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16 July | Coins & Medals
Auction date
Wednesday 16 July 2025
10:00 BST
Wednesday
16th July
1 - 171 Coins & medals 10am
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Lot 1
Sold
A VICTORIA JUBILEE HEAD FIVE POUNDS PIECE
1887
CONDITION REPORTWeight of coin 39.8 grams, coin is 22ct gold
Hammer price:
£2,750
Estimate: £2,800 - £3,200
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 2
Sold
A WILLIAM III CROWN
First bust edge reading Octavo 1695
Hammer price:
£90
Estimate: £60 - £80
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 3
Sold
A GEORGE III GUINEA
1773, Third head issue
Hammer price:
£720
Estimate: £600 - £800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 4
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD KRUGERRAND
1970
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 5
Sold
AN EDWARD VII SOVERIGN AND SIX FURTHER COINS (7)
The sovereign 1906, also four silver threepences and a fourpence and a Dutch 25 cents 1928
Hammer price:
£460
Estimate: £450 - £500
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 6
Unsold
A GOLD, DIAMOND AND ENAMELLED BROOCH
Designed as the badge of The Royal Artillery, mounted with single cut diamonds, otherwise with red and blue enamelled decoration, unmarked, gross weight 5.3 grams, width 34.2mm
Estimate: £150 - £200
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 7
Sold
A SET OF FOUR CANADIAN SILVER COINS
Commemorating The Montreal Olympics 1976, comprising two ten dollars and two five dollars, with a case
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £60 - £90
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
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16 July 2025
Lot 10
Sold
A VICTORIA YOUNG HEAD FOUR COIN MAUNDY SET
1854, with the original case
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £50 - £70
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 11
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
To include a Victorian double florin 1887, two crowns 1935 and 1953, a George III half crown, a Straits Settlements dollar 1908, an Australia florin 1914 and a Royal Army Clothing Department token numbered 739
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 12
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (15)
Comprising; four silver crowns commemorating The Bicentenary of American Independence, a 1953 crown, a 1953 nine coin set, a Victoria Jubilee head double florin 1887 and eight further Victorian coins
Hammer price:
£190
Estimate: £50 - £70
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 14
Sold
A JEWELLER'S COPY OF A HALF SOVEREIGN AND A U.S.A. GOLD DOLLAR PIERCED WITH A HOLE (2)
The gold dollar, 1859, combined weight 5.6 grams.
Hammer price:
£320
Estimate: £250 - £350
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 15
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD KRUGERRAND
1974
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 16
Unsold
A DIAMOND SET AND ENAMELLED ROYAL ARTILLERY BROOCH AND SIX FURTHER ITEMS (7)
The Royal Artillery brooch mounted with rose cut diamonds and otherwise with blue enamelled decoration, unmarked, a group of six Second World War dress miniature medals, mounted on a bar, a German half mark, engraved to one side with a First World War period tank, three aeroplanes and detailed Le Cateau 1918, mounted as a pendant and four further silver coins
Estimate: £150 - £200
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 17
Sold
A VICTORIA JUBILEE HEAD SOVEREIGN MOUNTED AS A PENDANT
1887, soldered with a gold pendant mount, weight 8.9 grams
Hammer price:
£460
Estimate: £450 - £500
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 18
Sold
A GEORGE VI MAUNDY SET 1939 AND A PART MAUNDY SET 1948 (2)
The 1939 set with a case, detailed Maundy Money, the 1948 part set, comprising; fourpence, threepence and twopence
Hammer price:
£160
Estimate: £70 - £100
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 19
Sold
A VICTORIA YOUNG HEAD SHIELD BACK SOVEREIGN
1864, with a case
Hammer price:
£500
Estimate: £400 - £600
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 20
Sold
A GROUP OF FIVE BOER WAR AND FIRST WORLD WAR MEDALS AND A DISCHARGE BADGE (6)
