UNITED KINGDOM. George VI, 1936-52. Gold sovereign, 1937. Royal Mint. Proof. Issued in the four coin set for the coronation on 12 May 1937. The plain edge indicates that this is a commemorative coin not intended for circulation as the United Kingdom came off the gold standard in 1931 due to the Great Depression.Bare head of King George VI facing left; HP below; GEORGIVS VI D : G : BR : OMN : REX F : D : IND : IMP. Design by Thomas Humphrey Paget. / St. George on horseback rearing right, dragon below, date and B.P. in exergue. Design by Benedetto Pistrucci. Edge plain.Comes with the original box as issued by the Mint and the certificate of authenticity (COA). Reference: S-4076; KM-859; F-266Mintage: 5,501.Diameter: 22.05 mm.Thickness: 1.52 mm.Weight: 7.9881 g. (AGW=0.2355 oz.)Composition: 917.0/1000 Gold.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.This lot is exempt from VAT. Payment can be made in EUR, CHF, or USD for an exchange fee. Please contact us to find out more.
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UNITED KINGDOM. Elizabeth II, 1952-. Gold sovereign, 1989. Royal Mint. Proof. Commemorating the 500 years anniversary of the sovereign 1489-1989, this is the first special design issued under Queen Elizabeth II, often held to be the most beautiful coin design during her reign.Facing full length portrait of Elizabeth II seated in King Edward's Chair as at her coronation, all within beaded border; legend around in Medieval typeface, ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA · REG · FID · DEF ·. Design by Bernard Sindall. / Crowned Royal Shield of Arms set in a double Tudor rose, within beaded circle; inscription around in medieval typeface, 'ANNIVERSARY · OF · THE · GOLD · SOVEREIGN · 1489 · 1989'. Design by Bernard R. Sindall. Edge milled.ex-TCC Auction 55, Lot 203. In secure plastic holder, graded NGC PF 70 ULTRA CAMEO, certification number 6031985-003. NGC Census in this grade: 150, equal-finest graded.Total NGC Census: 488Reference: S-SC3 (was 4272); KM-956Mintage: 23,471.Diameter: 22.05 mm.Thickness: 1.52 mm.Weight: 7.9881 g. (AGW=0.2355 oz.)Composition: 917.0/1000 Gold.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.This lot is exempt from VAT. Payment can be made in EUR, CHF, or USD for an exchange fee. Please contact us to find out more.
UNITED KINGDOM. Elizabeth II, 1952-. Gold sovereign, 1989. Royal Mint. Proof. Commemorating the 500 years anniversary of the sovereign 1489-1989, this is the first special design issued under Queen Elizabeth II, often held to be the most beautiful coin design during her reign.Facing full length portrait of Elizabeth II seated in King Edward's Chair as at her coronation, all within beaded border; legend around in Medieval typeface, ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA · REG · FID · DEF ·. Design by Bernard Sindall. / Crowned Royal Shield of Arms set in a double Tudor rose, within beaded circle; inscription around in medieval typeface, 'ANNIVERSARY · OF · THE · GOLD · SOVEREIGN · 1489 · 1989'. Design by Bernard R. Sindall. Edge milled.In secure plastic holder, graded NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO, certification number 4826627-003. NGC Census in this grade: 236.NGC Census in higher grade: 161Total NGC Census: 523Reference: S-SC3 (was 4272); KM-956Mintage: 23,471.Diameter: 22.05 mm.Thickness: 1.52 mm.Weight: 7.9881 g. (AGW=0.2355 oz.)Composition: 917.0/1000 Gold.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.This lot is exempt from VAT. Payment can be made in EUR, CHF, or USD for an exchange fee. Please contact us to find out more.
