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Clifton College (UK) athletic award to R.R. Reynolds for the half mile open.

 

Beautiful toning on that one!

 

Well, here is a real rarity for any GB coin collectors!
William II (Rufus) Penny, S1259, believed to be Osbern of Salisbury, 1087 to 1100 AD:

 

2 colombia coins i picked up. 10 centavos 1942 B PCGS MS64+ and 50 centavos 1934. both of them cost about 87 bucks.

 

1957 5 Rupee from Ceylon (Sri Lanka) marking 2500 years. MS-66

 

Ottoman Silver Beshlik of Mehmed IV (minted in Tarabulus Gharb in either 1672 or 1673):

 

@paddyman98 haven't I heard you say you have a Cuban heritage? I just picked up this medal and thought of you.



Spanish Colony. Isabel II bronze "Havana Water Works Inauguration" Medal 1858 MS62 PCGS, Vives-409 Oval 56x65mm. SE INAUGURARON LAS OBRAS PARA LA CONDUCCION DE LAS AGUAS DE LOS MANAN..S DE VENTO - DIA 28 Neptune standing on shell, holding a trident and reins of a quadriga of sea horses. Crowned coat of arms in wreath on water / 22 lines of script.

Metal: AE

 

As a collector primarily of ancient coins, I like the reverse design on this one.

ITALY
Victor Emmanuel III (1900-1946)
AR 2 Lire (27.1mm, 9.95g, 6h)
Dated 1916. Rome mint
Obverse: VITTORIO EMANVELE III RE D'ITALIA, bust of King Vittorio Emanuele III right, D. CALANDRA below neck
Reverse: Personification of Italy, helmeted and draped, standing left in quadriga, holding shield in left hand and olive branch in right; date to lower left below prancing horses; author and engraver's names in exergual line; L●2 below flanked by knots with mintmark to left and Star of Italy to right
References: Numista 7359
Mintage: 10,923,056​

 

MS-61

 

Fantastic!

 

That sure is nice one sir.

 

This arrived yesterday - GB 1713 Half Crown with Roses and Plumes in the angles. Nice coin, shame about the engraving on the obverse, but in hand this is far less obvious.
I read somewhere that the Roses and Plumes indicate the coin was made from English and Welsh mined silver, whereas plain angles indicate "recovered" silver.

 

Here are a couple new acquisitions:

BURMA
King Mindon Min, 1853-1878
AR Kyat (31.0mm, 11.62g, 10h)
Dated 1214 Buddhist era (1852/3). Mandalay mint, with dies from Birmingham, UK
Obverse: Peacock in full display facing slightly left, တံဆိပ်တော် (“Royal stamp”) around
Reverse: ရတနာပုံနေပြည်တော် (“Mandalay the Royal residence”) around wreath containing ၁ိသုံးဒင်္ဂါး (“Use coin as 1 kyat”) and date
References: Numista 6847
Mintage: unknown

Bright lustrous surfaces. A very popular type. From the Quentin Brisley Collection (1910-1997). Purchased May 1965 from Barkley? for $5.50.

“The Kyat coin depicts the personal emblem of the king, a peacock with a fanned out tail on the obverse side. The date depicted on this coin is 1214 CS Burmese era (1853 CE), the year King Mindon Min ascended the throne. It was widely circulated in Burma and was often called the 'peacock rupee'. Actual mintage commenced 'Saturday, 9 waning Tasaungmon (11 November, 1865). The machinery and dies for producing these silver coins were imported from Birmingham, England. These peacock coins were issued from the Mandalay Mint, which was set up within the Mandalay palace complex, the ruins of which are still in existence. In 1878, new bronze and gold coins bearing a lion motif were issued by Mindon's successor Thibaw. Thus, silver kyat production ceased.”

(from the Numista webpage; source: The Peacock Coins, Research in Burma History No. 3, Daw Ma Kyan Kran Do, 1979)




UNITED KINGDOM
Time of Victoria, 1837-1901
CU Farthing (20.0mm, 2.83g, 12h)
Dated 1890. Royal mint, London
Obverse: VICTORIA D:G: BRITT:REG:F: D:, laureate and draped bust of Queen Victoria left
Reverse: Seated figure of Britannia facing right, holding trident in left hand and shield with Union flag in right; sea behind with lighthouse on left and ship on right; FARTHING above, date in exergue
References: Numista 1013
Mintage: 2,133,000

In NGC encapsulation, graded MS 65 RB. Bright lustrous surfaces. From the Crichel House Cache, “Raindrop Race Wager.” In 1890 two friends were sitting inside the stately Crichel House in Dorset one rainy day. Noticing the raindrops sliding down the glass window panes, they each chose a drop and made a bet of £5 on which one would reach the bottom of the window first. The loser, disgruntled, decided to make things as inconvenient as possible and withdrew from the bank his £5 payment in farthings, the lowest value denomination, which amounted to 4,800 coins. The farthings were brand new, fresh from the mint, and wrapped in rolls of paper. The winner of the bet stored them away, still wrapped, where they sat undisturbed for more than 120 years until they were brought to auction. The entire collection sold for £63,440.
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Medal by the Royal Mint for the 1886 Ripon Millenary Festival.



Ripon Millenary Festival - Wikipedia