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ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Euboia, Histiaia (mid 4th century BC), silver tetrobol, head r., rev. nymph seated r. on galley, wt. 2.29gms. (S.2495), porous, but very fine, rare; Thessaly, Ekkarra (c.325-320 BC), Æ chalkous, laur. head of Zeus l., Artemis stg. l., 13mm. (S.2079), surfaces a little rough, otherwise nearly extremely fine, rare in this condition (2) * both ex BCD Collection, with tickets
Lot 480
† FOREIGN COINS, France, Louis XIII, ¼ écu, 1644A, rose, laur. and draped bust r., rev. crowned shield of arms (KM.161.1), in plastic holder, graded by NGC as Mint State 62 *ex R. L. Lissner collection, St. James’s Auctions, Chicago, 1-2 August 2014, lot 250 With beautiful original colour and very choice for type.
Lot 134
G BRITISH COINS, Victoria, proof five pounds, 1839, ‘Una and the Lion’, lettered edge, young head l., 6 full scrolls and 11 leaves to rear fillet, rev. crowned figure of the queen as Una, standing l. holding orb and sceptre, guiding lion behind her, DIRIGE legend, date in Roman numerals below (S.3851; W&R.278; DM.229), in plastic holder, graded by NGC as Proof 64, an especially fine specimen showing only faint hairlines with a superb portrait, lovely rose-gold toning, in plastic holder, one of the finest certified Unas! Based on the Elizabethan epic poem by Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, the design of the enchanting Una & the Lion five pound gold issue of 1839 remains emblematic of the English public’s captivation with their young Queen Victoria, who was a teenager when she assumed her position as head of the British Empire. She was young and untried, the Princess Diana of her time. Engraver William Wyon’s majestic image of her as the mythical fairy queen (the delicate lady Una, companion of the Redcrosse Knight in Book One of the allegorical poem) seemed then, and now, to capture the essential spirit of the Romantic Age, when adventuring ruled the British mind and when the world seemed Britain’s for the taking. Victoria’s ‘little wars’ abroad were all yet to be played out, and Victoria herself faced the kinds of challenges that no teenager could ever imagine. Over the coming decades, both triumph and defeat would burn into Britain’s collective body politic as the wild escapades of Lord Byron and his contemporaries of the first four decades of the nineteenth century metamorphosed into the realities of conquest and dominion, and as Great Britain reached the zenith of its imperial ambitions. Victoria’s most famous coin occurs with two small variant reverse legends, based on Psalm 119:133 and translating to state, or perhaps to pray, ‘May God Direct My Steps’. William Wyon seemed to sense and to express the untenable future of the Empire by the use of this legend, but his images of the queen guiding the British lion, engraved so deeply and firmly on this wonderful coin, evoked in the public a sense of power and an unquenchable belief in Britain’s right to be great. What Wyon created for the Coronation Proof Sets of 1839 was one of the greatest classics of the Victorian Age.
Lot 393
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, BRITISH MEDALS, Edward VII, gold medallion for the Coronation, 1902, by de Saulles, crowned bust of king r., rev. crowned bust of Queen Alexandra r., date on ribbon below, 56mm., wt. 90.5gms. (Eimer 1871), a light edge bruise at 5 o’clock on reverse, with original case, some light surface marks otherwise extremely fine The official Royal Mint issue.
Lot 272
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY TOKENS, Londo, Barking Churchyard, W.S., farthing, At The Crown (W.127); Bartholomew Close, Richard Kempe, halfpenny, 1666, Turk’s head (W.129); Basinghall Street (5): Tho Armestronge, halfpenny, 1668, man holding book (W.134); farthing, IOSEPH . LAVN--R, In, a cock in a hoop, rev. BASINGHALL STREET, I.M.L. (MD.-); T.M., At The George (W.137); G.S., farthing, At The White Horse (W.138); George Starckey, halfpenny, horse (W.139), fair to very fine (7) The Joseph Laun--r farthing believed unpublished.
Lot 1
ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Boiotia, Thebes (368-364 BC), silver stater, Boeotian shield, rev. amphora divides AP KA, wt. 11.34gms. (cf. S.2398; Hepworth 14); Federal Coinage (c.220 BC), Æ 17, head of Demeter three-quarters r., rev. Poseidon stg. l. (S.2413), the first with slightly porous reverse, both about very fine (2) *the first ex Maurice Collection, the second ex BCD Collection, with ticket
Lot 405
COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, FOREIGN MEDALS, Russia, Catherine II, the Great, Triumphal Voyage of the Empress to Crimea, celebrating the 25th Anniversary of her reign, 1787, silver medal, by Timothei Ivanov, bust of the Empress r., wearing classical armour, mantle over her shoulders, rev. a map of Russia, in considerable detail, her route depicted with a dotted line, legends in Cyrillic, 65mm. (Diakov 205.1; Smirnov 304 var.), about extremely fine, very rare
Lot 479
FOREIGN COINS, France, Philip VI, de Valois (!328-1350), écu d’or à la chaise, king enthroned facing, holding sword, coat of arms to r., rev. ornate cross fleury, voided quatrefoil at centre and leaves in quarters, within quatrilobe (Fr.270), in plastic holder, graded by PCGS as Mint State 63
Lot 406
† COMMEMORATIVE MEDALS, FOREIGN MEDALS, Russia, Alexander I, Death, 1825, silver medal, by A. Klepikow, laur. head r., within a circle formed by a serpent swallowing its tail, legend around, rev. all-seeing eye, radiant, legend around, date 1812, 67.5mm. (Diakov 429.2 [R2]; Julius 3818), toned, in large plastic holder, graded by NGC as Mint State 63, extremely rare in silver
Lot 444
† FOREIGN COINS, Cambodia, Khmer Republic, 10,000 riels, 1974 (2, the first a proof issue): bust of President Lon Nol l./celestial dancer, rev. royal emblem above denomination (KM.62/63); Indonesia, proof 750 rupiah, 1970, 25th Anniversary of Independence, national emblem, rev. Garuda bird (KM.26), in decorative wallet of issue; South Korea, proof 500 won, 1970, bodhisattva holding teacup, rev. arms above value (KM.12); Yemen Arab Republic, proof 50 riyals, 1979, Qadhi Mohammed Mahmud memorial, national arms, rev. lion r. (KM.11a), all about mint state (5)
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