UNITED KINGDOM. Elizabeth II, 1952-. Gold sovereign, 1989. Royal Mint. Proof. Commemorating the 500 years anniversary of the sovereign 1489-1989, this is the first special design issued under Queen Elizabeth II, often held to be the most beautiful coin design during her reign.Facing full length portrait of Elizabeth II seated in King Edward's Chair as at her coronation, all within beaded border; legend around in Medieval typeface, ELIZABETH · II · DEI · GRA · REG · FID · DEF ·. Design by Bernard Sindall. / Crowned Royal Shield of Arms set in a double Tudor rose, within beaded circle; inscription around in medieval typeface, 'ANNIVERSARY · OF · THE · GOLD · SOVEREIGN · 1489 · 1989'. Design by Bernard R. Sindall. Edge milled.In secure plastic holder, graded NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO, certification number 2124065-002. NGC Census in this grade: 252.NGC Census in higher grade: 167Total NGC Census: 548Reference: S-SC3 (was 4272); KM-956Mintage: 23,471.Diameter: 22.05 mm.Thickness: 1.52 mm.Weight: 7.9881 g. (AGW=0.2355 oz.)Composition: 917.0/1000 Gold.PLEASE NOTE: 6% Buyer Premium + VAT on this lot. No other fees, including live bidding. Delivery cost will be added to your order.This lot is exempt from VAT. Payment can be made in EUR, CHF, or USD for an exchange fee. Please contact us to find out more.
Mixed Lot: a Georgian toddy ladle, the oval bowl with coin inset dated 1757, London 1791, the bowl measuring 8.5cm x 5.5cm (lacking handle), a pair of Victorian fiddle pattern sugar tongs, London 1869, a George IV Fiddle and thread pattern butter knife, London 1829, and a pair of Victorian Fiddle pattern salt spoons, London 1841 (5), 145gms g/w
Mixed Lot: Georgian silver and whalebone handle toddy ladle, the oval bowl with coin inset, 38cm long, together with a Victorian horn spoon with a sterling terminal and a fish detailed plaque to handle, the end with a white metal tag 'Best Wishes for 1895 in recollection of three pleasant days on the Tweed' (2)
Coins, Great Britain & World, The Sapphire Coronation Jubilee Sovereign Three Coin Prestige Set, 2013, comprising Sovereign, Half Sovereign and Quarter Sovereign, complete in capsules with certificate and in Hattons of London case of issue, together with a Bailiwick of Jersey four coin silver set commemorating the Royal Wedding Anniversary, AUNC with early signs of toning with certificates and in case of issue a selection of silver Threepences etc.
1st-2nd century A.D. A bronze ladle comprising a hemispherical bowl with a flat-section handle, ribbed bulb above and round-section hook with collar detailing, finial formed as a swan head with punched eyes. Cf. Tassinari, S., La Vaisselle de Bronze, Romaine et Provinciale, au Musée des Antiquités Nationales, XXIXe supplément de Gallia, Paris, 1975, items 40-3, for ladles with similar animal-head finials; cf. also Boucher, S., Inventaire des Collections Publiques Françaises - 17 Vienne: Bronzes Antiques, Paris, 1971; pp.168-169, for similar specimens. 145 grams, 27 cm (10 5/8 in). UK private collection before 2000. UK art market. Property of a London gentleman. This type of ladle was used for libations of wine to the gods during sacrifices. The shape of the simpulum was that of a small cup, with a single elongated handle. The material of which it was made varied according to the wealth of the altar; there were specimens in silver; some were of brass and others made of wood or terracotta. This simpulum or simpuvium is often found depicted on Roman medals. Thus a coin of the gens Seslia bears on the reverse a tripod having on its left a sacena oracieris, or pontifical axe (securis pontificalis) and on its right a simpulum. Another coin, belonging to the gens Sulpicia, displays a simpulum between a knife and a sacena oracieris on the reverse. Fine condition.
5th-7th century A.D. A gold coin pendant formed from a Pseudo-Imperial, uncertain Germanic tribes gold quinarius of the late 3rd-early 4th century A.D. with: Obv: EANOV PI INO AVG legend with E sideways (for ANTONEINOC AVG?) with laureate bust right. Rev: OXPWMEN legend above lion walking left; EVTVXI in exergue; legends blundered, with ribbed suspension loop affixed. See Sergeev 225 corrigenda (same dies, but described as a panther); see Triton XIX (2016) sale lot 599 (same dies, but misdated and the reverse legend misinterpreted); see the Aurum Barbarorum Collection, sold Leu (Zürich), October 2021 (same dies, with similar suspension). 2.90 grams, 17 mm (3/4 in). Ex UK private collection. Andrei Sergeev, in Barbarian Coins on the Territory between the Balkans and Central Asia - Catalog of Andrei Sergeev's Collection at the State Historical Museum, Moscow, 2012, says '.In the light of recent research, we know that it is certainly part of the Aurum Barbarorum from north of the Danube. This situates the coin in a very specific historical background and dates it to the late 3rd and early 4th century.' The design type is likely to be derived from copying Roman Provincial bronze issues; one of the more probable prototypes was issued at Nicopolis ad Istrum in the reign of Elagabalus (see Varbanov I, 3858). It has a very similar head with Elagabalus' typical large eye on the obverse and an almost identical lion walking to the left on the reverse. Fine condition.
