Mayfair-based Auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb, who specialise in coins, medals, banknotesand jewellery will be holding an auction of British and World Coins, and HistoricalMedals on Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 10am. The 770-lot sale will feature coins and medalsdating from the first millennium BC to the present day and from as far afield as Thailand andKorea.

Over 100 lots from the Michael Gietzelt Collection ofCoins, tokens and medals of the Isle of Man and theChannel Islands will be offered. A notable example isa very rare and very fine copper pattern penny fromthe Isle of Man, dating from 1723. This penny wasoriginally in H.A. Parsons Collection which sold in 1954 and is estimated at £4,000-5,000.

The sale will also include English Hammered coins fromvarious properties. From the Early Anglo-Saxon Periodis an extremely fine Gold Shilling or Thrymsa that datesfrom circa 645-70 and was found near Horsmonden(Kent) in around 1955. Decorated with two Emperors onone side and winged Victory above two figures on the other, it is estimated at £3,000-3,600.

Among the British milled coins are two interesting coinsfrom private collections. A Proof crown from the reignof George IV (1820-1830) that dates from 1826 isexpected to fetch £10,000-12,000, while an extremelyrare Proof Sovereign from the reign of Queen Victoria(1837-1901), dating from 1871 carries an estimate of £8,000-10,000.

Two World coins that were once in the D.L.F. SealyCollection include from Korea, a very rare 5 Chon,dating from yr 3 of the reign of Yung Hi [1909] which isestimated at £10,000-12,000. While from Thailand: arare and fragile 19th century Pattern 2 Baht from thereign of Rama V (1868-1910). Struck in white metal, this extremely fine example is expectedto fetch £6,000-8,000.

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