Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 85

May 31-June 2, 2015 Pre Long Beach

World Gold

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 3248		France: Navarre. Ducat, ND. Fr-175; PA.3374. Catherine De Foix & Jean D'Albret, 1483-1512 (Catalina de Albret & Don Juan de Aragon). Crowned busts facing each other. Reverse :; Crowned arms of Navarre. Mint state with outstanding portraits, all detail is sharply struck up. Very Rare. NGC graded MS-61. The Kingdom of Navarre is considered as a part of the Spanish monarchy today, but it actually started as a small kingdom of the Basques, not the Visigoths nor the Franks. The kingdom had a closer relationship with France rather than the Castilian crown during the medieval period, and played an important role in trading. The native royal line intermarried with the French dynasties and in 1234 when the last native king died, the kingdom became totally French. Queen Catherine was the last ruler of Navarre before the Castilian-Aragonese invasion in 1515. The presented piece was issued during her reign, even though it appears similar to the Spanish gold excelente, these coins are actually considered as issued under French influence. This is the first example we've ever handled, and probably one of the finest piece of the type. Estimated Value $30,000 - 35,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3249		France. Pavillion d'or, ND. Fr-266; Ciani-270. Philippe VI De Valois, 1328-1350. House of Valois (1328-1498). King seated on throne holding scepter under draped pavillion. Legend -(Lis) PHILIPPVS: DEI GRA: FRANCORVM: REX.Reverse :; Floriated cross in quadrilobe, crown in angles. Legend - + XP'C : VINCIT. XP'C. REGNAT. XP'C. IMPERAT. A superb example, very high grade, all detail sharp with original luster. Very Rare. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $10,000 - 12,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3250		France. Gold Ecu d'Or, undated. Fr-291. Charles VI, 1380-1422. Crowned arms of France. Rev. Floriated cross in quadrilobe. Natural flan flaw on the reverse, brilliant mint lustre. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $1,800-UP. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,586
Lot 3251		France. Gold Ecu d'Or, undated. Fr-291. Charles VI, 1380-1422. Crowned arms of France. Rev. Floriated cross in quadrilobe. Sharply struck and well centered with much original mint luster. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,250-UP. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,058
Lot 3252		France. Platinum 50 Francs, 1862-A. As Fr-582; as KM-804.1. Weight 15.9 grams. Napoleon III. Laureate head right. Reverse :; Imperial arms. Only 5 pieces struck sometime in the 1950's, as per Metcalf. All order for him. Very Rare. Choice Brilliant Uncirculated. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. Ex Edwards H. Metcalf Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $4,406
Lot 3253		France. 100 Francs, 1886-A. Fr-590; KM-832. Weight 0.9334 ounce. Guardian angel Genius. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,821
Lot 3254		German States: Breslau. Ducat, 1553. Fr-445. City coinage. Arms. Reverse :; St. Wenceslas. NGC graded About Uncirculated, Details (Excessive Surface Hairlines). Estimated Value $800 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,469
Lot 3255		German States: Fulda. 8 Ducats, 1738. Fr-1057. 27.9 grams. Amandus von Buseck, 1737-1756. Capped, draped bust right. Leg: ANANDVS.D.G.S.R.I.PRINC.ET.ABB.FVLD. Reverse :; Helmeted ornate four fold arms, date below. Leg: VERITATE.ET.IVSTITIA. Only two known examples. Extremely Rare. Lustrous and nearly Mint State with a minute trace of mount removed. The abbey of Fulda was founded in 744 by the Abbot Sturm, a pupil of St. Boniface, and the abbot of Fulda was declared primate of all the abbots in Germany in 968. In 1752, Fulda became bishopric, and therefore the prince-abbots were given the additional title of prince-bishop. Amandus, Frhr. von Buseck (1685-1756) was the ruled Fulda from 1737 to his death, he became the first bishop in 1752. During his reign, the city went through a baroque building campaign. These large format gold pieces were given as favors by the bishop and usually proudly worn in social events by the grantee. The only other example known was probably worn too. Estimated Value $65,000 - 75,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3256		German States: Hamburg. 2 Ducats, 1705-IR. Fr-1115; KM-336. Bust of Joseph I right, on base with imperial eagle. Reverse :; Arms in palm branches. Wave in the flan. Attractively toned with considerable amount of original mint luster. Very Rare. