Holey Dollars & Dumps
Lot 1383 Session 5 (7.30pm Tuesday) Holey Dollars & Dumps
Estimate $180,000
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NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII, Lima (Peru) Mint eight reales 1808JP (Mira - Noble 1808/3; dies I/11 : A/10). Countermarks nearly extremely fine, very clear and almost upright, host coin good very fine and very rare, one of the most desirable of all holey dollars.
Ex A.Robson Collection (in 1890s), M.R.Roberts Sale 9th March 1981 (lot 23), Spink Australia privately in March 1981 to Melbourne collector C.Paton, then Noble Numismatics Sale 79 (lot 1244) and now S.Baxter Collection.
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Lot 1381
SPAIN, Charles IIII, two escudos, 1800 Madrid (KM.435.1) Very good/good fine.
Estimate $200
Lot 1382
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII Mexico ...
Estimate $350,000
Lot 1383 This lot
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII, Lima ...
Estimate $180,000
Lot 1384
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck on a Charles IIII, Mexico ...
Estimate $60,000
Lot 1385
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies A/1) (6.01g; 19mm x 2.2mm). ...
Estimate $50,000