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Japan. Tokugawa Shogunate. Bunkyu Eiho (Shin Bun = Regular script).Hartill 5.15; Jones (2007) 346; KM C 6; Zeno # 332257
4 mon (cast copper alloy; made from old 1 mon coins); cast from March 1863 (Bunkyu 3) to 1868 at the Asakusa mint (near Edo); written by Ogasawara Osayuki, a prominent official. 3.86 g., 26.94 mm. max., 0°
Obv.: 文久永寶 Bun Kyu Ei Ho (=Eternal Treasure of the Bunkyu Era); regular script.
Rev.: Eleven nami/waves
Hartill rarity VC; In total, 891,515,631 Bunkyu Eiho of all varieties were cast.StkpApr 22, 2024
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Japan. Tokugawa Shogunate. Bunkyu Eiho (So Bun = Cursive script).Hartill 5.17; Jones (2007) 355; KM C 6a; Zeno # 332046
4 mon (cast copper alloy; made from old 1 mon coins); cast from March 1863 (Bunkyu 3) to 1868 at the Asakusa mint (near Edo) and Kosuge mint; written by Court Councillor Itakura Katsuyoshi; 3.86 g., 26.87 mm., 0°
Obv.: 文久永寶 Bun Kyu Ei Ho (=Eternal Treasure of the Bunkyu Era); cursive script, wide rim around hole
Rev.: Eleven nami/waves
Hartill rarity VC; In total, 891,515,631 bunkyu Eiho of all varieties were cast.StkpApr 19, 2024
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Japan. Tokugawa Shogunate. Bunkyu Eiho (Gyoku Ho aka Ryaku Ho = Abbreviated Ho).Hartill 5.20 var.; Jones (2007) 351; KM C 6b; Zeno # 331943
4 mon (cast copper alloy; made from old 1 mon coins); cast from March 1863 (Bunkyu 3) to 1868 at the Asakusa mint (near Edo) and Kosuge mint; written by Matsudaira Yoshinga, one of the Four Wise Lords of the period; 3.74 g., 26.96 mm., 0°
Obv.: 文久永寶 Bun Kyu Ei Ho (=Eternal Treasure of the Bunkyu Era); cursive script, the bottom components of ho 寶 are simplified 宝, medium rim around hole
Rev.: Eleven nami/waves
Hartill rarity VC; In total, 891,515,631 bunkyu Eiho of all varieties were cast.StkpApr 17, 2024
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Australia, Tasmania: Lewis AbrahamsAndrews 1, Renniks 1, KM Tn7
Penny token , copper; dated 1855 and minted by Heaton and Sons of Birmingham, England. 34.0 mm., 0°
Obv.: LEWIS ABRAHAMS / DRAPER / LIVERPOOL STREET / HOBART TOWN
Rev.: Emu facing right and kangaroo facing left, TASMANIA above and 1855 BELOW
Although there is no listing in the Archives Office of Tasmania Pioneer's Database for a Lewis Abrahams, records show that he occupied a house and garden at 19 Bathurst Street in Hobart Town in 1835, and was then in partnership with a certain H.C. Davis in a shop at 102 Liverpool Street. This token indicates that in 1855 he was operating without Davis as a draper on Liverpool Street. It appears that Davis withdrew from the partnership and Abrahams carried on alone.
Abrahams is listed as a contributor to the fund for the construction of the Hobart Synagogue in 1844-1845, and as a “seatholder” (financial member) of the Hobart Hebrew Congregation for some time during the period 1852-1877. He was married in the Hobart Synagogue in December 1855. He died in Hobart in 1860.
Renniks rarity R1 (most frequently seen)StkpApr 04, 2024
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Isle of Mancf. Mackay 39; cf. SCBC 7408; cf. KM 5.1
AE penny; Contemporary counterfeit of Second Derby Coinage, of which the official coinage was issued by James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1702-1736), and struck at either London or Bristol by William Wood’s successors. 7.01 g., 26.99 mm. max., 180°
Obv: SANS • CHANGER [without changing], Stanley family crest of eagle over child in wicker basket, above the cap of maintenance, 1733 below.
Rev: QUOCUNQUE • IECERIS • STABIT [whithersoever you throw it, it will stand] triskeles in center, I-D-J [Iacobus Darbiensis 1 Penny] between legs.
The Second Derby Coinage is comprised of two distinct issues, with the prototype for this contemporary counterfeit coin coming from the first issue. There were 72,000 minted.StkpMar 30, 2024
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Denmark. Christian VII (1766-1808). Altona Type 7F, reverse/obverse die combination A775/AO774 Altona Type 7F, reverse/obverse die combination A775/AO774 (common = 50-100 coins); Hede 37, Schou 9-21, Sieg 2, Pedersen __, KM 616.1
1 Skilling, copper (11.693 g.). Altona mint (in Royal Holstein-Schleswig); immobilized date 1771 but minted from mid-1784 to July 1785. Dies made by Johan Henrik Wolff.
