4th May, 2022 10:30 GMT/BST

Coins & Banknotes

 
  Lot 433
 

433

R.M.S. Lusitania Medal, obv. KEIE BANNWARE ('No contraband') over sinking vessel, rev. GESCHAFT UBER ALLES ('Business above all'), Death sits in the booking office of the Cunard Line, in case of issue with original wartime pamphlet*; together with George I farthing 1721, obv. second issue laureate and cuirassed bust right, rev. Britannia, near Fine; George IV farthing 1826, obv. laureate head left, rev. Britannia, VG; Britain's First Decimal Coins specimen set; a 1953 year set; and 6 x cupro-nickel crowns.

*Produced on behalf the British Government following the sinking of R.M.S Lusitania in May 1915, the medals are a curious form of wartime propaganda which capitalise on an error in the original German design to infer that the attack on the UK bound passenger liner by the German navy was pre-meditated.

Sold for £30
Estimated at £40 - £60


 

Auction: Coins & Banknotes, 4th May, 2022

To include a wide selection of early and late hammered coinage, including Anglo-Saxon and medieval examples, and milled coinage from the reign of Elizabeth I onwards.

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