Rare Coins Sold
(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 12. Two rare Waitangi crowns, one offered uncatalogued from the audience, fetched £3OO and £350 yesterday morning in the second day of a coin, stamp and antique sale. About 1200 of these silver crowns, bearing the head of George V, were minted in 1935. The auctioneer said that recently rising values priced the coins about £3OO each. Five minutes after the catalogued crown was sold for £3OO a member of the audience offered a second crown, which brought £5O more. A 1956 penny, scarce because it has no shoulder strap on the bust of Queen Elizabeth 11, sold for £lO. In the weapons section, a rare dragoon sword, used by British cavalry from about 1796 until the Battle of Waterloo, fetched £l6 10s.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 12
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131Rare Coins Sold Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31084, 13 June 1966, Page 12
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