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Charles 1st Strip of 7 Farthings
(dies 7,8,9,1,2,3,4).
As Struck and of the highest rarity


 
Charles I 1625-49
Robert Devereux 3rd Earl of Essex
Military Reward 1642
By T.Rawlins

Charles I 1624-49
Openwork by Rawlins
A wonderfull openwork high quality Royalist badge
Uniface

   
Edward IV
Groat 1461-1470
mm sun, CIVITAS LONDON
As struck 2.98g S.2000

   

4 Testerns (four reales) silver,
Queen Elizabeth I (1558-1603),
East India Company.
GENERAL TRADE COINAGE ISSUE,OR,'PORTCULLIS COINAGE'
mintmark O, (1600)
obv. crowned arms, around O: ELIZABETH. D;G; ANG; FRA; ET. HIBER; REGINA. crowned E R at sides
rev. O: POSVI. DEVM. ADIVTOREM. MEVM
around crowned portcullis
THE FINEST KNOWN SPECIMAN

   
Charles II
1660-1685
Tin Farthing
Corrosion free



1723
George I Halfcrown

SSC [South Sea Company]


1776
George III

Pattern Third Guinea



AD 193-211
THRACE, Anchialus. Septimius Severus
Obv. Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right
Rev. Coiled serpent facing, head right



1796 Purim Penny
Cabbage Society

Cabbage Society / Purim (Jewish societyfraternal group, it was known as the

Cabbage Society) token.
The interesting edge device, coarse milling over
"An Asylum For The Oppress'd Of All Nations,"
includes the very same host edge as found on the Washington Liberty
and Security Pennies


1601
Elizabeth I Pattern Groat
Pledge in Silver
Struck piece
Excessively rare


Elizabeth I, Pattern Penny
1601 in copper

THE PLEDGE OF PENNY
Excessiveley Rare
Ex.Brice, Montagu, Murdoch, Manton, Lo
cket



          

  


ROMAN BRASS SESTERTIUS
Britain’s rarest coin and a World rarity
The brass coin stuck to commemerate Hadrian’s visit to
Britain in AD 130-134. A magnificent specimen depicting 
Hadrian addressing his legion in Britain
Currently on Exhibition at the British Museum
case 14 of gallery 49 (Roman Britain)

  
   
    Philip & Mary Half-crown
 1554

        Three specimens exist   
     Art, Rarity & Beauty 
Folkes 1763 say from the cabinet of James West, M.P., (c.1704-1772)
Snelling 1763 also shows it in his plate without comment
J. West  was also an active collector of books


   
 SABENA SESTERTIUS
  Wife of Hadrian
  Emperor Hadrian ruled for 21 years from 
    A.D. 117 until A.D. 138
  Hadrian married Vibia SABENA
  SABENA was the Emperor Trajan's grand-niece 
  
 
1633
Scotland, Charles I Coronation Medal
Charles I, mounted on horse advancing
left, roses, shamrocks and thistles beneath,
date below/ 1633 /;
CAROLVS AVGVSTISS / ET INVICTISS / MAG / BRIT / FRAN / ET / HIB / MONARCHA
All-seeing eye
River Thames scene of Coronation;
AT VRBEM / E / SOL ORBEM REDIENS / SIC REX ILLVMIN
The artist is Nicholas Briot
Silver
  
1651 Half-crown 
COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND
GOD WITH VS 
  'pattern by Simon/Blondeau' 
     Simon made the dies, Blondeau the machinery
    
     
      
       GALBA SESTERTIUS
         68-69 AD
       Roman Empire
        SER GALBA IMP CAES AVG TRP
         Deep green solid patena

     
Charles II
 1662 Crown, rose below bust
   
further details
Pontefract Shiliing
(June 1648-March. 1649)
Charles II 1648 octagonal

beneath the large crown a "furred band" over
HANC : DEVS : DEDIT 1648
CAROL : II : D : G : MAG : B : F : ET : H : REX
rev., castle gateway, PC at sides of central tower
OBS to left, protruding cannon on the right
POST : MORTEM : PATRIS : PRO : FILIO
ex.Bridgewater House
  
further details
ROMAN EMPIRE
Gordian I Africanus (AD238)

Praetorian governor of Lower Britain in 220-222
AE Sestertius (21.60gm)
IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AFR AVG
laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Gordian 
P M TR P COS P P  S—C
Emperor, laureate and togate, standing left, holding branch and parazonium.
RIC 7. BMCRE 4. Cohen 3



      

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 Petition Crown. Exhibition ANA USA
CHARLES II 1663 Silver Crown - Simon's trial coin, his "Petition" 
to King Charles II written in two fine lines around the edge.
Full details in this web site. A coin of intrigue.
40mm diam.  35mm depth at edge but 45mm in the centre. Weight 30gms 

Thomas Simon was one of the World’s greatest engravers.  
Simon at the age of 24 engraved a copy of the Great Seal of England
in 1642 and was paid the incredible sum of £100-

Simon's lifetime’s achievement is 1663 was the Petition Crown 

 
 
 

A book in 1927


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