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Lot 784
David II (1329-1371), Second coinage, Halfgroat, class C, Edinburgh, mm. cross pattée, older bust with aquiline nose, tressure of six arcs, nothing in spandrels, crosslet stops, rev. small d beneath v of vill, 2.00g/5h (cf. SCBI 35, 398; cf. B 14, fig. 290; S 5110). Tiny edge chip and slightly small of flan, otherwise good fine or better, the variety rare £200-£260
Lot 431
George III (1760-1820), Pre-1816 issues, Pattern Halfpenny, 1790 (early Soho), by J.-P. Droz, in brown-gilt copper, laureate bust right, rev. Britannia seated left, edge guilloche, 16.14g/6h (BMC 952 [DH 6]; Selig 1326). Scattered marks across otherwise bright surfaces, extremely fine £200-£260
Lot 28
Early Anglo-Saxon Period, MEROVINGIANS, Childebertus Adoptivus (656-662), Solidus, Marseilles, diademed and draped bust right, large b before face, mas-iγia around, rev. xnildebertvs rxi, cross on globe, flanked by m-a, 3.55g/5h (BMC 1865,0323.18, same dies; Belfort 2566-7). Striking split at 11 o’clock, minor stress marks and some peripheral weakness, otherwise very fine with a strong royal portrait, extremely rare £4,000-£5,000 --- Provenance: found near Southfleet, Kent, on 17 October 2022 (EMC 2022.0377) Examined and tested by Arent Pol, the coin produced a specific gravity figure of 12.58, which translates to a fineness of approximately 35%. Childebert the Adopted’s short reign was borne of scheming and intrigue. As Grierson summarises in the introduction to MEC 1, ‘[f]rom 642 onwards to his death in 656 [the Frankish king Sigebert III] reigned in the shadow of his Mayor of the Palace, Grimoald… Having for long been childless, Sigebert adopted Grimoald’s son and gave him the royal name of Childebert. Subsequently he had a son of his own, the future Dagobert II. When Sigebert died, Grimoald set aside Dagobert and installed his own son as king, a usurpation which came to an abrupt end when a Neustrian conspiracy led to the seizure and death of them both.' Merovingian minting appears to have been a hugely complex enterprise. Variation was the rule; thousands of moneyers and hundreds of different locations are recorded upon the coins, revealing a decentralised system of urban political culture. Curiously, the name of the ruling Frankish sovereign was hardly ever employed, and this seems even more surprising when we consider the primacy attached to the imperial name and title on the late Roman coinage. The vast majority of Merovingian coinage looks, at face value, totally disconnected from royal authority. Only at the faraway mint of Marseilles do we find a sustained attempt to produce a coinage on the Roman mould - one which employs the royal name and systematically retains the use of the large gold Solidus. This series was produced throughout much of the seventh century, beginning under Chlothar II (c. 613) and ending under Dagobert II (c. 679). However, examples remain very rare, particularly in comparison to the relatively plentiful ‘National’ coinage, with the coinage of Childebertus Adoptivus being especially elusive. It is notable feature of the Frankish ‘Royal’ issues - and indeed Merovingian coinage as a whole - that a considerable proportion of the known specimens have been recovered from Britain. While Metcalf may have proven that the majority of these Merovingian imports circulated as money upon their arrival upon these shores, this need not be the case for the ‘Royal’ Solidi. Their absence from contemporary hoards such as Sutton Hoo and (more conspicuously) Crondall suggests a marginal function. A similar conclusion might be reached when we consider that the majority of the ‘Royal’ Solidi found in Britain show signs off having been converted into jewellery, either through piercing or the attachment of a loop (EMC 1982.9016; EMC 1990.0166; EMC 2005.0212; EMC 2011.0256; PAS KENT-4A1EA1; PAS SUR-09EA44; BMC 1865,0323.18 [presumably British found]; EMC 1, 406 [presumably British found]; Prou 1934). Clearly, these large gold coins did not circulate widely, and they were largely retained for use as personal adornment. In one case, a mounted Solidus of Dagobert I, a context of royal gift exchange has been proposed (Metcalf 2014, p. 55). Is it possible that all of these extremely rare coins (including the piece presented here) can be attributed to similar mechanisms of aristocratic exchange? One recalls the passage in Bede where the historian describes a dream experienced by the Kentish princess Eorcengota; a crowd of men had come to escort her away, and declared their intention to ‘take back with them the golden coin’. Such a metaphor suggests that these objects could be imbued with great personal meaning and significance.
Lot 879
Henry V, Halfpenny, class C, broken annulets by crown, 0.42g/6h (S 1794); Henry VI, Annulet issue, Halfgroat, Calais, 1.77g/3h (S 1840); Rosette-Mascle issue, Penny, York, Abp Kemp, mullets by crown, quatrefoil on rev., 1.05g/12h (S 1868); Henry VII, Facing Bust issue, Halfpenny, class IIIa, single-arched crown, 0.30g/3h (S 2244) [4]. Fine and better £80-£100
Lot 120
A New Mint for the Type Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Facing Bust type, Taunton, Beorhtric, brihtric on tant, 0.83g/3h (Abergavenny 119, same dies; Freeman –; BMC –; N 830; S 1183). Edge chip and perforated along outer-circle, otherwise better than very fine with a tall, handsome bust; the mint signature clear and until recently unrecorded in this type, excessively rare thus £800-£1,000 --- Provenance: found near Marton (Warwickshire) in 2023 (EMC 2023.0281) Despite its comprehensive nature Anthony Freeman’s survey The Moneyer and the Mint in the reign of Edward the Confessor made no record of the Taunton mint being active during the Facing Bust issue. The first known example of this type/mint combination was discovered in 2002 as part of the Abergavenny Area hoard. Following excavation the hoard was the subject of an inquest and was subsequently acquired, in its entirety, by the National Museum of Wales. Edward Besly published the hoard in the BNJ 2016, commenting that ‘In the case of Taunton, the Abergavenny hoard has added significantly to the total number of recorded specimens of Edward’s coinage, increasing this from 19 to 24 and providing the first record of the mint’s activity during the Bust Facing issue.’ The current coin appears to be only the second known example, and the only one available to commerce.
