Lot
282
$4,000.00
EXONUMIA, COINS & PENNY-RELATED ITEMS from the Jim Howell cabinet (169 items), with finely crafted seven drawer display cabinet & drawers in mahogany available with lot. The Collection is a fine celebration of the history of the penny & many related arts. Included are “Dead Man’s Penny” Memorial Plaque to Pte John Rawlings, 10th Btn, Hampshire Regt, killed Gallipoli 21/8/1915, with envelope & King’s telegram; Coins: US packs (2), New York penny (worn VOC Duit) & 1909 VDB Cent; giant Cartwheel Twopence replica (123mm, 615g), West Africa, Kissi pennies (2), 340 & 230mm; Coin art: Group (47) incl silver bowl with inset 1797 Twopence, hallmarked Birmingham 1914, 2.34 oz ASW; steel ONE PENNY coin or token die; penny furniture items etc., snuff boxes (16), lighters, brooches, kettles, candle holder, warming pan, globe, gong, tops (2), miniature Spitfire; Trench art, Militaria & similar items (WW1, WW2, Korea, Falklands) (76), incl Plumb-bobs for battlefield use laying (sighting) artillery, Padre's crosses, hipflask, case marked YPRES, sewing kit, ashtrays, hip flask, model WWI tank, shoe horn, magnifying glass, made of or including pennies or US cents, shell cases, etc; rolled penny rings (3) & Two-Up set, VG - VF. Also includes UK PROOF & UNCIRCULATED SETS from the Jim Howell cabinet (9). Proof sets (8) 1970-2006, incl 1996 7-coin sterling set SPSS09, 2006 13-coin sterling set incl Maundy coins, SPSS26; 1997 & 2000 proof sets with sterling £5; also 1983 standard uncirculated set. Total 5.73 oz ASW. UNC - PROOF; A further section includes MONEY BOXES & RELATED ITEMS (29): most earlier 20th Century antiques, incl NZ & Australia (5), plastic & ceramic containers with penny designs; German-made solid metal money box with human face & "Press the lever lightly" verse; others (2) in human form; USA, boxes as oversized Lincoln & Indian Head cents (2); UK (9), plastic, wood, metal boxes, one with inlaid “bun penny”, two as tin letterboxes with GR & GVIR insignia, smaller of two dented; other money boxes in toilet, jar, clown shapes; long pins with heads made of US coins; also "Penny Collecting" kit with pop-in cards, partially filled, many loose UK pennies in box. Loose coins in worn to circulated grades, boxes range from playworn to almost new, VG - EF. Full listings are available. NZ buyers only, viewing & pick up from Otaki office. VG - UNC
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Lot
283
$1,200.00
ALBUM (90), Royal Mint Trial Die Penny Britannia Moneta 1957, rare, EF; GB play & teaching money, pre-decimal & decimal, also training coins, miniatures by Lauer & others, Model Pennies, c. 1848 (2), centre inserts for Model Pennies (9), Victorian miniature teaching coins (4), GB 1911-53 & NZ Tui cardboard pennies, many near new & scarce (13). F - UNC
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Lot
284
$500.00
COLLECTION with "Artful Penny" theme (95), in quality album & slipcase, themed pages of Masonic coins (13); partly or fully engraved Pennies (12), embellished & enamelled coins (18) incl 1820s silver Shillings (2), host coins dated 1824-1998; gaming & promotional coins (18) incl Canada "Tribute Penny" souvenir 1891; & fantasy coins (12), & notes (4), incl Moon Money, Middle Earth, Pampas Island; page of calibrating pennies (4), & jewellers' weights (7). VG - UNC
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Lot
285
$300.00
REPLICAS (26), Ashmore replicas (22), Pennies, Episcopal, York (2), Wessex, East Anglia, Mercia, Kent, AD 786-870; England, Wales, York 871-975. Others (4), incl WRL replica of Elizabeth 6d, 1562, S2595. Trevor Ashmore produced high-quality copies of ancient English coins in the 1960s-70s & 1990s. His copies were produced in silver & a random sample of these tested positive for .900 fine. For types, coins look VF - EF.
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Lot
286
$300.00
BOOKS (16), General, Coins, Tokens & Exonumia, incl Greek, Roman, Australia, NZ, Anglo-Saxon, UK, noted Price, Coins, An Illustrated Survey 650 BC to the Present Day; Lampard, Catalogue of New Zealand Coins Tokens Bank Notes; Burn, Catalogue of London Traders Tavern & Coffee-House Tokens, 1855, original in new binding; Berk, 100 Greatest Ancient Coins; other titles & offprints; others incl Doty, Seaby, Bell, Renniks; most 1960s-2000s, all in generally good order.
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