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $12,000 - 14,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3257		German States: Hamburg. Ducat, 1710-IR. Fr-1116; KM-333. Bust of Joseph I right. Reverse :; Arms within branches. Minor reverse mark in the field. Sharply struck with much original mint luster. Uncirculated. Estimated Value $5,000 - 6,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3258		German States: Hanover. 10 Taler, 1827-B. Fr-1158; KM-133. George IV of England. Laureate head left. Reverse :; Value and date. NGC graded Extremely Fine, Details (Excessive Surface Hairlines). Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,700. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3259		German States: Hesse-Darmstadt. 20 Marks, 1874-H. Fr-3784; KM-352; J-217, Ludwig III. One year type. NGC graded EF-45. Estimated Value $800 - 900. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $764
Lot 3260		German States: Nuremberg. Ducat, 1700. Fr-1885. Lamb on globe. Date in chronogram. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,600. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3261		German States: Prussia. Proof 20 Marks, 1913-A. Fr-3833; KM-537. Wilhelm II. Uniformed bust right. NGC graded Proof 66. Estimated Value $2,400 - 2,600. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,408
Lot 3262		German States: Regensburg. Goldgulden, 1512. Fr-2454. Obverse; City arms with date above. Leg: +MONE.NO.AVRE.CIVITA.RATISP. Reverse :; St. Wolfgang standing holding church. Leg: S:WOLFGA - NG:ORPRO. Boldly struck. Regensburg's first goldgulden, extremely rare. Extremely Fine. Estimated Value $15,000 - 17,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3263		German States: Saxony. Ducat, 1616. Fr-2642. Sophia, 1582-1601. Crowned initials. Reverse :; "IHS". Struck until the 18th century. NGC graded MS-62, Restrike. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,700. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3264		Great Britain. Half Noble, ND. S.1508; Fr-96. Edward III. Fourth coinage, Treaty Period, 1361-1369. King standing in ship with sword and shield. Reverse :; Royal floriated cross. Edge flaw goes through the flan at 2 o'clock. Sharply struck example. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $5,405
Lot 3265		Great Britain. Guinea, 1669. S.3342; Fr-354. Charles II, 1660-1685. Third laureate bust right. Collectible problem free coin. NGC graded Good-6. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,058
Lot 3266		Great Britain. Guinea, 1791. S.3729; Fr-356; KM-609. George III. Spade type reverse. NGC graded EF-45. Estimated Value $700 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $764
Lot 3267		Great Britain. Guinea, 1794. S.3729; Fr-356; KM-609. George III. Spade type reverse. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3268		Great Britain. Guinea, 1797. S.3729; Fr-356a; KM-609. George III. Spade type reverse. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $900 - 1,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,175
Lot 3269		Great Britain. ½ Sovereign, 1817. S.3786; Fr-372; KM-673. George III, 1760-1820. Laureate head right. Reverse :; Crowned shield. Lovely mint brilliance with good eye appeal. PCGS graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,293
Lot 3270		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1817. S.3786; Fr-372; KM-673. George III. Laureate head right. Reverse :; Crowned shield. Uncirculated with a pleasant red tone. PCGS graded MS-63. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,175
Lot 3271		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1820. S.3785C; Fr-371; KM-674. George III. Laureate head right. Lustrous. NGC graded AU-55. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,400. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3272		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1820. S.3785c; Fr-371; KM-674. George III. Cleaned. NGC graded Very Fine (Surface Hairlines). Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $617
Lot 3273		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1821. S.3800; Fr-376; KM-682. George IV. Laureate head left. Lustrous with light cleaning. PCGS graded Genuine About Uncirculated, Details (Cleaning). Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,469
Lot 3274		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1821. S.3800; Fr-376; KM-682. George IV. Laureate head left. NGC graded Extremely Fine, Details (Removed From Jewelry). Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $646
Lot 3275		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1824. S.3800; Fr-376; KM-682. George IV. Laureate head left. NGC graded Very Fine, Details (Rim Repair). Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $588
