M.E Freehill Collection of British Ceylon
Lot 1747 SESSION 4 (9.30AM WEDNESDAY 29TH JULY) M.E Freehill Collection of British Ceylon
Estimate $200
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SOLD $1,000
CEYLON, George V - Elizabeth II, copper half cents, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1926 (KM.106), 1937 (2), 1940 (KM.110); one cents, 1912, 1914 (2), 1917, 1920, 1922 (2), 1923, 1925, 1926, 1928, 1929 (KM.107), 1937, 1940, 1942 (KM.111), 1942 (2), 1943 (2), 1945 (2); nickel brass two cents, 1944, 1951, 1955, 1957 (KM.117, 119, 124); cupro-nickel five cents, 1909, 1910 (KM.103), 1921H, 1920 (2), 1926 (KM.108), 1942, 1943 (KM.113.1), 1944, 1945 (2) (KM.113.2), also an Italian aluminium ten lire (KM.93), cut to shape to subsitute for a five cents, purchased in Colombo in 1968; nickel brass ten cents, 1946, 1951 (2) (KM.118, 121); twenty five cents, 1943, 1951 (KM.115, 122); fifty cents, 1943, 1951 (2) (KM.116, 123). Mostly uncirculated, a 1926 one cent ex Baldwin full red (?5), overall extremely fine - choice uncirculated. (52)
Ex Mark E.Freehill Collection, the first from R.A.Climpson (Sale 85B, lot 2289 part).
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CEYLON, Edward VII, copper one cents, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1908, 1909, 1910 (KM.102). First and ...
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CEYLON, George V - George VI, silver ten cents, 1911-14, 1917, 1919B, 1920B, 1921B (2), ...
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CEYLON, George V - Elizabeth II, copper half cents, 1912, 1914, 1917, 1926 (KM.106), 1937 ...
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Lot 1748
CEYLON, George V, cupro-nickel five cents, 1912H, struck off centre by twenty percent; another but ...
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Lot 1749
CEYLON, George V, proof silver fifty cents, 1926 (KM.109a). FDC and rare.
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