11.65 g., 30.48 mm. max., 0°
Obv.: Crowned double C7 monogram.
Rev.: 1 flanked by rosettes / SKILLING / DANSKE / K • M • / 1771 • / rosette, in six lines.
Of the 54,757,104 1771-dated 1 skilling coins minted over a period of 16 years (1771-1786), an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 exist. There are 987 known die combinations. They were minted at three mints. Altona Type 7 comprises 22.1% of the total.StkpMar 24, 2024
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Isle of ManMackay 55; Pridmore 16; KM 9
AE/copper penny; Engraved by Lewis Pingo and struck at the Royal Mint, London. 15.92 g., 34.31 mm. max., 180°
Obv: GEORGIVS III DEI GRATIA •, Laureate bust of George III facing right, 1786 below.
Rev: QUOCUNQUE IECERIS • STABIT [whithersoever you throw it, it will stand] triskeles in center.
Engrailed/milled edge.
The Isle of Man was granted to the Stanley family in perpetuity by the English King Henry IV. It was inherited by the Duke of Atholl in 1736 but became part of the United Kingdom on June 21, 1765 when it was purchased back from the Atholl family by the Act of Revestment for 70,000 pounds and an annuity of 2,000 pounds. The Act brought the Island under UK customs service control specifically to prevent the Island from being used for smuggling. The 1786 copper coins bearing the effigy of King George III first were the first issue of coins for the Island under British rule. This was eleven years before copper pence were circulated on the mainland.StkpMar 23, 2024
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Isle of ManMackay 47; Pridmore 29; KM 3a
AE/copper ½ penny; Second Derby Coinage, issued by James Stanley, 10th Earl of Derby (1702-1736), and struck at Castleton by Amos Topping and Charles Dyall of London between January 15, 1733 and March 23, 1734. 5.18 g., 24.04 mm. max., 180°
Obv: SANS • CHANGER [without changing], Stanley family crest of eagle over child in wicker basket, above the cap of maintenance, 1733 below.
Rev: QUOCUNQUE • IECERIS • STABIT [whithersoever you throw it, it will stand] triskeles in center, I-D-½ [Iacobus Darbiensis 1/2 Penny] between legs.
The Second Derby Coinage is comprised of two distinct issues, with this coin coming from the second issue. The metal came from some old brass cannons at Castle Rushen ans is usually referred to as Bath metal. It is a low-grade tin-bronze (copper 97.6; tin 2.2; iron .04; traces of zinc). There were 60,000 minted.StkpMar 03, 2024
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Australia, Tasmania, New Town: Reuben JosephsAndrews 310, Renniks 310, KM Tn140
½ penny token , copper; dated 1855 and minted by Heaton and Sons of Birmingham, England per Renniks or W.J. Taylor of London, England per Museums Victoria Collection website (which states that the corresponding penny token was minted by Heaton and Sons). 28.0 mm., 0°
Obv.: Tollgate with associated building, NEW TOWN TOLLGATE / * R. JOSEPHS *,
Rev.: Blindfolded personification of Justice seated holding scale in right hand and inverted overflowing cornucopia in left hand, wine barrel behind her, three-masted sailing ship on the horizon to the left, VAN DIEMAN’S LAND above and 1855 below
Reuben Josephs (1790-1862) was a tailor who sold old clothes from a warehouse in London until 1827, when he was convicted of receiving stolen goods, sentenced to fourteen years transportation and sent to Van Diemen’s Land (later renamed Tasmania). His wife emigrated to Tasmania and purchased two blocks of land at New Norfolk. Reuben was assigned to be her servant, and they started a business. He was granted a ticket of leave in 1833, a conditional pardon in 1836, and his certificate of freedom in 1841. After his wife died in 1844, he moved to Liverpool Street in Hobart. In 1852 he won the tender to operate the New Town toll gate for three years. He married Rachel Levien in Hobart in 1856.
In documents of the Hobart Hebrew Congregation, Reuben Josephs was listed as a contributor to the fund for the construction of the Hobart Synagogue, and as a “seatholder” (financial member) of the Congregation starting in 1852. He was buried in the Jewish section of the Old Hobart Cemetery.
Renniks rarity R1 (most frequently seen)StkpDec 21, 2023
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Australia, Tasmania: Lewis AbrahamsAndrews 2, Renniks 2, Grey 2, KM Tn6
½ penny token , copper; dated 1855 and minted by Heaton and Sons of Birmingham, England. 27.5 mm., 0°
Obv.: LEWIS ABRAHAMS / DRAPER / LIVERPOOL STREET / HOBART TOWN
Rev.: Emu facing right and kangaroo facing left, TASMANIA above and 1855 BELOW
Although there is no listing in the Archives Office of Tasmania Pioneer's Database for a Lewis Abrahams, records show that he occupied a house and garden at 19 Bathurst Street in Hobart Town in 1835, and was then in partnership with a certain H.C. Davis in a shop at 102 Liverpool Street. This token indicates that in 1855 he was operating without Davis as a draper on Liverpool Street. It appears that Davis withdrew from the partnership and Abrahams carried on alone.
