TWO SINGLE-OWNER COLLECTIONS OF BRITISH COINS ARE 100% SOLD AT DIX NOONAN WEBB

Two important Single-owner collections of British Coins were 100% sold in a sale of Coins on Wednesday, March 10, 2021 at International coins, medals, banknotes and jewellery specialists Dix Noonan Webb.

The sale saw strong prices throughout, with the highest price being paid for a Proof Gothic Crown from the reign of Queen Victoria, that dated from 1847 and sold for £11,160. Estimated to fetch £3,000-4,000, it was bought by a Japanese collector who was bidding against another Far East competitor [lot 295]. This was being sold as part of the ‘Fleet’ Collection of British Milled Silver Coins which comprised 324 lots and fetched £165,763.

Two other interesting items from the ‘Fleet’ Collection were two extremely rare halfcrowns, also from the reign of Queen Victoria – one dating from 1841, the other 1839 - which fetched £7,440 and £5,704 respectively [lots 330 and 328].

The Martyn Alan Eeley-Hardcastle Collection of British Coins comprised 240 lots and fetched £112,567. The highest price of the collection was paid for a very rare Elizabeth II (1952-) Proof Crown dating from 1953 which sold for £2,976 to Private Collector against an estimate of £1,000-1,500 [lot 229].

Elsewhere in the sale, which comprised 844 lots and was 99.5% sold was an Elizabeth II Proof set also from 1953, which sold for £8,060 to a Japanese Collector. It had been consigned someone from the UK and was estimated at £1,000-1,200 [lot 614].

*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THE PRICES INCLUDE 24% BUYERS’ PREMIUM***

FORTHCOMING SALES AT DNW
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 - ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA
TUESDAY, APRIL 6 – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 7 - COINS AND HISTORICAL MEDALS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14 - ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA
TUESDAY, MAY 4 – WEDNESDAY, MAY 5 – COINS, TOKENS AND HISTORICAL MEDALS
WEDNESDAY, MAY 19 - ORDERS, DECORATIONS, MEDALS AND MILITARIA
THURSDAY, MAY 27 - BRITISH, IRISH AND WORLD BANKNOTES
TUESDAY, JUNE 15 - JEWELLERY, WATCHES, ANTIQUITIES & OBJECTS OF VERTU

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NOTES TO EDITORS:
Dix Noonan Webb – a brief history
In 1991, its first year of trading, the company held three medal auctions and sold 1,200 lots for a total hammer price of £553,000. Two years later it opened a coin department which also auctions commemorative medals and tokens and in 2015 DNW added jewellery to its sales calendar. In 2018, it set up a standalone banknotes department and expanded into premises next door. In the same year, DNW achieved a total hammer price of £11,676,580 and the total number of lots across all departments was 20,273. To date the company has sold in excess of 300,000 lots totalling £155 million.

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MARCH 2021