Bronze Medal, Resignation of Sir Robert Walpole 1742, obv. 'I AM KICKD OUT OF DOORS' above Walpole seated left on a balcony & holding a scroll dated IAN. 18 1742, his left arm is leaning on a bag of coins (Walpole was accused of bribery & corruption), rev. 'NO SCREEN' above a walled gateway surmounted by a head on the end of a pole (a pun on his name), 37mm, a few marks & light scratches o/wise GFine to AVF, scarce £80 - 120
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A Coin Cabinet, grey plastic, 11 ½" x 11 ½" x 5 ½" (29cm x 29cm x 14cm), containing 10 x trays with spaces for 692 coins, all denominations farthings to crowns, spaces lined with red velveteen, excellent condition £30 - 50
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BofE, 2 x White £5: (1) Beale, London July 1 1950, rev. slight discolouration along a couple of very light folds, minor wrinkling AEF & (2) Beale, London Sept 3 1951, vertical centre crease, tiny edge tears & minute pinholes, light corner folds & signs of handling Fine £70 - 100
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A Collection of Scottish Banknotes comprising: RBS: £5 30th April 1956, edge tears, creases, wrinkling & badly stained Good, 2 x £1: 1st June 1963 & 1st May 1965, RBS Ltd 3 x consecutively numbered £1 1 May 1979 (B/75); RBS plc £10 24 Feb 1993 (C/17); Bank of Scotland £1 1st June 1966, 3 x consecutively numbered £1 15th Oct 1979 & 2 x £5: 7 Oct 1963 & 4th Jan 1995; British Linen Bank 3 x £1: 22nd April 1935 creases, wrinkling VG, 13th June 1967 & 29th Feb 1968 edge tears, creases VG; Clydesdale Bank Ltd £1 1st Sept 1969, Clydesdale Bank PLC £20 3rd Sept 1992 Fine & £1 9th Nov 1988; National Commercial Bank of Scotland Limited £5 2nd Jan 1963 VG & £1 16th Sept 1969; The Commercial Bank of Scotland Ltd £1 2nd Jan 1954; The National Bank of Scotland Limited £5 1st Nov 1957 several folds/creases; generally AVF to UNC unless o/wise graded £100 - 150
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A Collection of Irish Banknotes comprising: Central Bank of Ireland: 5 x 'Lady Lavery' notes: 2 x 10 shillings 6.6.68, one with vertical centre crease; 2 x £1: 2.9.59 & 30.9.76 & £5 23.5.72 light vertical centre crease; Northern Bank Limited: 2 x £1: 1st January 1940 (N-I/H) tiny tear in centre of top edge, folds & creases o/wise Fine & 1 August 1978; Bank of Ireland: 2 x £1 (prefix H, O'Neill); Provincial Bank of Ireland Limited £1 1st Jan 1979 (pref. PN) & Ulster Bank Limited £10 1st Dec 1990 (pref. G) folds/creases AVF, together with Isle of Man Government: 10 shillings (pref. A, Garvey), £1 (pref. E, John Paul), £5 (pref.G, Cashen), £10 (pref. F, Cashen) light creases/wrinkles GVF, £20 (pref. B, Cashen) & 50p (pref. C, Dawson); Guernsey: 2 x £1 (pref. B, Bull & pref. M, Trestain), 2 x £5 (pref. C, 1980 issue, Bull & pref. A, Trestain) & £10 (pref. A, Trestain) & Jersey: 10 shillings (pref. B, Padgham), 2 x £1 (pref. CB, Clennett & pref. LC, Baird) & £5 (pref. CC, Baird); generally EF to UNC unless o/wise graded £150 - 200
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An Album Containing a Collection of BofE Banknotes comprising: 2 x £50: Gill (CO1) very minor handling marks o/wise EF & Kentfield (B82, 'Historical') AUNC; 5 x £10: Hollom (A17), Page (B14 'Portrait'), Page (A20 'Pictorial') & 2 x Kentfield (KN01 & AO1) all AUNC to UNC; 11 x £5: 3 x O'Brien (A40 stains & writing in ink on rev. Fine, A41 Fine & H96), 2 x Hollom (AO7 & K26), Fforde (X59), Page (CR80 'Pictorial') VF, Somerset (JW19), 2 x Gill (RH25 & AO8) & Kentfield (AAO1) all EF to GEF unless o/wise graded; 20 x £1 including Mahon (E95) creases, ingrained dirt along crease lines AFine & Catterns (H89) creases, corner folds & ingrained dirt VG, Peppiatt (2 x blue & 1 x green), Beale, O'Brien (3 x Britannia & 1 x Portrait), Hollom, Fforde, Page & Somerset & 13 x 10 shillings Peppiatt (1 x brown & 3 x mauve), Beale, Hollom, O'Brien & Fforde; various grades, generally Fine to UNC £300 - 400
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A Large Collection of 1000+ Foreign Banknotes - Canada, Australia, New Zealand & numerous other British Commonwealth & Colonial, Europe, Far East, Middle East, various African countries, North & South America, China, Japan etc; approximately 850 notes housed in 5 albums, remainder loose; mostly post WWII, various grades £40 - 60
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6 x Treasury Notes: £1 Bradbury 3rd issue (E/52), several rust-coloured stains around edge & along fold lines on rev; 3 x £1 Warren Fisher 1st issue (U/48, U/100 & X/38), all with numerous creases, folds, wrinkling & ingrained dirt; £1 Warren Fisher 2nd issue (K1/58) folds & creases, tiny tears on right edge; 10 shillings Bradbury 2nd issue (K1/39), creases, corner folds, pin holes & paper breaks along crease lines, ingrained dirt, together with 2 x 19th century £5 notes: Durham Bank 1882 & Stockton on Tees Bank 1888, 'Jonathan Backhouse & Co' both cut cancelled, numerous creases, pinholes, paper breaks & dirt/handling marks; generally AVG to GFine(K1/58) £80 - 120
