A belt made from silver coins (19) Crowns (3) 1676, 1677, 1818, Halfcrowns (7) 1698, 1709, 1745 LIMA, 1817, 1826, 1834 (2), Trade Dollar 1899B, Eighteen Pence Bank Token 1811, Shillings (2) 1817, 1824, Mexico Eight Reales 1802, India Half Rupee 1835, Italy Lire 1863 M BN, Portugal 200 Reis 1862, and German States - Prussia 1/6 Reichsthaler 1817D VG to VF, all coins mounted on the edges, total weight 315 grammes, an interesting item
A silver crucifix on a chain, the chain not hallmarked, presumed not silver, Enamelled badges (4) The Textile Officials Associations, Marinha Do Brasil, and I am a cococub, an ornate brass spoon, the handle made of two figures a sterling silver ring and a base metal ring, each with a gemstone, metal toy figures (19) Cricketers (15) batsman, bowler, fielders , wicket-keeper and umpires, Figures on horseback (3) and soldier (1), a bracelet silver-coloured, not hallmarked so presumed not silver, Boy Scouts sew-on badges (7) , an enemel Civil Defence badge, a small fork-shaped implement by Robert Kelly & Sons Liverpool, a magnifying glass, and a decorative bottle top/lid, in a deed box
Accessories a large group includes Lindner Trays (8), Abafil Trays (39), Capsules, Stock boxes (a few Coindex), Albums, pages and dividers, Display trays to take various sizes of coins, many in very good second-hand condition, a useful group (lot, over 31 Kilos)
Books (20) Roman Coins and their Values by Seaby, 1954, Roman Coins by Harold Mattingly 1960 Edition, Coins of Greece and Rome, Volume I by R.A.G.Carson 1970, Reading and Dating Roman Imperial Coins by Zander H.Klawans 1953, Greek Coins by Charles Seltman 1955 Edition, A Catalogue of Greek Coins, Seaby, compiled by Gilbert Askew, 1951, Coins of Europe by R.A.G.Carson Volume 2 1970, Seaby Standard Catalogue 1956, Copper Coins and Tokens of the British Isles Seaby 1949, Coins of Canada by J.A.Haxby & R.C.Willey 1971 First Edition, The Official 1971 Black Book of United States Coins 8th Edition, Coins of America, Africa, Australasia and Asia Volume 3 (1970) by R.A.G.Carson, English Coins by George C.Brooke 1950 Edition, The Story of the English Coinage by Peter Seaby 1952, Catalogue of the World's Most Popular Coins by Fred Reinfeld, revised by Burton Hobson, Humphrey's Coin Collectors Manual Volumes I and II, Bohn's Scientific Library 1853, Coin Collecting by Milne Sutherland and Thompson, 1951, Coin Collecting by Laurence Brown 1962, Collecting Coins by C.C.Chamberlain 1956
Books World Paper MoneyStandard Catalogues (9) General Issues 18-20th Century (3) 5th Edition, Volume 2, hardback, 8th Edition Vol 1 paperback and Volume 2, hardback, Modern Issues 1961-present (6), 5thb Edition, 8th Edition, 9th Edition, 10th Edition, 11th Edition and 23rd Edition, along with banknote albums (3) with pages and some dividers, in very good second-hand condition
Coin Cabinet made from a large strong aluminium case contains three trays (will hold 30 trays) 360mm x 360mm x 360mm in very good second-hand condition
Engraved Penny Obverse: Victoria Veiled Head, Reverse: an engraved pattern of concentric star shapes with a star of David in the centre, Fine/VF unusual
FantasySovereign 1847 Gothic Head, Reverse: as the Gothic Crown of 1847, 22mm diameter, struck in 9 carat gold weighing 7.16 grammes, A/UNC and lustrous
Halfcrown 1746 LIMA Bright Fine set into the base of a silver ashtray, hallmarked 1901, a small dig in the base otherwise in good second-hand condition
Jetons (23, four holed) includes Nuremburg, Hans Krauwinckel, King Edward II, Louis XIV and some ecclesiastical types, some portrait types included, many with attributions, in mixed grades Fair to Fine
Masonic Pin Badges RAOB (3) the first CMCB 18th Edgbaston Lodge, presented to Primo W. Barker 16/12/20, no pin, the second a Roll of Honour award to Bro. William Mitchell, Pride of Douglas Lodge No. 4101 Exalted 9.8.51 with clasp on ribbon stating 1st Deg. 5/10/30, 2nd Deg. 3/7/32 and 3rd Deg.2.5.46, in silver, the pin detached, the third awarded to Bro. Trevor J. Porter AD 7610, Victory Chellaston Lodge No. 2861 Exalted 18-9-93, in gilt silver with 1st Deg. 18-12-78 and 2nd Deg. 28.10.90 clasps and enamelled badge on the ribbon Good Fine to NEF
Mint Error - Mis-Strike 18th Century Farthing Token South Wales, Obverse: Laureate bust right SOUTH WALES FARTHING, Fine, along with Halfpenny 18th Century Angusshire Dundee 1797 DH21 Fine with a large rim cud from 3 to 4 o'clock on the reverse
Mint Error - Mis-StrikeGroat 1855 Fine, struck off-centre on an 18mm diameter flan with a blank crescent shaped area of flan about 1mm wide at the top, an unusual piece
Mint Error - Mis-StrikePenny 1948 a spectacular strike-through error a triangular area 15mm x 16mm covering PENNY and part of Britannia, Fine with a small hole in the planchet, along with a Decimal Two Pence inverse impression of two 1971 obverses, on a 2.5mm thick planchet, appears 'man-made' rather than an error striking, Fine
Mint Error - Mis-StrikeShilling 1948 English ESC 1474, Bull 4183 struck off-centre with about 1mm blank flan from 5 to 10 o'clock, causing a raised lip from 2 to 8 o'clock on the reverse, all George VI mis-strikes very scarce in an NGC holder graded MINT ERROR MS64
