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3 December | Coins & Medals
Auction date
Wednesday 3 December 2025
12:30
- 14:00 GMT
Wednesday
3 December
Lots 201- 299 12.30 Coins & Medals
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Lot 225
Sold
A VICTORIA JUBILEE HEAD SOVEREIGN
1892
Hammer price:
£620
Estimate: £400 - £450
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 226
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH MOSTLY ROYAL MINT COLLECTOR'S COINS
To include; a 1970 proof coin set, two Beatrix Potter 2016 fifty pence five coin sets, with two cases, a 2006 five pounds silver proof crown, mounted to a First Day Cover, celebrating The Queen's 80th Birthday, with display box and fourteen further items
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £50 - £70
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 227
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS AND TOKENS (QTY)
To include pre-1947 silver issues, Isle of Man, Lundy Island, Irish, three coin forgeries, a medallion commemorating The Gigantic Wheel, Earls Court 1899, various late 18th century half penny tokens and a set of three pennies, with a case
Hammer price:
£235
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 228
Unsold
A PAIR OF MEDALS AS AWARDED TO LIEUTENANT ROBERT L LARSEN, UNITED STATES NAVAL RESERVE (2)
The American medals, comprising; The Asiatic Pacific Campaign and World War II displayed with ribbons, a badge and a photograph, with biographical details to the back of the frame and a Saudi Arabian silver Riyal as recovered from The Liberty Ship, The SS John Barry, with Certificate of Authenticity, further details and display box
Estimate: £40 - £60
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 229
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II PROOF HALF SOVEREIGN 1980
With a specifications certificate and case
Hammer price:
£280
Estimate: £200 - £250
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 230
Sold
AN AUSTRIA 100 CORONA
1915
Hammer price:
£2,300
Estimate: £650 - £700
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 231
Sold
FIVE ROMAN, CELTIC AND HAMMERED SILVER COINS (5)
Comprising; a contemporary forgery of a gilt with iron core Celtic quarter stater, a Celtic bronze coin, the obverse with a facing portrait, the reverse with a stylized horse, a contemporary forgery of a Roman silver denarius and two European hammered silver coins
Hammer price:
£220
Estimate: £100 - £150
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 232
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II 1953 CORONATION MEDAL AND FOUR MEDALLIONS (5)
The medal un-named having a brooch fitting, a Swiss prize medallion for piano 1911, a silver medallion detailed BRAUNSCHWEIG 1964 900, an octagonal French silver medallion, detailed CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE DE BORDEAUX 1960, cased and another medallion, cased
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £50 - £70
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 233
Sold
EIGHT BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (8)
Comprising; a Victoria old head crown 1896, a U.S.A dollar 1923, a half dollar 1945, two quarter dollars, an Austria one hundred schillings 1976, a Mexico twenty-five pesos 1968 and a Victoria silver threepence 1900
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £40 - £60
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 234
Sold
FOUR SECOND WORLD WAR AND LATER MEDALS. A VICTORIA JUBILEE HEAD CROWN 1887 AND FURTHER ITEMS (7)
Comprising; The France and Germany Star, The 1939-45 Defence Medal, The War Medal, The Efficiency Medal, George VI issue, with suspension detailed Territorial to 1429310 BDR.H.R.CHADWICK. R.A., a box of postage, also a gilt metal brooch designed as a replica of the Coronation Anointing Spoon, mounted to the original card, detailed Coronation of King Edward VIII, with the original box
Hammer price:
£60
Estimate: £50 - £70
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 235
Sold
A COLLECTION OF TWENTY MOSTLY ROMAN BRONZE COINS (20)
Mostly third and fourth century AD, denominations including a follis of Maximianus, a follis of Diocletian and a follis of Galerius
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 236
Sold
A CATERPILLAR CLUB BROOCH AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
