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British Army’s first VC sells for £210,000
Coins and Medals - 04 May 2010
THE first Victoria Cross awarded to a soldier in the British Army sold for £210,000 (plus 20 per cent buyer's premium) at Spink in London on April 22. The Conservative Party donor and VC collector Lord Ashcroft was beaten to the prize by an anonymous buyer.
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Major John Knox of the Scots Fusilier Guards, whose acts of bravery during the Crimean War battles of Alma, Inkerman and Sebastapol, where his arm was blown off by a cannonball, earned him the first Victoria Cross awarded to a British soldier.
Fears that new US import rule may blight coins
Coins and Medals - 29 April 2010
ANTIQUITIES and other cultural property claimed by Italy as part of its heritage may soon be barred from entering the United States unless accompanied by Italian export permits. This could have a significant effect on the trade and transport of classical coins, for which the US is one of the largest markets.
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New coins auctions firm
Coins and Medals - 11 February 2010
INTERNATIONAL Coin Exchange, a new firm of Dublin-based auctioneers, will hold their first sale on February 19.
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Fake Olympic medals appearing on eBay
Coins and Medals - 18 January 2010
SPECIALIST dealers believe fake medals from the XXIXth Olympiad in Beijing are appearing for sale on eBay.
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London Coin Fair sold on
Coins and Medals - 11 January 2010
The London Coin Fair has been sold by its proprietors of over 30 years, Frances and Howard Simmons, to Mike and Lu Vessid.
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Baldwin’s to sell medals from Hall collection
Coins and Medals - 22 December 2009
THIS 15th century bronze portrait of Cecilia Gonzaga is one of more than 2000 medals in the collection formed by New York collector and former Hollywood actor Michael Hall to be offered by Baldwin's in London in 2010.
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The commemorative medal showing the daughter of the Marquis of Mantua in 1447. Made by Pisanello, it is expected to make more than £65,000 when it appears at Baldwin’s as part of the sale of the Michael Hall collection.
Ashcroft captures ‘ultimate VC and bar’
Coins and Medals - 30 November 2009
THE Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft has reportedly paid nearly £1.5m for the only double Victoria Cross awarded during the First World War.
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Landmark Renaissance medals set for sale in December
Coins and Medals - 09 November 2009
ON December 9, Morton and Eden are to offer what is possibly the most important collection of Renaissance medals to come onto the market in decades.
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Estimated at £200,000-300,000, the gold medal of Queen Mary (1554) which, with many other medallic masterpieces, is scheduled for sale at Morton and Eden on December 9.
‘Diseased’ Australian banknotes make £350,000
Coins and Medals - 12 October 2009
FROM May 1913, the first distinctive Commonwealth of Australia banknotes were issued. They were controversial in that no portrait of the reigning monarch, George V, was included in the design.
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The ‘offending’ ten shilling note which sold, together with the other five examples from a 1913-14 issue of the first Commonweath of Australia bank notes, for £350,000 hammer at Spink in association with Tennants.
Detectorist jailed over coins fraud
Coins and Medals - 26 May 2009
A metal detector enthusiast who pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud has been jailed for six months for selling modern fakes.
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