Comprising; a Queen's South Africa Medal with three bars, Cape Colony, Transvaal and Wittebergen to 52664 DR G.RANDALL, 8TH B., R.F.A., a King's South Africa Medal, with two bars, South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902, to 52664 DVR; G. RANDALL. R.F.A., a 1914 Star to 14621 DVR;G.RANDALL. R.F.A., a British War Medal and a Victory Medal to 14621 DVR. G. RANDALL. R.A and the silver badge For Services Rendered numbered indistinctly 135982
Hammer price:
£220
Estimate: £120 - £180
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 21
Sold
AN EDWARD VII HALF SOVEREIGN MOUNTED AS A PENDANT
1902, fitted with a 9ct gold pendant collar mount, weight 4.7 grams
Hammer price:
£240
Estimate: £220 - £260
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 22
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD KRUGERRAND
1974
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 23
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II SOVEREIGN
1974
Hammer price:
£460
Estimate: £400 - £450
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 24
Sold
SEVEN SILVER PROOF SILVER JUBILEE 1977 CROWNS, WITH CASES AND THREE FURTHER ITEMS (10)
Also a 1951 Festival of Britain crown, with the original box, a bronze medallion, commemorating The Opening of The Dining and Recreation Hall, Port Sunlight Works 1891 and a medallion commemorating Caernarfon Castell, with a case
Hammer price:
£110
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 25
Sold
A SHERBORNE SCHOOL GOLD PRIZE MEDALLION
The rim detailed 'DAVID SECRETAN JONES 1851', diameter 44mm, weight 51 grams, with the original case
CONDITION REPORTThe medallion is offered as a high grade gold, there are no hallmarks, we are…
Hammer price:
£2,900
Estimate: £1,800 - £2,200
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 26
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS (QTY)
Comprising; an Elizabeth I threepence mint mark portcullis, a Victoria old head crown 1893, a George V crown 1935, a 1977 crown, four restruck Maria Theresia dollars 1780, four Roman bronze coins and twenty-two further items, with a black tin cashbox
Hammer price:
£120
Estimate: £70 - £90
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 27
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II SOVEREIGN
1974
Hammer price:
£460
Estimate: £400 - £450
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 28
Sold
A GROUP OF THIRTY-FIVE SPECIMEN COIN SETS (35)
Being United Kingdom year type sets, with cases
Hammer price:
£260
Estimate: £250 - £350
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 29
Sold
A MEXICO GOLD TWO PESOS AND A GOLD MEDALLION (2)
The two pesos 1945, weight 1.7 grams, the gold medallion detailed JAGD-SCHLOSS-FUSCHL and marked 900, weight 7.8 grams
Hammer price:
£500
Estimate: £350 - £400
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 30
Sold
A VICTORIA YOUNG HEAD SOVEREIGN
1884
Hammer price:
£460
Estimate: £400 - £450
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 31
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH COINS AND FURTHER ITEMS
Comprising; nineteen 1936 pennies, a 1953 nine coin plastic set, a ten shillings note and eight further items
Hammer price:
£70
Estimate: £30 - £40
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 32
Sold
A GROUP OF COINS AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
Including a re-struck Maria Theresia dollar 1780, two further damaged examples, seven German five marks and one two marks, a notgeld ten thousand marks 1923, a quantity of Elizabeth II Commemorative crowns, five two pounds coins, a 1944 florin, a quantity of sixpences, a sixpence holder, two 1935 Silver Jubilee Medallions, with the original boxes and a sovereign cum half sovereign case
Hammer price:
£100
Estimate: £30 - £50
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 33
Sold
A GROUP OF MOSTLY BRITISH COINS (16)
Comprising; two silver proof crowns, 1977 and 1981, with Royal Mint cases, a silver gilt medallion commemorating The 25th Anniversary of The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, with a case, a 1951 crown, with the original box, three further crowns, 1935, 1937 and 1953, a re-struck Maria Theresia dollar and eight further English coins
Hammer price:
£100
