The numismatic chronicle and journal of the Royal Numismatic Society

MISCELLANEA. 175
St. George, with pendant badge turned to 1., edge plain, 3 10s.
Of the gold coins of Victoria there were sold a pattern five-pound
piece, 1889, by Wyon, bust of Queen to 1., with ornamented
diadem and plain fillet, rev. DIRIGIT . DEVS, &c., Queen as
Una leading lion, no garter on shoulder, 13 10s. ; another of
same date, but with fillet ornamented, rev. DIRIGE . DEVS .,
similar type and garter on shoulder, 12 10s.; a pattern quarter-
SOVEREIGN, royal arms,
sovereign, 1853, rev. . QUARTER
crowned, dividing date, 14 and a ; five-shilling piece, 1853,
rev. FIVE . SHILLINGS . 1853, in three lines, under a crown,
below, rose, thistle and shamrock, 14 10s. There were a few
Greek coins, among which was a fine Syracusan medallion or
decadrachm of the usual type, but no artist's signature, 30.
BALE COLLECTION. In the large collection of works of art
formed by Mr. Charles Sackville Bale, recently sold by public
auction by Messrs. Christie, Hanson, and Woods, there were
some rare Greek and English coins, as well as a few English
medals, and a very fine series of cinque-cento Italian medals.
This portion of the collection was sold at King Street on the
30th and 81st May last, and comprised the following remarkable
lots. Among the Greek coins, a medallion or decadrachm
of Syracuse, with scallop shell behind head of Persephone, no
artist's name, 18 ; another, with scallop shell, and very fine,
48 ; another, with hair in sphendone and A0AA on reverse,
56 also a tetradrachm of same ; place, with [APE0JOZA,
full-faced head of Arethusa, with KIMflN on diadem, rev.
ZYPAK . ZlflN, quadriga, and Victory on two of the horses'
heads, in ex. ear of corn, 185. Of gold coins a stater of
Bruttii, with head of Neptune to 1., behind, trident, rev.
BPETTIflN, nereid seated on hippocamp, in front, cornu-
copia, 24 10s. and another of ; Nicocles, King of Cyprus,
BA, female head to 1., diademed, &c., rev. NI . female , head
turreted to 1., 117. Among the English coins there was only
one coin of particular note. This was a specimen of Simon's
Petition Crown, which realised 215. (This coin was originally
presented to the Lord Chancellor Clarendon, and was in its
original case.) The only English medal of any particular note
was one in gold of General Monke as Lord General, by Thomas
Simon, obv. head of Monke, rev. name and date 1660 in seven
lines, 78 10s. Among the Italian there were some very fine
specimens of early castings, of which were a medal of Vittoriuo
da Feltre, the mathematician, by Pisano, with rev. pelican
feeding its young ones, 49 7s. ; a fine casting of a medal of
Nicolo Piccinino by Pisano, with rev. winged griffin with
PERVSIA inscribed on collar, but with no legend on obv.,
19 19s. ; others of Bartolommeo Colleone, by Guidiziani, rev,