Coins, Banknotes and Medallions

A Victoria Jubilee Head two pounds 1887 within a later gold pendant mount with ring suspension, total length 4cm.

An Edward VII half-sovereign 1903.

Two Royal commemorative medals, comprising Edward VII silver Coronation Medal 1902 and Victoria bronze Diamond Jubilee Medal, diameter of each 55mm, both with gilt-tooled red leather boxes of issue and outer card envelopes.

A Victoria silver Diamond Jubilee Medal, diameter 55mm, with gilt-tooled red leather box of issue.

A Metalimport Limited Sir Winston Churchill Stamp Replicas 18ct gold two-ingot set, with case of issue and certificates, Nos. A  1452 and B 1452, together with a matching first day stamp cover.

A large collection of European and world banknotes, including United Kingdom, Central Bank of Egypt, United Arab Emirates, States of Guernsey, Government of India, Portugal, Spain and South America.

A collection of late 20th century Bank of England banknotes, including thirty-one helmeted Britannia blue five pounds notes, Chief Cashier L.K. O'Brien (mostly circulated), five consecutive one pound notes, Chief Cashier J.B. Page, and a ten shillings note, Chief Cashier J.S. Fforde (some uncirculated).

A Bank of England white five pounds note, Chief Cashier P.S. Beale, London 24th June 1952, serial number Y15 044873, framed and glazed.

A large collection of 18th, 19th and early 20th century European and world mixed coinage, including a small group of USA coins, including a cent 1858, a cent 1862 and a three cents 1852.

A USA gold twenty dollars1927 within a later gold pendant mount, unmarked, total length 4.4cm.

A collection of various commemorative coins and medallions, including a set of four John Pinches London silver medallions celebrating Sir Winston Churchill, cased, a Republic of Panama silver proof twenty balboas 1972 and an Elizabeth II Spink & Son London silver medallion 1977, the majority cased with certificates.

An early 20th century mahogany five-drawer table-top coin collector's chest, the drawers enclosed by two panelled doors, on turned bun supports, with lock and key (some damage to top right edge).

A large collection of European and world coins and banknotes, including two Republic of China Yuan Shikai trade dollars, 1914 and 1921, a France Louis XVIII five francs 1824, a Lundy Island one puffin 1929 and a Lundy Island half-puffin 1929.

A small collection of ancient and later coins, including a group of Roman and debased silver coinage, including a Roman Egyptian Empire Trebonianus Gallus tetradrachm 251-253 AD, and a Kingdom of Bohemia Charles IV Prague groschen 1346-1378, all within a converted rosewood collector's box with lock and key mechanism.

A Kingdom of Macedon Alexander the Great posthumous issue silver tetradrachm 336-323 BC, probably mint of Babylon, obverse with head of Herakles, reverse with Zeus seated left, weight 17.1g (extremely fine).

An Æthelred II hammered silver penny 978-1016, crux type, moneyer 'Eadpold mo Lvn', Eadwold, London Mint, Sp 1148 (good/very fine though portrait scuffed, cabinet toned, irregular flan).

A King Cnut hammered silver penny 1016-1035, pointed helmet type, moneyer 'Edestan on Pinc', Winchester Mint, Sp 1158 (cleaned but good/very fine).

An Edward the Confessor hammered silver penny 1042-1066, hammer cross type, moneyer 'Atsere on Diodfo', Thetford Mint, Sp 1182 (flan a little uneven but very fine, dark cabinet-toned patina), with an old ticket detailing it to be from the Argyll Collection.

A William I hammered silver penny 1066-1087, PAXS type, moneyer 'Iernepi on Scrub', Shrewsbury Mint, Sp 1257 (extremely fine with old cabinet toning), with an old ink-written ticket detailing purchased from a Sotheby's sale 16.9.1887, Lot 74, Sampson Collection.