Lot 3276		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1825. S.3803; Fr-379; KM-689. George IV. Laureate bust of king right. Reverse :; Crowned Hanoverian shield. Full mint brilliance. A difficult coin to find in high grade now. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $1,200 - 1,400. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,469
Lot 3277		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1836. S.3929B; Fr-383; KM-717. William IV. Bare head right. A very pleasing and lustrous example. \ Difficult to locate in top grades. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,468
Lot 3278		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1837. S.3829B; Fr-383; KM-717. William IV. Bare head portrait of King right. Reverse :; Crowned shield and mantle. Date below. Nice surfaces with glowing luster. NGC graded MS-61. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,200. Ex: Thos. H. Law Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3279		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1845. S.3852; Fr-387e; KM-736.1. Victoria. Young head. Roman Letter "I" in date. Lustrous. NGC graded AU-58. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3280		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1849. S.3852C; Fr-387e; KM-736.1. Victoria. Young head. Reverse :; Crowned shield. Roman letter "I" in date. Lustrous. NGC graded AU-58. Estimated Value $1,800 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3281		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1855. S.3852D; Fr-387e; KM-736.1. Victoria. WW incuse. Shield reverse. Nice original lustrous example. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $600 - 800. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,087
Lot 3282		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1863. S.3853; Fr-387i; KM-736.2. Victoria. Shield reverse with die number 11 below. NGC graded MS-62. Estimated Value $500 - 600. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3283		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1866. S.3853; Fr-387i; KM-736.2. Victoria. NGC graded MS-63. Estimated Value $600 - 700. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $705
Lot 3284		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1871. S.3853B; Fr-387i; KM-736.2. Victoria, 1837-1901. Die number 30. Young head. Reverse :; Shield. Nice mint luster. PCGS graded MS-62. Estimated Value $500 - 700. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $400
Lot 3285		Great Britain. 'Jubilee Head' Pattern Sovereign, 1880. W&R-326 variety; KM-PnB118. Silver 4.65 grams. Edge plain, struck en medaille. Obverse, crowned portrait of Queen by Joachim E. Boehm to left, veiled and draped with broad crown, wearing a necklace and cross; legend VICTORIA D:G: BRITT: REG: F:D: Reverse, St George and Dragon by B. Pistrucci, no B P in exergue, edge plain, struck en medaille with plain edge. Made at the Royal Mint. The coin has full proof fields and gorgeous royal blue toning tinged with mauve at the peripherary. This coin surfaced quite recently in London, where its true importance was not immediately realised. Unique. NGC graded Proof 64. This coin is the first ever pattern for J.E. Boehm's 'Jubilee head' portrait, and it is unique. Krause lists the coin as 'one known.,' and whereas 'English Pattern Trial and Proof Coins in Gold' by Wilson & Rasmussen has 3 'Jubilee head' pattern Sovereigns in gold (by Boehm) for the dates 1881, 1883 and 1885 - # 326, 327, 328 - there is no mention of a pattern Jubilee Sovereign made as early as 1880 in either silver or gold. The Victorian 'Jubilee head' effigy by J Edgar Boehm was probably the most controversial yet iconic coinage portrait in British history. The effigy of the Queen eventually adopted for use on the silver and gold coins of 1887-1892 showed Victoria wearing a tiny crown which many felt gave the appearance of slipping off the back of her head! Yet, ironically, a full 7 years earlier in 1880, Boehm had begun his design work for the new coinage, and we can see from this very special Sovereign that he had originally intended the crown to be larger. In the mid-1970s some correspondence was discovered in a locked box in the basement of the old Royal Mint at Tower Hill. Contained among the papers were letters from C.W. Fremantle, the deputy master of the mint and many of these letters were about the new Jubilee design. In February 1879 it appears that Victoria's private secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby told Fremantle that J Edgar Boehm (sculptor to the royal family and