3rd-4th century A.D. A bronze statuette modelled as the god Mercury standing nude with the exception of a mantle wrapped around his shoulders, exposing his muscular torso, short hair and semi-naturalistic facial detailing, holding a coin purse; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 193 grams total, 84 mm high including stand (3 1/4 in). German art market before 2000. With a European gentleman living in the UK. Property of a Surrey gentleman. Fine condition.
Collection of football related collector's badges and commemorative coins,including large quantity of Football London lapel badges; German 2006 Bidding badge; American Airlines England Football Squad badge; Celtic FC pin; Leeds United FC badge; Play up Thames "Smoke Clubs" badge; Graham Taylor Blue and White Army badges; Blackpool FC badge; England 2006 badge; B.R.F.A. badge; Liverpool FC badge; Manchester United badge; England Euro's 1992 badge; British Empire Exhibition 1934 badge; England badge and many more, some duplication; sold together with four near complete commemorative coin sets including FA Cup Centenary 1872-1972 and two near complete The Esso World Cup coin collection, (qty)
Thirty-three Imperial Russian silver and copper coins, to include a Nicholas I silver rouble (1843); a Nicholas II silver rouble (1897); a Lithuanian silver 10 litu coin (1936); a Paul I copper 2 kopeks (1801); an Alexander I copper kopek (1829); a Nicholas I copper three kopeks (1843); and other Russian silver and copper coins. Qty: 13 / 20
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like sets (5), 1957, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL8) [30]. As struck; in card holders £200-£300 --- Pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/f8b74870-224c-4d9a-9f2d-ae9300da98b9/468x382.jpg)
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![John (1199-1216), Penny, class Vc, Ipswich, Alisandre, alisandre. on. g , 1.32g/12h (Sadler 1689, this coin [dies O20/A21]; S](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/eace5305-a0e5-4406-9bd0-ae9300db6005/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like set, 1956, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL7) [6]. As struck; in card holder £60-£80 --- Provenance:](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/6d2aed07-82a7-44a9-a69f-ae9300dbc113/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like sets (2), 1956, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL7) [12]. As struck £100-£150 --- Provenance: Coin Ga](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/3e5643e4-31a3-4fd2-8077-ae9300d9e2b4/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like set, 1956, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL7) [6]. As struck; in card holder (wrapper split) £60-£80](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/b8e519bd-fc31-4354-8a81-ae9300d8390e/468x382.jpg)
Roman Imperial Coinage, Sabina, Denarius, c. 136-7, draped bust right with double stephane, hair plaited and coiled on crown of head, rev. Concordia standing left, leaning on column and holding patera and double cornucopiæ, 3.39g (RIC Hadrian 2570, this coin; RSC 3b; RCV 3918). Sometime cleaned, about very fine, the bust variety very rare £150-£200 --- Provenance: CNG eAuction 271, January 2012 (454)
![Miscellaneous hammered silver coins (44); together with coin weights (4) [48]. Mostly fair to fine £200-£300](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/59962556-6ba2-41e7-bfc4-ae9300d922ae/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like set, 1954, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL3) [6]. As struck, the silver toned; in card holder £200-£2](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/d1bdcf75-512b-4911-8b29-ae9300dcb8e2/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like sets (3), 1957, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL8) [18]. As struck; in card holders £100-£150 --- Pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/74d2b9e9-1b7f-4af5-ad7d-ae9300dcbdb3/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like sets (2), 1956, 1957, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL7, PL8) [12]. As struck; in card holders (one wr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/56f6c3e7-add5-45dd-bb21-ae9300dbc390/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like sets (2), 1956, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL7) [12]. As struck £100-£150 --- Provenance: Coin Ga](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/28603401-fa60-4b8f-8ba2-ae9300db53e0/468x382.jpg)