Mint Error - Mis-Strikes India and Indian States (7) Indian States (5) Jodhpur Takka (2 Paisa) Year 30 (1869) the reverse with a spectacular double striking around halfway across the coin and showing a patterned edge outside the beaded border, Fine, Gwalior Quarter Anna VS1986 struck off-centre with around 3mm blank flan Near Fine, Baroda Two Paisa VS1947 (1890) struck with a die rotation of around 75 degrees, Junagadh Dokdo (1907-1910) KM#45.1 (2) the first struck off-centre and with a 2mm raised 'lip' Fine, the second a multiple strike with an additional piece of flan around 3mm wide showing part of the reverse of another coin VG to Fine and unusual, India Pice 1944 with a small rim cud GVF, India One Anna 1919 a strike through error with two large irregularly shaped depressions in the metal at the top of the obverse each around 3-4mm in area Fine
Mint Errors - Mis-strike Sovereigns 2022 King Charles III - Queen Elizabeth II Memorial Sovereign (2) featuring the new portrait of the King by Martin Jennings, and an impressive new reverse design featuring the Royal coat-of-arms of Queen Elizabeth II. Both coins Lustrous UNC to BU with a die flaw on the obverse between the King's forehead and the second I of III, error coins in the gold coinage are very seldom seen, an unusual occurrence on such a recent new issue
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes (2) Halfcrown 1961 struck on a thinner lightweight flan of 9.6 grammes, Good Fine, DecimalTen Pence 1969 with the right half of the obverse, and correspondingly the left half of the reverse elongated, the edge milling intact, 11.19 grammes, Fine
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes (2) Halfpenny George III Contemporary Counterfeitundated, Fair, and Farthing George III Contemporary Counterfeit, the edge of a second coin has been struck, an arc obscures the date area VG/Fair, both are unusual
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes (4) GB BrassThreepence 1942 with lamination error causing the obverse surface to lift and split, Penny 1961 struck on a lightweight flan of 6.98 grammes, Fine, Shilling 1839 with NIAR : REG: F:D: struck incuse, a most unusual piece, VG/Fine, along with Shilling 1819 a contemporary counterfeit struck in copper with Roman 1's in the date VG
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes (8) Australia Threepence 1953 Struck slightly off-centre with around 1mm blank flan between 2 and 6 o'clock on the reverse, Fine, Tanzania One Shilingi 1966 struck off-centre with around 2mm blank flan from 12 to 6 o'clock on the obverse and correspondingly so on the reverse GVF, Southern Rhodesia Penny 1943 VF the central hole not punched out, NVF with some scratches, Rhodesia and Nyasaland Penny 1963 with the central hole mis-positioned around 4mm and obscuring the ON of ONE NEF, East Africa Ten Cents 1934 with doubled-punched central hole, the second punch higher and the right, so touches the lower right of the crown on the reverse, Good Fine, British West Africa One Tenth Penny 1925 with double punched central hole, the second hole to the left and obscuring the ONE TENTH of the legend, Near Fine, Ireland Decimal Penny 1980 struck on a smaller 18mm diameter planchet, Lustrous EF, Nigeria 10 Kobo 1976 struck off-centre with 1-2mm of blank flan, crescent shaped from 4 to 10 o'clock UNC
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes GB Decimal Issues (10) Two Pounds 2006 missing most of the centre section, has possibly been cut after minting EF and lustrous, Twenty Pence 2009, the obverse with many raised lumps VF, Ten Pence 1968 a strike-through error on the obverse, an 18mm length depression covers much of the Queen's portrait, Fine/Good Fine, Ten Pence a blank flan GEF and lustrous, Ten Pence 2002 struck on a 20mm x 19mm slightly oval flan EF, Two Pence 1999 with around 75% of the coin very weakly struck, the lower left quarter of the obverse and lower right quarter of the reverse show correct detail, the remainder extremely weak, NEF, One Penny (4) 1971 with part of another coin struck from 8 to 9 o'clock on the reverse causing a depression in this area VF, 1971 struck off-centre on an 18mm diameter flan GVF, 1988 Reverse design not struck, reverse shows a faint outline of the Queen's portrait, GVF, 1997 weakly struck with much of the centre of the coin area weak, reverse with portcullis chains normally struck NEF
Mint Errors - Mis-Strikes Shillings (2) 1948 Scottish struck around 1mm off-centre causing a raised 'lip' between 3 and 9 o'clock VF, 1966 English struck around 1.5mm off-centre causing a raised 'lip' between 3 and 9 o'clock NEF
St John's Ambulance Badge - THE ST JOHN AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION Maltese Cross at centre, reverse engraved 156158 LEONARD MARSHALL with annual service bars 1914,15,16,17,18,19,21,22,23,24,25,27,1928,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,40,41 and finally 1956 the reverse with 156158 and the 1928 bar with 20 years, 25 years (1937) and 40 (1934) years service bars attached to the left hand end the 20 and 25 year bars hallmarked 9 carat gold all suspended on one chain (a few date bars with a touch of verdigris). An impressive attendance record, unusual thus
Transportation Token - Engraved Halfpenny 1747 the obverse engraved with a fish and a ship, the reverse engraved with 'Margaret Searle' and G ♥ B engraving Fine, host coin Fair
World War I Christmas tin, Christmas 1914, in good second-hand condition, and Queen Elizabeth II Coronation tins, Presented by the Corporation of the City of Manchester 65mm diameter (2) these two each with a Halfcrown 1953 UNC in the base
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