New Zealand

Lot 1299    SESSION 4 (4.30pm Tues 27 July)    New Zealand

Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $750

ELIZABETH II, Royal Mint trial set of planchets for the 1967 decimal currency issue, undated (1966), for one cent, two cents, five cents, ten cents, twenty cents (2) and fifty cents. Uncirculated and very rare. (7)

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 78 (lot 3847) (W.H. Lampard Collection) and previously from Ray Harwood c.1984. With ticket and typed notes from Harwood stating that they were produced by the Royal Mint, London for the N.Z. Decimal Currency Board in 1966. He also states that two sizes were considered for the 20c coin. All coins are uniform with the Royal Mint logo on the obverse and denominations on the reverse. The one and two cents have plain edges and the other coins have milling as per the currency issue. The set differs quite markedly from the John J. Pittman set (lot 5210 of his sale),(see Noble Numismatics sale 72, lot 514, sold for $2200). The Pittman set was probably an earlier trial and included the one dollar coin. The one and two cents have no denomination (two obverses) and the five and ten cent planchets have a plain obverse. The figures on the 5c,10c and 50c are also of a different style to the this set. The Pittman set has no milling to any of the pieces, other than the 20c which is the same design as the rejected sized piece in the this set.