NUMISMATIC NUGGETS: APRIL 18, 2021

Anonymous. Ca. 225-214/212 B.C. AR quadrigatus (24.5 mm, 6.67 g, 7 h). Rome mint. Laureate janiform head / Jupiter, holding scepter in his left hand and hurling his thunderbolt from his right, standing right in a quadriga, driven to the right by Victory who stands beside him; below, tablet inscribed with ROMA in incuse letters. Crawford 29/3; Sydenham 64A. Nice EF. Spectacular.

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Lot 144. Anonymous. Ca. 225-214/212 B.C. AR quadrigatus. Rome mint. Spectacular. From the Trausnitz Collection, ex Lanz 68, 6 June 1994, 280. (https://agoraauctions.com/listing/viewdetail/51138)

1801 U.S. Large Cent
Countermarked "J. WORSLEY" (raised letters within an arc)
Brunk W-888.
Ex. Q. David Bowers collection.

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1801 U.S. Large Cent Counterstamp "J. WORSLEY" (Raised Letters within Arc) (https://www.ebay.com/itm/1801-U-S-Large-Cent-Counterstamp-J-WORSLEY-Raised-Letters-within-Arc/133723741400)

ALGERIA: French Colony, brass brothel token (4.60g), ND, Lec-191, 29mm, facing head of cat, * AU CHAT NOIR * IMPASSE RENE CAILLE 2 ALGER // * MAISON JEANNE, 2.R. RENE-CAILLE BLIND ALLEY ALGIERS, VF-EF, R, ex Gregory J. Cole Collection. Prostitution was legal in French Algeria, but heavily regulated. An 1830 decree required sex workers to be registered with the Police Commissioner and examined twice every month, and further restricted their travel outside of the city. In 1946, the morality police recorded 46 brothels, 79 hotels, 600 furnished apartments, and a hundred clandestine houses used for prostitution in Algiers alone. Most examples of the Chat Noir tokens were issued by Maison Jouany, with Maison Jeanne being rarer.

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ALGERIA: French Colony, brass brothel token (4.60g), ND. VF-EF (https://www.sarc.auction/ALGERIA-French-Colony-brass-brothel-token-4-60g-ND-VF-EF_i40779942)

Westminster Abbey, large gold Medal, 1965, struck in 22ct gold to mark the 900th anniversary of Westminster Abbey, facing busts of figures related to Westminster Abbey: Edward the Confessor, King Henry III, Henry Yevele (master mason), John Islip (abbot), Queen Elizabeth I, Henry Purcell (organist and composer), Dr. Richard Busby (headmaster of Westminster School), Nicholas Hawksmoor (surveyor and architect), Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (Dean), and Eric Symes Abbott (the then-Dean), rev. view of Westminster Abbey, 900 YEARS in upper left, WESTMINSTER ABBEY in exergue, edge with hallmarks, dates 1065-1965 and issue no. 706, 57mm, 125.00g (E-2107). Some minor hairline scratches, otherwise largely as struck and accompanied by original Royal Mint blue leatherette case and certificate of authenticity.

Certificate of authenticity number 706 out of 900 pieces produced.

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WESTMINSTER ABBEY 1965 GOLD MEDAL

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