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DNW – Coins and Historical Medals, 4/5 May

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

Photo: © DNW

Æthelwulf, Penny

Portrait type, Canterbury mint and moneyer Eanmund.
Estimate: ÂŁ1,500 – ÂŁ2,000
Hammer: ÂŁ3200
Photo: © DNW

Harold I, penny

Long Cross and Fleur-de-lis type, minted in Lincoln, moneyer is Osmund,
Estimate: ÂŁ1,000 – ÂŁ1,200
Hammer: ÂŁ1600
Photo: © DNW

Harold II, penny

PAX type, Lincoln mint, moneyer is Ulf. Only a few specimens are known for this moneyer at Lincoln.
Estimate: ÂŁ1,500 – ÂŁ2,000
Hammer: ÂŁ4800
Photo: © DNW

Edward I, Penny

Long cross penny,minted in London by the moneyer Phelip
Estimate: ÂŁ120 – ÂŁ150
Hammer: ÂŁ260
Photo: © DNW

Edward III, Groat

Pre-Treaty groat, series E, minted in London.
Estimate: ÂŁ100 – ÂŁ120
Hammer: ÂŁ400
Photo: © DNW

Philip and Mary, Shilling

Full titles on obverse and mark of value on the reverse
Estimate: ÂŁ1,200 – ÂŁ1,500
Hammer: ÂŁ3400
Photo: © DNW

James I, sixpence

First coinage sixpence minted in 1603
Estimate: ÂŁ400 – ÂŁ500
Hammer: ÂŁ1200
Photo: © DNW

James I, Halfcrown

Third coinage, mint mark lis. Plume over shield to indicate Welsh mined silver.
Estimate: ÂŁ600 – ÂŁ800
Hammer: ÂŁ1000
Photo: © DNW

Charles I, halfgroat

Aberystwyth mint, mint mark: book.
Estimate: ÂŁ200 – ÂŁ240
Hammer: ÂŁ340
Photo: © DNW

Charles I, sixpence

Newark siege sixpence
Estimate: ÂŁ1,000 – ÂŁ1,200
Hammer: ÂŁ2200
Photo: © DNW

Charles II, sixpence

First issue; mint mark: crown.
Estimate: ÂŁ1,200 – ÂŁ1,500
Hammer: ÂŁ1100
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