15th Feb, 2023 10:30 GMT/BST
Coins & Banknotes
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Assorted Copper & Bronze Coinage, highlights include 2 x Victoria 'Young Head': penny 1854 rev. plain trident, and halfpenny 1858, verdigris otherwise GVF to EF; Essequibo & Demerary stiver 1813, GFine etc. including a large quantity of halfpennies 1967 UNC; together with 29 x cupro-nickel crowns; 2 x Britain's First Decimal Coins; 1953 specimen set; and 3 x banknotes: £1 Series D and 2 x Gibraltar £1 1983 and 1986 issues
Sold for £70
Estimated at £70 - £100
Auction: Coins & Banknotes, 15th Feb, 2023
An interesting and eclectic mix of coins spanning over 1000 years of history will go under the hammer in Tennants Auctioneers’ Coins & Banknotes Sale on 15th February. Amongst the nearly 600 lots are rare and fine examples such as a Gold Proof Set issued in 1937 to mark the Coronation of George VI, an AE Drachm produced in Alexandria mint in the reign of the Ptolemy III Euergetes (246-221 BC), a Portuguese Joao V (1720-56) 4 Escudos (Peca) minted in Lisbon in 1727 and two consecutively numbered Bank of England white five pounds.
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Tuesday 14th February 10am-5pm and the morning of the sale from 8am
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