and crowned bust of Empress Maria Theresia of Habsburg to right; S · F · below / ARCHID · AVST · DUX · BURG · CO · TYR · 1780 · ☓, coat of arms of Maria Theresia on double-crowned shield divided into four fields representing Hungary, Bohemia, Burgundy, and Burgau (Günzburg); crowned inner shield with coat of arms of Austria; supported by crowned and nimbate double-headed eagle. Edge inscription: IUSTITIA ET CLEMENTIA. KM T1; Yeoman 55; Gigante 2. 28.13gr, 41mm, 12h.
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 the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s.
The Maria Theresia Taler was originally struck in Austria between 1740 and 1780. It was the circulating currency of the Holy Roman Empire and its dominions, and it was one of the most important trade coins in Europe and the world. After the death of Maria Theresia in 1780, the coin continued to be minted until today, with the date frozen at 1780. It is estimated that until 2000, 389 million pieces were minted. As of 2024, it is still sold by the Vienna Mint (Numista note). -
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.
