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Auction: 3014 - Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Commemorative Medals
Lot: 330

James III,Italian made pierced copper or brass touchpiece, 2.42g. three masted ship in full sail right, iac.iii.d.g.m.b. f:et h.r. finely executed, larger lettering, toothed border both sides, rev.struck en medaille, St. Michael killing dragon left, tongue visible, soli.deo gloria. (MIii 316/140; Woolf 35), part of border rim mistruck, almost extremely fine and very rare Estimate £ 150-200 provenance W Talbot Ready, Sotheby, 19 November 1920, lot 789 part Helen Farquhar, Glendining, 25 April 1955, lot 195pt.

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