son of the director of the Imperial Mint in Vienna) had been instructed to produce a new coinage portrait in time for the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887. Queen Victoria herself recorded in her journal that she sat for Boehm in June 1979. Boehm was uncertain about the correct shape of the crown, and there was some correspondence in early 1880 over the preferred style. He made some drawings, together with some wax models, and these were shown to the Queen and her daughter Princess Louise. There is evidence that by early July 1880 the first pattern coin had been struck, and it is almost certainly this important silver Sovereign. An unimaginable number of delays ensued. Boehm was anxious about his eyesight and refused to work by gaslight during the intense London fog of the period. It seems that Boehm was also involved in more lucrative work over the next few years (the production of statues, medals etc) and he put the coin design on 'the back burner.' Various patterns (by Boehm) exist for 1882 through to 1886, but most received criticism from the Queen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and others. Finally Fremantle wrote in early 1886 that Boehm was putting the finishing touches to his design and he sought authority to pay him the princely sum of 200 guineas (£210 or around $320) for his years of work! Boehm's final (modified) coinage portrait eventually adorned the national coinage in 1887 - the first major portrait change in fifty years - but it was not well received, and there was much criticism of the new small crown perched on Victoria's head. Sadly, Boehm's design was replaced by Thomas Brock's 'Old Head' portrait on all UK coinage after 6 years, whereas Wyon's 'young head' portrait of Victoria had had a lifespan of 50 years. If only Boehm's original portrait, seen on this pattern, had been used for the Jubilee coinage, things may have been different. Estimated Value $15,000-UP. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $14,688
Lot 3286		Great Britain. Matte Proof ½ Sovereign, 1902. S.3974A; Fr-401a; KM-804. Edward VII. PCI graded Proof 60. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 3287		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1902. S.3969; Fr-400; KM-805. Edward VII. A very pleasing example. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $940
Lot 3288		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1909. S.3969; Fr-400; KM-805. Edward VII. NGC graded MS-64. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $617
Lot 3289		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1910. S.3969; Fr-400; KM-805. Edward VII. PCGS graded MS-63. Estimated Value $400 - 500. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $376
Lot 3290		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1911. S.3996; KM-820. Weight 0.2355 ounce. George V. PCGS graded MS-62. Estimated Value $250 - 275. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $353
Lot 3291		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1979. KM-919. Weight 0.2355 ounce. Elizabeth II. In original case. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $323
Lot 3292		Great Britain. Four Piece Gold Set: 5 and 2 Pounds, Sovereign and Half Sovereign, 1980. KM-924, 923, 919, 922. Total weight 2.0016 ounces. Elizabeth II. St. George reverse. In original case. Lot of 4 coins. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,820
Lot 3293		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1980. KM-919. Weight 0.2355 ounce. Elizabeth II. In original case. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $282
Lot 3294		Great Britain. Sovereign, 1982. KM-919. Weight 0.2355 ounce. Elizabeth II. In original case. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $225 - 250. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $294
Lot 3295		Great Britain. Half Sovereign, 1982. KM-922. Weight 0.1176 ounce. Elizabeth II. In original case. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $120 - 140. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $176
Lot 3296		Great Britain. 2 Pounds, 1983. KM-923. Weight 0.4693 ounce. Elizabeth II. Reverse :; St. George. In original case. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $475 - 525. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $588
Lot 3297		Great Britain. Three Piece Gold Set: 5 Pounds, Sovereign and Half Sovereign, 1984. KM-924, 919, 922. Total weight 1.5307 ounces. Elizabeth II. St. George reverse. In original case. Lot of 3 coins. Choice Brilliant Proof. Estimated Value $1,500 - 1,600. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $2,174

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