Lot 124: A Collection of World Coins including Silver Mexican Five Pesos and UK Royal Commemoratives
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A collection of miscellaneous world coinage and tokens in various metals, including silver, cupro-nickel, copper, and bronze. The group features a significant number of British and Commonwealth issues.
Key pieces include:
– A 1977 UK Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee crown, housed in a blue plastic commemorative case with silver-toned printed text reading “1952 1977 H.M. QUEEN ELIZABETH II SILVER JUBILEE CROWN”.
– A Mexican silver coin, the obverse featuring a portrait of Cuauhtémoc, with text reading “CINCO PESOS 30 GRAMOS LEY 0.900” and dated 1948.
– Multiple large British crowns, including two 1951 Festival of Britain cupro-nickel crowns.
– An assortment of pre-decimal and decimal British coinage, including Victorian pennies and early 20th-century silver-alloy issues.
– A 1974 Isle of Man silver decimal coin.
– Various European coins, including West German 1 and 5 Pfennig pieces, and Dutch Guilders.
– One copper-alloy coin or medallion is mounted as a pendant on a white metal curb-link chain.
– A small bronze-alloy token or medallion displayed in a circular red-rimmed cardboard case.
The collection includes varied denominations such as shillings, sixpences, and international cents. The metals range from .900 fineness silver to standard circulation alloys.
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