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| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 55 | Auction date: 14 May 2026 |
| Lot number: 793 Price realized: 300 USD (Approx. 257 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: INDIA: Republic, 10 tola silver bar (116.7g), ND (= 3.75 oz) rectangular, marked .999 fine, issued by Manilal Chimanlal & Co., Bombay, with map of India which shows both Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of India! // blank reverse, XF-AU. Estimate: 300-350 USD |  |
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| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 55 | Auction date: 14 May 2026 |
| Lot number: 791 Price realized: 750 USD (Approx. 642 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: INDIA: Republic, 25 tola silver bar (291.7g), ND (= 9.38 oz) rectangular, marked .999 fine, issued by Manilal Chimanlal & Co., Bombay, with map of India which shows both Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of India! // the Gateway of India, Bombay; several dings on all sides, not surprising for so heavy a bar, XF-AU. Estimate: 700-800 USD |  |
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| Stephen Album Rare Coins > Auction 55 | Auction date: 14 May 2026 |
| Lot number: 2718 Price realized: 280 USD (Approx. 240 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: INDIA: Republic, 5 tola silver bar (58.3g), ND (= 1.87 oz) rectangular, marked .999 fine, issued by Manilal Chimanlal & Co., Bombay, with map of India which shows both Pakistan and Bangladesh as part of India! // the Gateway of India, Bombay, XF-AU. Estimate: 150-200 USD |  |
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| Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 22 | Auction date: 3 June 2026 |
| Lot number: 20 Price realized: 18,000 GBP (Approx. 24,187 USD / 20,827 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: James I (1603-1625), fine gold Rose Ryal of Thirty Shillings, second coinage (1604-1619), King in robes seated facing on throne within tressure, holding orb and sceptre, portcullis below, initial mark tower (1612-13) both sides, struck over mullet over coronet on obverse, IACOBVS. D; G; MAG; BRIT FRAN; ET. HIBER; REX., pellet and contraction mark stops, rev. quartered shield upon large rose, within beaded circle, .A. DNO. FACTVM. EST. ISTVD. ET. EST. MIRAB. IN. OCV'. NRIS., pellet stops, inverted N in IN, 13.51g (Schneider 10; Stewartby dies C/j; N 2079; S.2613). Toned, struck from lightly rusted dies, a little off-centre on reverse, with one light crease across centre, a little weak on higher points and around periphery, obverse detail a little soft as this die survived in use through three mint marks, with an excellent portrait of the King especially at his face, a bold very fine and a rarer mint mark. The abbreviated Latin legends translate as on the obverse James by the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland and on the reverse as This is the Lord's doing and it is marvellous in our eyes a Psalm from the Bible, which should read in full A Domino Factum Est Istud Et Est Mirabile In Oculis Nostris.Such large gold coins were struck in 23 and a third carat fine gold.For further reference see Rose Ryals of James I 1605-17, by Lord Stewartby, British Numismatic Journal, Volume 71, 2001, pages 87-90.The total gold output of fine gold for this mint mark of tower from 1st April 1612 until 31st March 1613 totalled only £3,094 which would also include fine gold Angels. Even if the mintage was two thirds of the face value in Rose Ryals between these two denominations (the Angel being more ceremonial) the figures of mintage are incredibly low with perhaps just over 1,350 Rose Ryals issued of this mint mark. Provenance: Ex Mrs E. M. H. Norweb, English Collection part 3, Spink Coin Auction 56, 19th November 1986, lot 942. Ex A. H. Baldwin, Fixed Price List, Summer 2010, BH022.Ex A. H. Baldwin, purchased 17th May 2013.A principal metals analysis breakdown has been determined for this coin at a surface depth of up to 10 microns using a Niton DXL machine and shows this coin at its testing level to be approximately: 98.3% gold, 0.4% silver, 0.1% copper. This equates to 23.83 carats of gold.James I of England was also James VI of Scotland the son of Mary Queen of Scots, born 19th June 1566 and became the infant King of that realm on 24th July 1567 aged 1, when Mary was forced to abdicate the throne to him for her conduct in marrying one of the alleged conspirators in the murder of her previous husband Henry Darnley. James enjoyed the longest reign of any Scottish monarch at 57 years and 246 days and became successor to the English throne upon the death of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I the last Tudor Queen, though James was the great great Grandson of King Henry VII. James Stewart the Early of Moray and illegitimate half-brother of Mary Queen of Scots became regent for his younger years. During this early phase of his Scottish reign, the largest hammered gold coin ever issued emerged sated either 1575 or 1576 the Twenty Pound piece featuring a portrait of the boy King was no doubt an inspiration later to his son Charles for the Triple Unite issued at Oxford. James married Anne of Denmark at first by proxy in Copenhagen in August 1589 whereupon she sailed for England but was forced by storms to land in Norway. James with a retinue of 300 sailed to Norway to fetch her where they married at the Bishop's Palace in Oslo on 23rd November 1589 not returning to Scotland until 1st March 1590. They went on to have seven children only three who survived to adulthood, Henry Prince of Wales