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 34
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD POND
1898, mounted as a bar brooch, weight 10.2 grams
Hammer price:
£480
Estimate: £400 - £450
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 35
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH SILVER COINS
Comprising; four crowns, including 1887, 1890 and 1891, three double florins, including two 1887 and a half crown
Hammer price:
£260
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 36
Sold
A 9CT GOLD ISLE OF MAN GOLD PROOF CROWN
Commemorating 1900-1980, Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, weight 5.1 grams
Hammer price:
£110
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 37
Sold
A VICTORIA YOUNG HEAD HALF CROWN 1844 AND FURTHER COINS (QTY)
Also four Elizabeth II crowns, a Gibraltar five pounds, commemorating Trafalgar 2005 and further British and foreign coins
Hammer price:
£120
Estimate: £60 - £90
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 38
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD KRUGERRAND
1974
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 39
Sold
A SILVER MEDALLION COMMEMORATING THE INVESTITURE OF CHARLES AS PRINCE OF WALES AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
The medallion, weight 107 grams, cased, also a Canada dollar 1964, a group of pre-decimal coinage, mostly pre 1947 issues and a silver groat 1842
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £70 - £90
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 40
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD KRUGERRAND
1974
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 41
Sold
AN ELIZABETH II PROOF SOVERIGN
1979, With a case
CONDITION REPORTA sovereign weighs 8 grams, and is 22ct gold
Hammer price:
£500
Estimate: £400 - £450
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 42
Sold
AN EDWARD VII SOVEREIGN
1906 P
Hammer price:
£480
Estimate: £400 - £450
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 43
Sold
ELEVEN BRITISH SILVER COINS (11)
To include a George IV half crown 1826, a William IV crown 1836, a Victoria florin 1887, five various shillings and three further coins
Hammer price:
£140
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 44
Sold
A GROUP OF MEDALS, COINS AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
Comprising; a 1914-18 British War Medal to M-338583 PTE.R.S.HOLLIS. A.S.C., a silver fob medal, four Second World War Medals, comprising; The 1939-45 Star, The France and Germany Star, The Defence Medal and The War Medal, with an Army Council Forwarding Slip, showing four awards and box of postage, a group of four Second World War dress miniature medals, mounted on a bar, a silver sovereign case, London 1892 and five coins
Hammer price:
£30
Estimate: £70 - £90
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 45
Sold
A SOUTH AFRICA GOLD KRUGERRAND
1974
Hammer price:
£1,900
Estimate: £1,400 - £1,800
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 46
Sold
A GROUP OF COINS AND FURTHER ITEMS (QTY)
Comprising; eight U.S.A Kennedy half dollars, thirty-one pre-decimal half crowns, to include twenty-nine pre-1947 examples, three medallions with cases, a pair of enamelled cuffllnks, an India quarter rupee 1862 and five enamelled badges
Hammer price:
£140
Estimate: £80 - £120
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 47
Sold
A GROUP OF BRITISH AND FOREIGN COINS
To include Portugal, France, Ceylon, U.S.A, Switzerland, Italy, further countries and two bank notes
Hammer price:
£80
Estimate: £40 - £60
16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Lot 48
Sold
A COLLECTION OF BRITISH MEDALS AND INSIGNA (QTY)
Comprising; a 1914-15 Star to 98865. S.STH>W.A.BLANKS, R.F.A., a 1914-18 British War Medal to 98865 DVR.W.A.BLANKS. R.A, a General Service Medal with two bars, Palestine and Palestine 1945/48 to 2760 B/CONST.L.A.BLANKS.PAL.POLICE, a 1939-45 Defence Medal and The War Medal, further Second World War Medals, comprising; two 1939-45 Stars, an Africa Star, an Italy Star and The War Medal, an Imperial Service Medal, Elizabeth II issue to Albert Edward Thompson, cased and further items including miniature medals
Hammer price:
£170
Estimate: £100 - £150
16 July 2025
16 July 2025