WORLD COINS FROM VARIOUS PROPERTIES 1335


URTUKIDS OF MARDIN, Hosam al din Yuluk Arslan, Æ Dirhem, AH 585 (?) [1189?], 12.14g/9h (Mitchiner 1037; Album 1829.1); ZENGIDS OF MOSUL, Nasir al din Mahmud, Æ Dirhem, AH 627 [1230], 7.57g/1h (Mitchiner 1129; Album 1870.2) [2]. About very fine


£40-60


1339


BERGAMO, Frederick II (1197-1250), Grosso da quattro denarii, 1.26g/4h (Biaggi 352). Good very fine and toned, very rare


£1,000-1,200 1336


KHANATE OF KASHGAR, Ya’qub Beg, Tilla, AH 1293 [1876], Dar al-Sultanat Kashgar, in the name of the Ottoman Sultan ’Abd al-’Aziz, 3.60g/5h (cf. KM. C37-2.5). Off-centre and pierced, otherwise better than very fine, very rare, the date apparently unpublished for the type


£300-350


’Abd al-’Aziz was deposed four months into AH 1293. No coins of Ya’qub Beg are known with the title of his successor Murad V, who reigned for only three months in the summer of 1876; however pieces dated 1293 are known in the name of the next Sultan, ’Abd al-Hamid II (KM. C37-3)


1340


FERRARA, Ercole d’Este (1471-1505), Grossone, 3.64g/4h (CNI pl. XXX, 11; Biaggi 771). Nearly very fine


£700-800


Italy 1341


FOS DI NOVO, Maria Maddelena, Luigino, 1667 (Cammarano 65; cf. B 1105). Light scratch on face, otherwise extremely fine


£80-100


1337


AQUILA, Ferdinand I d’Aragon (1458-94), Coronato, after 1488, rev. Archangel Michael, privy mark T both sides, 3.86g/8h (Biaggi 117). Some slight surface pitting, otherwise good very fine with a charming portrait


£300-350 1342


MILAN, Galeazzo Maria Sforza (1468-76), Testone, 9.65g/1h (Biaggi 1548). Flan flaw behind head, otherwise better than very fine, toned


£450-550


1343


MILAN, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Testone, 9.54g/12h (Biaggi 1548). Very fine, attractively toned


£700-800 1338


BARI, Basilica of St Nicholas, 12th-13th century, uniface lead pilgrim’s badge, St Nicholas facing beneath arch, wearing pall, S N at sides, 40 x 29mm, 11.11g. Broken at top left, otherwise in good condition


£500-600


St Nicholas (270-347) was bishop of Myra in Asia Minor. Renowned for his generosity and kindness, and known for his secret gift-giving, he is the model for our modern Santa Claus. His relics were surreptitiously moved from Myra to Bari in 1087 and the basilica which housed them became a major point of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages


These lots are illustrated on our web site 1344


MILAN, Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Testone, 9.66g/4h (Biaggi 1548). About very fine, toned


£400-500 www.dnw.co.uk G Bullion lots sold under the Gold Investment Scheme


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