Holey Dollars & Dumps
Lot 1430 Session 5 (7.30pm Wednesday) Holey Dollars & Dumps
Estimate $9,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $11,200
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or 'dump', 1813 (Mira dies A/1). Traces of original coin on the reverse, light grey tone, very fine and rare in this condition.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 47 (lot 1526), L. Baton and Dr. John Falkner John Blaxland effects, great grandson of Gregory Blaxland (and Rev. Samuel Marsden). Dr. Blaxland in a signed letter by Len Barton of Barton's Antiques & Arts (24th June, 1981) (and included in this lot) is claimed to have informed Len Barton that the coin was presented to his family by Governor Macquarie to commemorate the birth of William Blaxland and the crossing of the Blue Mountains.
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Lot 1428
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Lot 1429
NEW SOUTH WALES, five shillings or holey dollar, 1813, struck from a Potosi Mint eight ...
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Lot 1430 This lot
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Estimate $9,000
Lot 1431
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (dies D/2). Nearly fine/fair.
Estimate $1,000
Lot 1432
NEW SOUTH WALES, fifteen pence or dump, 1813 (Mira dies A/1). Fair/poor.
Estimate $400