![Canada, Elizabeth II, Proof-like sets (4), 1957, Dollar to Cent (KM. PL8) [24]. As struck; in card holders £200-£300 --- Pr](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/9f3e301b-752e-4e29-85b5-ae9300dc2b6f/468x382.jpg)
Harthacnut (1035-1042), Penny, Jewel Cross type, in the name of Harthacnut, London, Brunman, b.rvnman on lvnde, bust left, 1.09g/12h (SCBI Stockholm –; BEH –; BMC –; N 808; S 1166). Edge chipped and several central cracks, otherwise very fine and very rare; the coin remaining whole and seemingly stable £400-£600
Italy, GENOA, Paolo di Campofregoso (as Governor, 1488), Ducato, 3.47g/7h (CNI 1-2 var.; MIR 126; Biaggi 952; F 388). Countermark of a bird on obverse, possible traces of mounting on edge, otherwise good very fine, extremely rare £2,000-£2,600 --- See lot 455 for another coin with the same countermark
![Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Facing Bust type, Ipswich, Beorhtric, br[–]ric on gipe, 1.11g/9h(Freeman 19; Sadler](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/30c3c628-4723-4817-83a4-ae9300da34e9/468x382.jpg)
Edward the Confessor (1042-1066), Penny, Facing Bust type, Ipswich, Beorhtric, br[–]ric on gipe, 1.11g/9h(Freeman 19; Sadler 768, this coin [dies O2/R4]; N 830; S 1183). Area of weakness at 12 o’clock, otherwise good very fine, attractively toned, scarce £600-£800 --- Provenance: Glendining Auction, 25 May 1972, lot 826 (part); B.R. Osborne Collection, Glendining Auction, 23 April 1991, lot 45; J.C. Sadler Collection
Charles II (1660-1685), Shilling, 1663, first bust, with error legend gartia (ESC 503; S 3371). Of rather bright appearance, otherwise good very fine and extremely rare thus, an exceptional specimen £3,000-£3,600 --- In the cataloguer’s opinion, the ESC rating of R4 for this coin does not truly represent its rarity in higher grades. In the last 15 years only three specimens have been offered at auction in the UK, including one by us from the Hulett Collection. The best of these was good fine but scratched on the reverse
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![Kings of East Anglia, Æthelstan (825-40), Penny, [Ipswich], Eadnoth, edelztan re+, draped bust right, breaking inner circle,](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/7e751905-027c-4dfd-84b1-ae920115662e/422ccaaa-8373-4700-80d1-ae9300dbd333/468x382.jpg)
Kings of East Anglia, Æthelstan (825-40), Penny, [Ipswich], Eadnoth, edelztan re+, draped bust right, breaking inner circle, rev. +eadnod monet around cross-crosslet, 1.28g/8h (Naismith E30a, same dies; SCBI BM 833, same dies; Pagan BNJ 1982, p. 58; N 434; S 948). Nearly extremely fine, struck on a full round flan, free from the usual porosity and retaining a light earthen patina consistent with being a field find; the third and finest known example of this excessively rare and attractive issue £8,000-£10,000 --- Provenance: Found near Amesbury (Wiltshire), 6 March 2022 (EMC 2022.0109) Naismith’s corpus records just two examples of Æthelstan portrait pennies struck by Eadnoth, from two obverse and two reverse dies. The present coin, which is seemingly only the third known example, was struck from the same dies as the coin now housed within the British Museum. It is the finest in terms of preservation. Æthelstan was a king of the independent Kingdom of East Anglia which emerged following the end of Mercian Supremacy in 825. Unfortunately, the paucity of contemporary written sources means that we know little about events in the region during the first half of the ninth century. