Coins, Banknotes and Medallions

A collection of Royal Mint/Royal Mail presentation coin covers, including a Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother five pounds coin and note combination, a Queen's Golden Jubilee silver stamp ingot, No. 0763, a Manchester 2002 The XVII Commonwealth Games two pounds four-coin cover and a Collecting for Posterity 250 Years of the British Museum commemorative medal, within a variety of folders.

A rare early 20th century gilt and enamelled Magicians' Club London member's medallion, detailed to the centre with a design of an Egyptian sphinx and pyramid, suspended on a blue ribbon with brooch clasp.

A rare Thomas De La Rue Incorporating Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd advertising desk stand of A-board design, detailed 'Thomas De La Rue', ' Designers, Engravers and Printers of Security Documents...', obverse and reverse printed with designs of William Caxton and his press, printed in purple, yellow, green and orange. Note: probably issued as an advertising work to promote the International Banknote Society's 18th Annual European Congress in 1988, together with a rare Bradbury Wilkinson and Thomas De La Rue advertising desk calendar for 1988 of A-board design, detailed 'Bradbury Wilkinson', 'Designers, Engravers & Printers of all Security Documents...', obverse with portrait of Sir Isaac Newton below apple tree to the right, reverse with decorative design, printed in orange, green and brown, within original card sleeve, and a group of three mid-20th century Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd advertising notes, detailed 'Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd', 'Designers, Engravers and Printers of Bank Notes, Postage Stamps, Bonds and all Monetary Documents', each obverse with portrait vignette of Viscount Nelson to the middle right, sailing vessels at sea below, each reverse with Mercury and sea monster entwining trident to the left, all printed in brown, orange and green.

An extremely rare engraved steel progressive die plate for a Portsmouth Memorial poster stamp 1914-1918, probably by Bradbury Wilkinson, height 8cm, width 10.1cm (some sticky residue to surface, a small amount of environmental damage to edges, some rust patches). Note: it is thought that these stamps were produced in aid of the memorial charity to erect a monument in the city of Portsmouth, together with a rare late 19th century engraved steel die plate depicting a locomotive, probably American, probably used for the National Banknote Company, New York, height 8.2cm, width 12.7cm, a group of trial prints from the same plate and an early 20th century engraved steel die plate for a stamp-form advertising design, detailed 'Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. Ltd.', with portrait of a bearded man, value '3' to top corner, the reverse of the plate stamped 'John Sellers & Sons, Sheffield, England', height 7.6cm, width 6.5cm.

A late 20th century American Bank Note Company white metal printer's design element plate, probably a sample plate showing values, borders and vignettes for use on banknotes, height 29cm, width 46cm, together with two Bradbury Wilkinson & Co De La Rue engraved steel printer's plates for advertising banknotes, both front and back design elements depicting Isaac Newton, height 25.7cm, width 20.3cm.

A collection of mixed British and other coins, including a group of 19th and 20th century silver and silver nickel coinage, part within an aluminium-covered carry case with fitted interior, and a Jubilee Mint silver and silver gilt five pounds three-coin set 2015 commemorating the 70th Anniversary of V-E Day, cased with certificate.

A collection of George III and later silver and silver nickel coinage, including a Victoria Jubilee Head crown 1889, a Victoria Jubilee Head double florin 1887 and a George III shilling 1816.

A collection of Royal Mint and other commemorative coins and coin sets, including five year-type specimen sets, an Elizabeth II silver proof crown 1977 and an Elizabeth II silver proof crown 1993 commemorating the Coronation 40th Anniversary, most cased with certificates.

A large collection of European and world coins and paranumismatic items, including a group of pre-1947 silver nickel coinage, a silver Coronation Medal 1902, a Lundy half-puffin 1929 and a George V crown 1935.

A collection of USA coins and banknotes, including five Morgan dollars, comprising two 1889 and three 1921, four Peace dollars, comprising 1922, two 1923 and 1926, a group of silver and part-silver half-dollars, an Andrew Jackson twenty dollars note and a Ulysses Grant fifty dollars note.

A collection of British silver and silver nickel coinage, including half-crowns, florins, shillings and sixpences, within Whitman and Whitman-style coin folders, together with a collection of loose silver and silver nickel threepences, a George III crown (worn), and a George V crown 1935.

A collection of Royal Mint and other commemorative coins, including a Royal Mint Golden Jubilee Collection twenty-five coin set, comprising mainly silver but also base metal crown-size coins, deluxe-cased with certificates, and a Westminster Coronation Collection silver proof fifty pence twelve-coin set, cased with certificates.

A small collection of coins, banknotes and paranumismatic items, including a George III shilling 1787, two Victoria Gothic florins (worn), a small group of late 20th century European banknotes and two 20th century chequebooks, one depicting Concorde, the other depicting the climbing of Mount Everest.

A large collection of European and world banknotes, including an Elizabeth II East Caribbean Currency Authority one dollar note, a Central bank of Oman one rial note, a Qatar Central Bank one riyal note and a Central Bank of Iraq twenty-five dinars note, together with a small group of European and world coins, including a USA half-dollar 1939, two USA five cents, 1899 and 1911, and a South Africa two shillings 1897.

A small group of European and world silver coinage, including a Maria Theresa thaler, dated 1780 (probably a restrike), a Victoria one rupee 1840 and a William IV one rupee 1835.

An Austria gold four ducats, dated 1915 but a later restrike, together with a Maria Theresa thaler restrike, dated 1780.

A scarce Elveden Game Farm, Thetford, Norfolk, cheque on behalf of His Highness The Maharajah Duleep Singh for the sum of six pounds, dated March 27th 1885, for one hundred and forty-four pheasant eggs. Note: the Elveden Estate was formerly owned by Maharajah Duleep Singh, who became one of the finest shots in England.

A large collection of European and world coins and paranumismatic items, including two George IV shillings 1826, an Oscar II one krona 1888, a Canada five cents 1888, a Netherlands East Indies quarter-gulden 1938 and a George VI and Queen Elizabeth Coronation Medal 1937.

A large collection of European and world coinage, including two Victoria double florins, 1889 and 1890, an Elizabeth I hammered silver twopence, mintmark 2, an Edward hammered silver penny, London Mint (worn), a Papal States Pope Pius IX one lira 1866, a Portugal twenty centavos 1916 and an Italy Victor Emmanuel II five lire 1869.