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DNW – Coins and Historical Medals, 4/5 May

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DNW – Coins and Historical Medals, 4/5 May

DNW are held an auction on 4/5 May of coins and historical medals . The full catalogue can be found here.

There is a buyer’s premium of  24% (plus VAT) on the hammer price.

Samuel Birchall

The auction has 148 coins from a private collection made over 200 years ago by Samuel Birchall. The collection is of British hammered silver coins from the mid 9th century to the early 1660s. 

Samuel was born in 1761 and moved to Leeds in 1788 where hegovernors of Ackworth School and of the Infirmary. Samuel Birchall, ardent naturalist and antiquarian, is best known among present-day numismatists for his A Descriptive List of the Provincial Copper Coins or Tokens issued between the Years 1786 and 1796. Apart from tokens, Samuel Birchall formed valuable collections of British gold and silver coins, stuffed animals.

Selected lots from Samuel Birchall's collection

Lot 1
Lot 1, Æthelwulf Penny
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Æthelwulf, Penny

Portrait type, Canterbury mint and moneyer Eanmund.
Estimate: £1,500 – £2,000
Hammer: £3200
Lot 9
Lot 9, Harold I, penny
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Harold I, penny

Long Cross and Fleur-de-lis type, minted in Lincoln, moneyer is Osmund,
Estimate: £1,000 – £1,200
Hammer: £1600
Lot 12
Lot 12, Harold II, Penny
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Harold II, penny

PAX type, Lincoln mint, moneyer is Ulf. Only a few specimens are known for this moneyer at Lincoln.
Estimate: £1,500 – £2,000
Hammer: £4800
Lot 25
Lot 25, Edward I, Penny
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Edward I, Penny

Long cross penny,minted in London by the moneyer Phelip
Estimate: £120 – £150
Hammer: £260
Lot 32
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Edward III, Groat

Pre-Treaty groat, series E, minted in London.
Estimate: £100 – £120
Hammer: £400
Lot 68
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Philip and Mary, Shilling

Full titles on obverse and mark of value on the reverse
Estimate: £1,200 – £1,500
Hammer: £3400
Lot 86
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James I, sixpence

First coinage sixpence minted in 1603
Estimate: £400 – £500
Hammer: £1200
Lot 91
Lot 91, James I, Halfcrown
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James I, Halfcrown

Third coinage, mint mark lis. Plume over shield to indicate Welsh mined silver.
Estimate: £600 – £800
Hammer: £1000
Lot 121
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Charles I, halfgroat

Aberystwyth mint, mint mark: book.
Estimate: £200 – £240
Hammer: £340
Lot 135
Lot 135, Charles I, sixpence
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Charles I, sixpence

Newark siege sixpence
Estimate: £1,000 – £1,200
Hammer: £2200
Lot 145
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Charles II, sixpence

First issue; mint mark: crown.
Estimate: £1,200 – £1,500
Hammer: £1100
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