Ranald Hill Collection of Tokens
Lot 968 Session 3 (2.30pm Tuesday) Ranald Hill Collection of Tokens
Estimate $17,500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $21,000
PEEK AND CAMPBELL - SYDNEY TEA STORES, Sydney penny, 1852 (A.427A; Heyde 247/2) five lines of legend on obverse, reverse as A.427. One of the rarest tokens by J.C. Thornthwaite. Even brown tone, very fine and excessively rare, the finest of two known.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 57 (lot 555, from an English collection, previously unknown to the market) and W.G. & L.M. Wright Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 89B (lot 2099). The other example recorded by G. Heyde was last sold by us in Sale 29 (lot 2806) and is now in the Moran Collection.
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Lot 966
PEEK & CAMPBELL - SYDNEY TEA STORES, Sydney pennies, 1852 and 1853 (A.426, 431) by ...
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Lot 967
(PEEK & CAMPBELL), Tea Stores, Sydney, penny, 1852 (A.427) by J.C Thornthwaite. Struck in high ...
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Lot 968 This lot
PEEK AND CAMPBELL - SYDNEY TEA STORES, Sydney penny, 1852 (A.427A; Heyde 247/2) five lines ...
Estimate $17,500
Lot 969
PEEK & CAMPBELL - SYDNEY TEA STORES, Sydney halfpenny, 1852 (A.428) by J.C. Thornthwaite. Die ...
Estimate $1,500
Lot 970
PEEK & CAMPBELL - SYDNEY TEA STORES, Sydney halfpenny, 1852 (A.428) by J.C. Thornthwaite. Die ...
Estimate $500