Aust. Gold - Port Phillip, Kangaroo Office
Lot 1604 SESSION 6 (7.30PM TUESDAY 29TH JULY) Aust. Gold - Port Phillip, Kangaroo Office
Estimate $5,000
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PORT PHILLIP, Kangaroo Office, one ounce in gold, 1853 (32.23g), milled edge, upset 180? or coin axis struck from copy dies made for David Gee, c1966. Some jeweller's rouge still adhering otherwise good extremely fine.
See example in Sale 138 (lot 628).
Found by the vendor in a twenty coin roll of Saudi Arabia Aramco Oil Company, four sovereign pieces purchased from Geoffrey Young of Harrogate, Yorkshire in 1969/70 when the vendor was a third year medical student in Edinburgh. The vendor is the same person who formed the important Sheffield Collection of British hammered gold coins in our sale 43 (November 1993).
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Lot 1602
ADELAIDE POUND, 1852, second type, slightly later die state with five dots (notches) above 2(2 ...
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Lot 1603
ADELAIDE POUND, 1852, second type. Later die state as before, extremely fine and well struck ...
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Lot 1604 This lot
PORT PHILLIP, Kangaroo Office, one ounce in gold, 1853 (32.23g), milled edge, upset 180? or ...
Estimate $5,000
Lot 1605
QUEEN VICTORIA, first type, 1855. Nearly extremely fine and rare in this condition.
Estimate $15,000
Lot 1606
QUEEN VICTORIA, first type, 1855. Mint bloom in lettering, minor surface marks otherwise good extremely ...
Estimate $10,000