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle relates that in 825 the Mercian King Beornwulf, after his disastrous defeat at the battle of Ellendum against King Ecgberht of Wessex, was slain by an anonymous king of the East Angles. Beyond this, little interest was shown by the Chronicle’s compiler towards the East Anglian kings or their activities. This fact, coupled with a complete absence of surviving charters from the area, means that we must turn to the numismatic evidence for answers. The identity of the first independent king of East Anglia is made clear from the hoard record, with the Middle Temple hoard being particularly informative. The large group, deposited at some point during the 840s, contained 243 early ninth century coins produced under various kings across England. Included within were some 39 pieces of Æthelstan. No coins of any other independent East Anglian ruler were present, making Æthelstan’s primacy clear. The name Eadnoth, the moneyer responsible for the striking of the coin offered for sale here, first appears on pennies of the Mercian king Offa in the 780s and then on coins of the obscure local king Eadwald who usurped power in East Anglia for a brief period during the late eighth century. Following this Eadnoth signed no coins during the first two decades of the ninth century, despite the productive nature of the East Anglian mint under the supervision of the Mercian Kings Coenwulf and Ceolwulf. Finally the name reappears in c.824 on the coins of the last Mercian rulers to exercise power within the region, Beornwulf and Ludica, before continuing onto the coinage of the independent king Æthelstan. Given that several decades lapsed between these episodes of the minting activity we ought to consider the possibility that these are two different moneyers by the same name. Elsewhere, attempts have been made to detect familial connections between successive moneyers operating within the same area who share similar names. The case of Eadnoth may provide another good candidate for such a scenario, and it is possible that the Eadnoth who struck our coin was a relative, perhaps even a son, of Offa’s moneyer. In common with all of Æthelstan’s portrait coins, the present specimen was struck at the beginning of the monarch’s reign, as part of an issue that probably lasted until c. 830. Æthelstan portrait pennies were completely absent from the Middle Temple Hoard. From this some have inferred that these early coins must had dropped out of circulation by this point. However, the same hoard contained numerous pennies struck under Æthelstan’s Mercian predecessors, Coenwulf, Ceolwulf and Beornwulf. It is difficult to believe that all of Æthelstan’s portrait pennies ceased to circulate on account of wear, damage and loss whereas those of earlier rulers consistently did not. We should not dismiss the possibility that Æthelstan’s Portrait coinage was officially called in and deliberately withdrawn from circulation in a renovation monetae. Such a policy was seemingly employed by the Kings of Wessex during the second half of the Ninth century to help bring uniformity to their currency and led to a total absence of earlier coins in hoards deposited after the reform’s instigation. It is notable that following the short episode of iconographical variation early in Æthelstan’s reign all of the East Anglian coinage, continuing throughout the reigns of his successors Æthelweard and Eadmund, was of a generally consistent design. If such a reform was implemented it would help to explain why the portrait pennies of Æthelstan remain so excessively rare, despite the general increase in ninth century coins discovered and excavated over the previous two decades. Works cited Blunt, C.E., Lyon, C.S.S., and Stewart, B.H.I.H., 1963. ‘The coinage of southern England, 796–840’, BNJ 32, 1–74. Pagan, H.E., 1982. ‘The Coinage of the East Anglian Kingdom from 825 to 870’, BNJ 52, 41-83. Pagan, H.E., 1986. ‘Coinage in southern England, 796-874’ in M.A.S. Blackburn (ed), Anglo-Saxon Monetary History: Essays in memory of Michael Dolley (London), 45-66. Naismith, R., 2011. The Coinage of Southern England 796–865, BNS Special Publication 8, 2 vols. (London). Naismith, R., 2012. Money and Power in Anglo-Saxon England: the Southern English Kingdom 757-865 (Cambridge). Stenton, F., 1971. Anglo-Saxon England. Third Edition (Oxford).
Two proof coins in boxes. A £5 Henry VIII coin with issue quantity of 10,000 weight 28.28g, alloy 0.925 Ag with booklet. A George and Dragon 2009 St George & the Dragon cupro-nickel, gold plated Five Pound Coin made by the London Mint Office. St George is the Patron Saint of England. The first references to St George were during The Crusades to the Holy Land in the 12th Century. He was recognised as the Patron Saint of England during the reign of Edward III. Coin specifications: Mintage Limit: 4,999 Metal: Cupro-nickel, gold plated Weight: 25 grams Diameter: 38.6mm Milled: Edge in box.
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