I found some good stuff but still sorting. I have a junk pile to give away or trash and two piles of silver three penny pieces. 61 pre 47 and 29 pre 1920. Pics of the better coins will be posted shortly.
This is the rarest find in the group I think. 2 Piastres Sultan Fouad I 1920. It has an edge nip but grade is high and these have crazy prices online. Not sure if worth a slab when I send my next lot to PCGS with the edge?
Found these two matches for the token on eBay: 380562078727 200993760036 Took this from the description of the item in the first link, cool thing to have Richardson's copper Conder halfpenny token dated 1795. Obverse: View of Lady Fortune standing between two 18th century lottery wheels: "NOTHING VENTURE NOTHING HAVE 1795". Reverse: Text on six lines and round circumference: "AT THE OFFICES OF RICHARDSON GOODLUCK & Co No 12807 THE LAST PRIZE OF £30,000 SHARED WAS SOLD IN SIXTEENTHS”. Plain edge. Richardson, Goodluck & Co., were stock-brokers and lottery-office keepers with a business at No. 104 Bank Building, Cornhill in the City, and at No. 8 Charing Cross in the West End of London. Goodluck was an old country woman who was made a partner purely for the use of her name. She received a payment of £50.00 per year and had no further interest in the firm.
Certainly seems to be. Your unidentified Chinese coin is a Zheng He Tong Bao from the Northern Song dynasty, it will date to around 1111AD but not fully checked up on it. Value will not be huge unfortunately, maybe $5-10.
OK.......well it might go to e-bay at 99c start then.......just posting some Palestine Mils from the group too. I understand the 1933 is a better date.....and these are nice cond.
A post like this makes me question why I stopped searching and sorting through foreign coins. I really did enjoy just sitting at the table and going through and researching them. I think I may just need to start up again. Nice finds.
All I can say it that it was a general British auction house that does not specialise in coins. Very few of the coins were described at all. Just took a chance.