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BofE, 3 x Consecutively Numbered £50 Notes, Somerset, series 'D' Pictorial issue (1981), B08 887740-887742, barely discernible wrinkle along parts of bottom edge o/wise UNC £180 - 220
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BofE, 6 x £10 Notes comprising: 5 x consecutively numbered Fforde A82 008557 - 008561 all with light vertical centre fold GEF & 1 x Hollom (A25) faint small crease near left edge o/wise UNC £80 - 120
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BofE, 2 x White £5: (1) Peppiatt (H67), London March 15 1945, vertical & horizontal creases, corner flicks, ingrained dirt o/wise AFine & (2) Beale (O27) London Aug 27 1949, folds/creases, small edge tears, surface wrinkling & ingrained dirt VG £30 - 40
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A Collection of BofE Banknotes comprising: 10 x 10 shillings: Peppiatt mauve (K82D) creases, ingrained dirt, small stains Fine, Beale (S98Z), 2 x O'Brien Britannia (E49Y creases & ingrained dirt Fine & B02Z), 2 x Hollom (N13 creases, corner flicks AFine & 09A) & 4 x FForde (C93N, D38N, 95S & C39N); 11 x £1: Catterns (RO4) rust stains, hole along crease line, small edge tear, creases & ingrained dirt VG, Peppiatt green (26B) rust stains, creases Fine, Peppiatt blue (B79E) Fine, Beale (X44C) creases, corner flicks, ingrained dirt AFine, 2 x O'Brien Britannia (T47K) & Portrait (J14), Fforde (S42D), Page (Z53H) & 3 x Somerset (DXO1) & a consecutively numbered pair (CZ28); 4 x £5: O'Brien Series 'B' (H65), Hollom (A12), Fforde (UO5) & Page (15H, overlaps with Fforde); 3 x £10: Page portrait (B43), Gill (HU75) & Kentfield Series 'E' (A21); 1 x £20 Somerset (63J); generally VF to EF or+ unless o/wise graded £80 - 120
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A Collection of 38 x Sterling Silver Medals commemorating the European Football Championships 1996; common obv. crest of the Royal Mint, rev. various players, venues, history of the Championship etc; all 38mm & 31.1g except 2 x 'Wembley Stadium' (34mm, 15g) & 2 x 'Bobby Charlton' (30mm, 10g), set includes 14 x duplicates, together with 21 x silver proof medals 'The World Cup Collection' issued by various countries to commemorate the World Cup 1994, all silver (including 8 x .999 & 8 x .925) except USA half dollar (clad), majority 31.4g, 38-39mm, with certs, in capsules, in 2 x Westminster cases £250 - 300
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3 x Commemorative Silver Medals comprising: (1) Silver Jubilee 1977 by L Durbin, rev. the new hybrid tea rose, 57mm, 76.4g, limited edition of 5000 (this medal No. 2930), uneven toning, with cert, in CofI, UNC; (2) Silver Jubilee 1977, official RM issue by B Sindall; obv. Queen enthroned, holding a sceptre in each hand, rev. Tudor rose within heptagonal shield, 44mm, 52.3g, no cert, in CofI, UNC; (3) 25th Anniversary of the Coronation 1978, issued by Westminster Abbey Trust, 44mm, 52.6g, with cert, in CofI, UNC, all sterling silver, together with a set of 4 x sterling silver crown medals 'Royal Salute 1977' obvs four different portraits of the Queen, revs Royal residences (Buckingham Palace, Sandringham, Windsor & Balmoral), each 38mm, 28.7g, issued by Pobjoy Mint, with cert, in CofI FDC £80 - 120
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A Set of 2 x Churchill Commemorative Medals 1974, 'Centenary of Birth 1874-1974', obv. facing portrait, rev. various artefacts associated with Churchill - paint brushes, books,, pen & inkstand, ceremonial sword etc, superimposed on a St George's cross & all enclosed within Garter & motto 'HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE'; 53mm, 80.7g & 38mm, 31.2g, both sterling silver, issued by Gregory & Co (jewellers), with cert, in CofI (rust stains on case), uneven toning UNC £60 - 80
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Miscellaneous Commemorative Silver Medals comprising: 5 x sterling silver proof medallic 1st Day covers issued by the UN 1975, each 38mm, 20.2g: Apollo-Soyuz Space Mission, Italy 500th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo, Centenary of Test & County Cricket Board, Royal Wedding 1973; Wimbledon Centenary 1877-1977 & MCC England Australia Centenary 1877-1977 both 45mm, 50g, with certs; London Olympics proof commemorative ingot (20g) with colourised logo & a silver proof £5; a set of 2 x medals commemorating the 450th anniversary of the death of the Emperor Maximilian 1 of Austria (1519-1969) similar to the 'Wedding Guldiner' (= 60 kreuzer) issued by the Hall Mint in 1479 to commemorate his marriage to Mary of Burgundy: one with obv. bust of Maximilian dividing ETATIS 19 ('aged 19') & other with bust of Mary dividing ETATIS 20 ('aged 20'), both with 9 Tyrolean shields on rev., .900 silver proofs, 35mm, each 17.7g, in a fitted Perspex case BU £80 - 120
