Coins, Banknotes and Medallions

A group of three rare mid to late 20th century Bradbury Wilkinson & Co steel printing plates for promotional material, each plate with obverse and reverse designs, detailed 'Bradbury Wilkinson', 'Designers, Engravers & Printers of all Security Documents...', obverse design with portrait of Sir Isaac Newton below apple tree to the right, reverse design with decorative elements, height of largest plate 33.6cm, width 25.2cm. Note: these were the earlier designs of this promotional material before the company was purchased by De La Rue, with a late design change using the same layout.

A group of eleven various mid to late 20th century Bradbury Wilkinson & Co printing plates and experimental works on mixed metal and plastic for use on advertising notes, including obverse and reverse designs, including Britannia watering a tree, the Lord Mayor of London being mobbed by a crowd, and Charles Dickens seated, height of largest 29cm, width 25.7cm (some environmental damage).

A collection of various printer's die plates and engraved works, probably Bradbury Wilkinson & Co and De La Rue, mainly for the reproduction of various artworks, together with two steel print rollers, one for a Central Bank of The Gambia five dalasis banknote, with engraved image of Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara, President of the Republic of The Gambia, and a Ten Years Service badge for the De la Rue Company plc (some environmental damage, print rollers with some heavy active rust overall).

An Edward VII sovereign 1907 and a George V sovereign 1911.

Three Elizabeth II half-sovereigns, comprising two 1982 and one 1984, cased.

A collection of Elizabeth II Royal Mint year-type proof specimen coin sets, including 2000, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2012, together with an Elizabeth II Royal Mint silver proof crown 1990 celebrating the 90th Birthday of the Queen Mother, cased with certificate, a silver proof one pound 1988, cased with certificate, a small group of other mixed Brilliant Uncirculated commemorative coins and a 20th century coin charm bracelet.

A jeweller's copy of an India Shah Alam II half-mohur, together with a small collection of European and world banknotes, including a States of Jersey sixpence note, serial number 381917 (circulated, folded and soiled).

An Elizabeth II Royal Mint crown-size eighteen-coin set celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee (some irregular toning, probably from storage), within a deluxe Royal Mint fitted box with certificates (some impairment to case in places)

A Victoria Jubilee Head sovereign 1892.

An Elizabeth II sovereign 1963.

A large collection of pre-1947 British silver nickel coinage, including half-crowns, florins, shillings and sixpences.

A small collection of European coins and banknotes, including a Germany fifty reichsmarks note 1933, a Republik Indonesia two-and-a-half rupiah note 1954 and a group of 1930s and later German silver coinage.

A collection of Elizabeth II Royal Mint commemorative coins, including a group of year-type set, comprising 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979, and a collection of silver proof commemoratives, including a medallion celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II, two United Kingdom two pounds 1998 and two Spink & Son Republic of Seychelles twenty-five rupees 1977, all deluxe-cased with certificates.

A large collection of European and world commemorative coinage, including an Elizabeth II Spink & Son silver proof eight-coin set, cased with certificate, a Turks and Caicos Islands silver proof ten crowns 1979 celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the Investiture of Charles Prince of Wales, cased with certificate, and a Bahamas Prince Charles Anniversary silver proof ten dollars 1978, cased with certificate.

A collection of Royal Mint/Royal Mail presentation coin/stamp covers, including a Celebration of Football, Royal Beasts, The Notting Hill Carnival and Berlin Airlift, together with a Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother coin/banknote cover, all within a collector's album.

An Ancient Greek series Cyprus Nikokles gold twelfth-stater, circa 373-361 BC, obverse with head of Aphrodite facing left, wearing jewelled stephanos, reverse with head of Athena facing left, wearing crested Corinthian helmet, Sears Volume 2 5809, weight 0.69g. Note: passed to the current vendor around the middle part of the 20th century by his father.

A collection of twenty-two Victoria crowns, including Jubilee Head and Veiled Head (mostly fair to fine throughout).

A collection of 19th and early 20th century medals and ephemera relating to the Rhodes family and its membership of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, including three gold masters' neck badges/medals, comprising one to 'James Alfred Rhodes, Livery 18 Octr 1865, Assistant 18 Jany 1893, Master 5 July 1899', bearing 'Master 1899' clasp, one to 'James Rhodes, Livery 20 Oct 1823, Assistant 16 Nov 1859, Master 6 July 1864 and 16 Feb 1870', and one to 'Arthur Elliot Rhodes, Livery 19th August 1891, Assistant 16th March 1927', bearing 'Master 1930' clasp, all within original fitted cases, a group of silver livery medals, comprising a George III example to 'Saml. Rhodes, Livery Dec 20th 1804', London 1802 by John Bassingwhite, obverse engraved and chased with the Company's elephant emblem, a similar George III example to 'James Rhodes, Livery Octr 20th 1823', London 1822 by George Turner, and seven others to Charles Rhodes, Percival Rhodes, Arthur Elliot Rhodes, James Rhodes and James Alfred Rhodes, all within original fitted cases, and various related paperwork, letters and photographs.

A collection of Victorian and later silver coinage, comprising shillings, sixpences and threepences, including a group of Young Head shillings, comprising 1839, 1853, 1858, 1874, 1879, 1880, 1873 and 1878.