The Caterpillar club brooch engraved to the back F/O.V.B. Bowen.Morris, one red eye lacking, unmarked, length 19.5mm, with an associated case and biographical details, a pair of R.A.F. cloth wings badge, an R.A.F. cap badge, seven R.A.F. small brass buttons and a base metal cased Grana openfaced pocket watch, the caseback detailed G.S.T.P. J.5013
Condition ReportThe case is an Edwardian period brooch box, detailed in the lid, Busfield…
Hammer price:
£380
Estimate: £300 - £500
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 237
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II PROOF HALF SOVEREIGN 1980
With a specifications certificate and a case
Hammer price:
£300
Estimate: £200 - £250
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 238
Sold
A FRENCH MEDAILLE DE LA RECONNAISSANCE, WITH BESTOWEL DOCUMENT AND FURTHER ITEMS (4)
The French award glazed for display with rosettes, a dress miniature award with the original French case, the bestowel document showing as awarded to the recipient H M Miller, Lord Mayor of Liverpool, 13th June 1929, displayed in a frame, also an Imperial Service Medal, Elizabeth II issue to George Alfred Whitbread, with the original Spink and Son Ltd case
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £50 - £70
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 239
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH PRE-DECIMAL PRE-1947 SILVER COINAGE (QTY)
Comprising; half crowns, florins, shillings and sixpences, combined weight 994 grams
Hammer price:
£440
Estimate: £200 - £300
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 240
Sold
A GROUP OF COMMEMORATIVE FIFTY PENCES AND TWO SILVER ONE OUNCE BRITANNIAS (6)
See description below
Comprising; two Charles III silver proof fifty pence coins, commemorating The 2023 75th Anniversary…
Hammer price:
£150
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 241
Sold
TWO EUROPEAN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION PRIZE MEDALLIONS AND ANOTHER MEDALLION WITH CASES (3)
All bronze, comprising; the International Exhibition Philadelphia 1876, a Swedish medallion detailed Bergen 1865, named to James Buchanan and a Netherlands medallion detailed Amsterdam 1861
Hammer price:
£20
Estimate: £30 - £40
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 242
Sold
A GOLD PROOF UK ONE FORTIETH OF AN OUNCE BRITANNIA 2016 GOLD COIN
With numbered certificate of authenticity, detailed 1160 999.9 Au, weight 0.8g, diameter 8mm
Hammer price:
£60
Estimate: £50 - £70
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 243
Sold
A GROUP OF SPECIMEN COINS OF THE WORLD (QTY)
To include a Jamaica eight coin proof set 1974, a South Africa seven coin proof set 1967, a Haiti three coin set, a New Zealand six coin proof set 1968, a Bahama Islands nine coin set, a Jamaica five shillings 1966, a Bermuda crown 1964 and further items
Hammer price:
£215
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 244
Sold
A GROUP OF FOREIGN COINS
To include; two USA dollars, 1898 and 1923, two South Africa crowns, 1952 and 1963, a restruck Maria Theresa dollar, two Mexican coins, and twenty further coins
Hammer price:
£130
Estimate: £30 - £50
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 245
Sold
AN ISLE OF MAN PROOF THREE COIN SET 1979
Comprising three one pound coins, in platinum, silver and virenium, with a certificate of issue, a paper slip dated 1979 and case
Hammer price:
£230
Estimate: £180 - £220
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 246
Sold
A WILLIAM III CROWN
1696, has been cleaned in the past
Hammer price:
£185
Estimate: £140 - £180
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 247
Sold
A GROUP OF ROYAL MINT COLLECTOR'S COINS (5)
Comprising; a silver proof piedfort issue one pound coin 2017, a silver proof regular issue one pound coin 2017, both with original packaging and numbered certificates, a Windsor silver sixpence set, containing three coins, with paperwork and original packaging, a 2016 United Kingdom Definitive Coin Set and a 2017 United Kingdom Annual Coin Set, with original packaging and slip cases
Hammer price:
£60
Estimate: £60 - £90
3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Lot 248
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH COINS
Comprising; two 1935 silver jubilee crowns, two 1951 crowns, two Elizabeth II silver proof commemorative crowns, five 1953 crowns, an 1889 crown, a 1960 crown, a 1901 half crown, three pre 1920 shillings, thirteen pre 1947 half crowns and eleven pre 1947 shillings
Hammer price:
£200
Estimate: £80 - £120
3 December 2025
3 December 2025