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Miscellaneous Commemorative Medals including: 'The History of the Railways' 4 x silver medals (hallmarked Birmingham 1973), each 33.5g, card-mounted in a Sandhill case; 'Henry VIII & His Six Wives' 7 x miniature medalets (hallmarked London 1972) with portraits of Henry Viii & each of his wives, in a Sandhill case; a sterling silver proof medal 'The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci' depicting 'An Antique Warrior' issued by Pinches London 1976, 52g; a set of 4 x proof commemorative medals, two commemorating the Silver Jubilee 1977 (silver plated) & two the Golden Jubilee 2002 (gold plated), issued by Tower Mint; 'Great Britain's Olympic Legends' gold plated ingots with photos of Steve Redgrave & Sebastian Coe, each individually boxed, together with various coins: Bermuda silver 5 dollars 2002, Israel milled edge silver proof sheqel 1980 (.850 silver), Niue silver 2 dollars 2011, fantasy euro coins, 60 x foreign banknotes mostly low grade & other coins & commemorative medals £70 - 90
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3 x 19th Century Provincial Banknotes comprising: Newcastle on Tyne £1 1802 for Surtees, Burden & Brandling; creases, wrinkles & numerous tiny pinholes but no parts of note missing Fine; East Lothian Banking Company £1 unissued remainder, early 19th century, no date (18—), a 'Congreve' duty stamp for five pence on rev., a triangular-shaped piece missing to right of bottom edge, 35mm in length & extending approximately 15mm above cashier's signature line; there is also a band of dark discolouration along top edge to a depth of approximately 30mm o/wise VF; Dumfries Commercial Bank One Pound One Shilling (Guinea) 2nd April 1804 (printed date), made payable to John Stott & signed by the manager James Gracie & James Gracie Jun Cashier; embossed duty stamp for three pence at left centre; large piece missing at centre of top edge including most of cartouche with 'Dumfries,' charred edges & further evidence of charring & smoke damage along top third of note, column of handwritten figures on rev., remainder of note Fine £60 - 80
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South Africa, The Natal Bank Limited 5 Pounds, specimen/colour trial, date 18—, no serial numbers or signatures, dark blue on yellow underprint; two seated female figures around shield of arms at top centre above 'THE NATAL BANK LIMITED' perforated 'SPECIMEN' twice at lower right & centre; similar to S467 in KP 'World Paper Money' (Specialized Issues); RARE, AUNC £350 - 450
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Isle of Man £50 (1983 issue), Dawson, no prefix letter 071107, UNC £70 - 90
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Isle of Man Commemorative £20 (1979 issue) Dawson, no prefix letter 002594, 'ISSUED DURING MILLENNIUM YEAR 1979' below Queen's portrait, RARE, UNC £150 - 180
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Isle of Man £5 (first issued 1961) Stallard, no prefix letter 298781, a couple of light vertical folds o/wise RARE EF £200 - 300
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Isle of Man Miscellaneous Banknotes comprising: 50 new pence Dawson C677739 corner flick, creases VF; 10 x consecutively numbered £1 Cashen (first issued 1990) Y804851 - Y804860 UNC, 2 x £1 Dawson (first issued 1983) M26687 EF & P082633 VF & £1 Dawson (first issued 1990) VF & 3 x replacement notes: £20 Cashen Z017785 (no 'Limited'), £10 Shimmin Z034991 & £5 Cashen Z026095 (with 'Limited'), all with creases & wrinkles Fine £70 - 90
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'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples' a complete set of 50 x hallmarked sterling silver medals depicting significant historical events from Julius Caesar landing in Britain in 55BC to WWII; each medal 45mm, 40.5g, issued by the Danbury Mint 1971-75, limited edition of 7500 sets (this set No. 2596), in original leather-bound presentation album UNC£380 - 420
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'The 100 Greatest Cars' a complete set of 100 sterling silver miniatures, each 16mm x 5mm & 1.6g depicting iconic marques from the 1875 Marcus to 1975 Volkswagen; individual certificates for each miniature with details of design features etc; issued by Pinches 1975, in original fitted green leatherette case (a small magnifying glass is also included) £80 - 120
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