Holey Dollars & Dumps
Lot 1155 Session 5 (7.30pm Tuesday 22 November) Holey Dollars & Dumps
Estimate $40,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $34,000
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies A/1), traces of the reverse of the Spanish American eight reales on the reverse. Deep gun metal grey toned, well struck up on the obverse, good very fine with obverse being nearly extremely fine on the right hand side, very rare in this condition, one of the finest known and a most attractive example of Australia's first coin.
Ex A.H.F.Baldwin Collection, Spink Australia Sale 2 (lot 515) and the Robert A.Climpson Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 85 (lot 1941).
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