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Slightly worked in field, otherwise about extremely fine.
Exceptionally rare.
Obverse
Three crests in a frame with date below dividing mint officials' initials, surrounded in a wreath of 13 other crests.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
CAPITULUM REGNANS SEDE VACANTE.
1781
K. R.
10 EINE FEINE MARCK.
Reverse
Saints Willibald and Walburga and their attributes divided by the eye of god with crest of the bishopric below all on arch, below the city of Eichstätt with mint official's initials on path at bottom right corner.
Script: Latin
Lettering:
HAC SVB TVTELA
TUTA CIVITAS EYSTETT
S.WIL· S.WAL
Œ
42.0mm
27.96g
REF: Cahn 145; Dav. 2210; Sch. 24; Zep. 79
ARABIA, Bostra. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tridrachm or Tetradrachm Struck circa AD 111. Laureate head right, slight drapery / Arabia standing facing, head left, holding branch and bundle of cinnamon sticks(?); camel at side to left.
24.5mm
10.94g
REF: Metcalf, Tell Kalak 2 = SNG ANS 1153; Sydenham, Caesarea 182; BMC 59-61; RPC III 4051
Total weight of piece is 16.2g. Chain is marked 'sterling'. William III Shilling 1696 (REF: S.3497) professionally mounted on sterling silver mount and chain. Legend of mount inscribed "TREASURE FROM 'ASSOCIATION' 1707" (See Photo 4). The chain and mount show a handsome antique patina in VF condition. Coin in gF. Includes a small jewellery box. The coin was likely mounted sometime after the Sotheby's sale* in the late 60s-early 70s. There is no accompanying documentation to guarantee the coin was recovered from Association but the piece shows wear, style, and condition consistent with other verified similar examples online** and my assessment of the piece is that it is authentic.
*See Sotheby's, Treasure Recovered from the Site of HMS Association, London, 14 July 1969. 80.05 grams total, box 85 x 65mm. Recovered from HMS Association shipwreck, sank Gilstone Rock, Isles of Scilly, 1707; pendant mount added later.
**See TimeLine Auctions February 2017 Antiquities & Coins Auction Lot 1238
This piece is ex. Noonans Mayfair, London.
HMS Association was a 90-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched at Portsmouth Dockyard in 1697. She served with distinction at the capture of Gibraltar, and was lost in 1707 by grounding on the Isles of Scilly in the greatest maritime disaster of the age. The wreck is a Protected Wreck managed by Historic England. The wreck site was rediscovered in 1964 by the Naval Air Command Sub Aqua Club. Members of the club recovered gold coins, a bronze cannon and many other artefacts from the Association site.
More than 2,000 coins and other artefacts recovered from the wreck site were auctioned by Sotheby’s in July 1969.
Obverse
Crowned bust of King Charles II left, mark of value behind head, within inner beaded circle, legend around.
Note: crown mintmark on both sides
Script: Latin
Lettering: CAROLVS·II·D·G·MAG·BRI·FRA·ET·HIB·REX
Translation: Charles the Second by the Grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland
Reverse
Quartered shield of arms over short cross fourchee within inner beaded circle, legend around.
Script: Latin
Lettering: [mm]·CHRISTO·AVSPICE·REGNO·
Translation: I reign under the auspices of Christ
0.95g
12mm
REF: S. 3326
Henry VIII (1509-1547), Second coinage, Groat, mm. rose, bust D, saltires in forks
nVF - Several scuffs
2.61g
REF: S.2337E
BITHYNIA. Herakleia Pontika. EL Hekte (Circa 530-520 BC).
Obv: Head of Herakles left, wearing lion skin.
Rev: Quadripartite incuse square.
Very fine
2.53 g.
10 mm.
REF: W. Fischer-Bossert, Elektronhekten, group 1; SNG Kayhan 737-8 (Erythrai); SNG von Aulock 1942 (Erythrai).
Richard II, Halfpenny, London, double saltire stops
✠ RICARD REX ANGL / CIVITAS LONDON
nVF - flat in parts
0.52g
9mm
REF: S.1699
Clodius Albinus Denarius. AD 193-195. D CLOD SEPT ALBIN CAES, bare head right / MINER PACIF COS II, Minerva standing left, holding olive branch and shield on ground, spear resting against her left arm.
3.45g.
18.3 mm.
REF: RIC 7a
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