Lot 252
Durham House with Transposed Legends Edward VI (1547-1553), Second period, 6 oz. issue, Shilling, undated, Durham House, mm. bow, Durham House bust, transposed legends [king’s name on rev.], caul frosted, beaded inner circle only on rev., 4.99g/11h (Bispham 2B; N 1925; S 2470). Small mark on king’s cheek, otherwise nearly very fine for issue, toned and very rare £700-£900 --- Provenance: SNC October 1993 (7159)
Lot 1256
18th Century Tokens, LONDON, Bishopsgate, John Clark and Samuel Harris, Halfpenny, 1795, bust of George Washington right, large buttons on coat, rev. stove, edge grained right, 9.03g/6h (DH 283a; Musante 49; Whitman 10955; Breen 1271). Fine £60-£80 --- Provenance: Bonhams Auction, 15 December 2009, lot 455 (part)
Lot 29
Early Anglo-Saxon Period, MEROVINGIANS, Tremissis, Germany, Mainz region, uncertain mint, moneyer Charegaucius, vestigal diademed bust left, blundered legend, rev. cross on globule within inner circle, i i v [as mark of value] in first, second and fourth quarters, 1.18g/6h (MEC 1, 505, same obv. die [after recutting of inscription]; Prou 1165, same obv. die). Struck from worn dies, otherwise good fine, very rare, particularly so as an English find £700-£900 --- Provenance: found near Gateshead, Northumberland, c. 1955 The present coin is very similar to the Lord Grantley specimen, now housed in the Fitzwilliam Museum (MEC 1, 505) and that in Paris as described by Prou. Aspects of the obverse legend, and the way the diadem interacts with the legend, suggests all three coins are struck from the same obverse die, albeit after several stages of re-cutting. Prou proposed a mint reading reading of enegavgiia on the specimen available to him, while Grierson read the obverse legend on the Fitzwilliam coin as oenegavgiia, in his view meaningless.
Lot 1384
LONDON, Covent Garden, Theatre Royal, Second Theatre, Retirement of John Kemble, 1817, a silver medal by J. Warwick, bust right, rev. thou last of all the romans, etc, edge impressed retired from the stage 23d june 1817, named (Mr John Field), 41mm, 37.30g (W 559; D & W 139/299; BHM 1210 [recté 1817]). Trifling surface marks and rim nicks, otherwise extremely fine and dark-toned, very rare £150-£200 --- Provenance: J. Spencer Collection, DNW Auction M11, 13 July 2011, lot 1021; D. Young Collection John Philip Kemble (1757-1823), second son of Roger Kemble and brother of the actress Sarah Siddons, first appeared on the stage in 1776. He made his debut at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in 1783, and by 1788 had become its player-manager, a post he held until 1802 when he resigned after a dispute with the theatre’s then owner, Richard Sheridan. In 1803 he became manager of the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in which he had acquired a sixth share for £23,000, but the infamous fire on 20 September 1808, and the raising of admission prices after the opening of the new theatre in 1809, almost ruined him; he was only saved when the Duke of Northumberland came to his rescue with a generous loan of £10,000, later converted into a gift. Kemble took his final leave of the stage in the part of Coriolanus on 23 June 1817, and died in Lausanne.
Lot 247
Reading ‘VIII’ Henry VIII (1509-1547), Posthumous coinage, Groat, Tower, mm. grapple on rev. only, bust 6, reads henric viii, roses in forks, lozenge stops, 2.29g/12h (Shuttlewood 193; Stewartby p.526; N 1871; S 2403). Small striking splits and with the usual light porosity, otherwise very fine with a clear portrait; extremely rare with this obverse reading £600-£800
Lot 322
Charles II (1660-1685), Pattern Farthing, 1665, in silver, laureate and cuirassed bust left with short hair, rev. Britannia seated left, edge grained, 6.26g/12h (BMC 414; Cooke 778). Flan flaw on forehead, otherwise about extremely fine, toned £400-£500 --- Provenance: H.E. Manville Collection, Spink Auction 140, 16 November 1999, lot 605; Colin Cooke Farthing FPL 38, 1999-2000 (1180)
![Elizabeth I (1558-1603), Milled coinage, Sixpence, 1562, mm. star, bust D, 2.95g/6h (Borden & Brown 25 [O9/R6]; N 2027; S 259](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/68a71b5f-5e18-4533-b521-afe40107a925/e754ee56-70dc-420e-98aa-b06700c0421f/468x382.jpg)
![George I (1714-1727), Maundy set, 1727 (ESC 1618; S 3658) [4]. Fourpence tooled below bust, otherwise very fine or better £12](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/68a71b5f-5e18-4533-b521-afe40107a925/fa9d5e88-5ec4-40d9-849d-b06700c76e38/468x382.jpg)
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