being the eldest who unfortunately pre-deceased his Father in 1612 from typhoid aged 18; Elizabeth who later would be Queen of Bohemia and Charles who would later be King. James finally united the kingdoms of Scotland and England from the death of Elizabeth I on 24th March 1603 and set off from Scotland on 5th April for London promising to return to Scotland every three years, which he never actually did and went back on only one occasion. He was lavishly treated on his progress to the capital and did not arrive until 7th May 1603, and was coronated on 25th July 1603 which suffered a lack of attendance by the public on account of an outbreak of the plague. His reign was known for the instigation of witch hunts and James wrote a book Daemonolgie in 1597 which gave his own experiences of the subject. The golden phase of Elizabethan literature continued into his reign and a new translation of the Bible was approved in 1604 and completed in 1611. James also suffered from several plots against him, the Bye plot, the Main plot and most famously the Gunpowder plot of July 1605, in an attempt to blow up Parliament, Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding multiple kegs of gunpowder in basement rooms and he and co-conspirators convicted, tortured and some executed. In April 1604 James claimed to be King of Great Britain and though at first this did not have any legal standing or was allowed to appear in official documents the titles were reflected in the coinage. By 1625 James was falling weaker and sick from arthritis and gout he died from dysentery on 27th March 1625 with a funeral on 7th May of that year. Starting price: 20000 GBP |  |
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| Sovereign Rarities Ltd > Auction 22 | Auction date: 3 June 2026 |
| Lot number: 26 Price realized: 16,500 GBP (Approx. 22,171 USD / 19,092 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: George II (1727-60), gold Five Guineas, 1729 E.I.C. initials of the East India Company below young laureate head left, GEORGIVS.II. DEI.GRATIA, rev. crowned quartered shield of arms, date either side of crown, M.B.FE. ET. H. REX. F.D. B.ET. L. D. S. R. I. A. T ET. E. edge inscribed in raised letter and dated, +DECVS. ET. TVTAMEN ANNO. REGNI. TERTIO, inverted N's in ANNO, 41.84g (Schneider 556; Schneider dies 2/2; King 161-2; GH 82; Bull EGC 553; MCE 279; S.3664). Toned with wear to high points of hair, little scratch scuff on cheek with other little surface marks, nicks on truncation, lightly flecked striations on reverse by lis, some unevenness to edge from collar slippage with the inscription, retaining an overall attractive lustre, some pink to red hue on reverse, otherwise very fine / extremely fine. The Latin legends translate as on obverse George II by the Grace of God and continues on to the reverse as King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, Duke of Brunswick and Luneberg, High Treasurer and Elector of the Holy Roman Empire.Provenance:With an old ticket written in French describing this coin, probably 1960s or earlier.Ex Spink & Son Ltd, purchased 10th September 2013.We note the official mint record of gold output for 1729 totals zero production, but the following year of 1730 likely contains the 1729 dated coins at a total of £91,628 worth of Five Guineas and Half Guineas including the East India Company issue dated 1729 and Guineas and Half-Guineas dated 1730.The East India Company provided quantities of gold bullion from their trading activities to the Royal Mint to strike coinage with their provenance mark E.I.C. at various times in the reign of King George II, probably as they were also responsible for taking great quantities of silver out of the country for export. The edges of these spectacular gold coins also carry an inscriptions as an ornament and a safeguard against the old practice of clipping with a further statement that this coin was issued in the third year of the King's reign. However the Mint's official output figures show no gold produced in the calendar year of 1729 and Woodhead notes in the output tables in Schneider that the EIC gold coinage was not included the official figures until 1731 when the gold output was £305,768 which is on the smaller side of gold outputs for the reign. Nevertheless, the Samuel King Survey co-authored by this cataloguer published in May 2005 showed that 189 examples of these coins were traded in a 45 year period on the British coin market 1960-2005, the most prolific of this reign. Perhaps this is because more of the EIC type Five Guineas were saved from circulation especially if the company originally gave such coins out to backers and favoured persons as gifts to cherish rather than use and spend. There is a record of Queen Caroline for instance receiving East India Company gold. The new East India Company headquarters opened in Leadenhall Street London in this year. 1729 is the only year a Five Guinea is marked E.I.C. which is the first year of EIC gold, and there was also a Guinea and Half-Guinea so marked this year. The E.I.C. marked coinage continues for only a ten-year period of dating and only for five dates in the period, 1729, 1730, 1731, 1732 and finally 1739. For 1730 there seems only to be an issue of Half-Guineas, the other later years are Guinea and Half-Guinea only. All are rare to extremely rare to find today.A principal metals analysis breakdown has been determined for this coin at a surface depth of up to 10 microns using a Niton DXL machine and shows this coin at its testing level to be approximately: 92.9% gold, 4.7% silver, 2.2% copper,0.1% Iron. This equates to 22 carat gold Starting price: 16000 GBP |  |