Abrahams is listed as a contributor to the fund for the construction of the Hobart Synagogue in 1844-1845, and as a “seatholder” (financial member) of the Hobart Hebrew Congregation for some time during the period 1852-1877. He was married in the Hobart Synagogue in December 1855. He died in Hobart in 1860.
Renniks rarity R1 (most frequently seen)StkpDec 02, 2023
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Denmark/Faroe Islands (British Occupation). Christian X (1912-1947)Hede 30C, Sieg Faroe Islands 1, KM Faroe Islands 1
1 øre bronze (holed; 1.9 g., 16 mm., 0°). Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom, dated 1941 (100,000 struck).
Obv.: KONGE AF – DANMARK, Crown ABOVE double C monogram, X between.
Rev.: DANMARK / 1941 / 1 ØRE, ornament to sides.
The 1 øre coins minted in London for circulation in the Faroe Islands during the German occupation of Denmark are identical to those minted in Copenhagen from 1926-1940 except that there is no mint mark or mint master initials.StkpDec 02, 2023
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Denmark/Faroe Islands (British Occupation). Christian X (1912-1947)Hede 29C, Sieg Faroe Islands 1, KM Faroe Islands 2
2 øre bronze (holed; 3.8 g., 21.1 mm., 0°). Royal Mint (Tower Hill), London, United Kingdom, dated 1941 (100,000 struck).
Obv.: KONGE AF – DANMARK, Crown ABOVE double C monogram, X between.
Rev.: DANMARK / 1941 / 2 ØRE, ornament to sides.
The 2 øre coins minted in London for circulation in the Faroe Islands during the German occupation of Denmark are identical to those minted in Copenhagen from 1926-1940 except that there is no mint mark or mint master initials.StkpDec 02, 2023
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Huszár 586, Pohl 124-55, Unger 456hh, Réthy II 129 Hungary. Sigismund (Zsigmond in Hun.) of Luxemburg (1387-1437; Holy Roman Emperor 1433-1437). Billon quarting, 13 mm.
Obv: Patriarchal cross, S–P (privy mark) in central fields.
Rev: Crown
The type was struck in 1430-1437 (per Pohl, Huszár & Unger). This privy mark was struck in Segesvár, Transylvania (now SighiÈ™oara, Romania) (per Pohl).
Huszár/Pohl rarity rating 3. This specimen is of a better strike than many.
“Owing to inner strife and disordered general conditions, the coins [of this period] were usually minted with extremely low precious metal content; moreover, poor mintages were often struck with negligently engraved dies. As a result of the hurried, superficial minting, it was sometimes doubtful whether a faulty coin had been issued officially, or was a forgery” (Huszár 1963, at 15).
The quarting (also known as the fryling and as a moneta minor) was originally worth a quarter of a denar, but it “soon fell victim to the manipulations of the treasury. Its fineness decreased at such a rate that soon it contained almost nothing but copper. The result was economic anarchy. Trust in these silver coins was irreparably damaged, and, although the government officially devalued the quarting several times, its market value fell even more drastically. In the last years of Sigismund’s reign, 6,000 to 8,000 quartings were equivalent to one florin instead of the original 400” (Engel, 223-224).Stkp
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Augustus (Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus) (27 B.C. – 14 A.D.) and Tiberius (Tiberius Julius Caesar) (14-37 A.D.)Howgego 602, Martini-Pangerl 58, on a RIC I (Augustus) ___
Countermark of Tiberius often encountered on coins found in the Moesia region (Bulgaria), on an AE as (25 mm) issued by Augustus in the name of a moneyer. Rome mint.
Obv: [illegible], bare head of Augustus, right.
Rev: [illegible], S—C in field, TI•C•A countermark within a rectangular incuse.
From an uncleaned coin lot.Stkp
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Schjöth 1489, Hartill 5.147 Type A2 (QC) & 22.447 Type A2 (CCC), KM 440.1Jiaqing (1796-1820)
1 cash (cast brass), 1799 [?] – 1802 [?], Board of Revenue mint (in Beijing), west branch, 23 mm.
Obv: Jiaqing tongbao.
Rev: Boo chiowan.
Type A is comprised of coins with a closed bei. Type A2 is comprised of coins that are slightly smaller than Type A1 coins, and with a small ji in jia. The west branch of the mint cast coins with closed head, one dot tong.
Hartill rarity 11 (QC) & 16 (CCC)Stkp
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