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PRESS RELEASE:

George Manz Coin Auctions presents Auction #3

 

Mid-Island Coin Club member George Manz has announced that the Regina Coin Club's Fall Fair will be the venue for the third in a series of auctions by George Manz Coin Auctions. The auction includes Part II of the famed Roy Miller Collection, a Regina-based coin collector and dealer for more than 50 years.

The first lot among 184 in the Auction is an antoninianus of Gordian III, the child who became Caesar and Augustus of the Roman Empire at age 13. Struck in AD 240-244, the silver coin is in uncirculated condition.

World coins include a French Crusader coin struck for Charles II of Anjou in the 13th century; a nicely toned 2-Franc coin struck for Napoleon Bonaparte in 1810 in Paris; a British 1745 shilling marked LIMA below George II's bust to indicate it was produced from captured Spanish treasure; an attractive Irish 1805 Bank of Ireland 5-pence token; uncirculated examples of the 1929 half-puffin and one-puffin from the island of Lundy; and a 1967 New Zealand 2-cents muled with a Bahamas 5-cents.

Many Canadian coins are included in the October 20th auction in Regina , including numerous ICCS certified and graded coins as well as the most attractively toned 1982 Regina Centennial silver dollar the auctioneer has ever seen.

The auction also features a large assortment of Newfoundland coinage, including a 1940 Re-engraved cent.

Several ICCS certified Breton tokens head the list of pre-Confederation tokens at auction, while a large rectangular wooden nickel issued in Malden , Massachusetts in 1949 is expected to see spirited bidding.

Medals are one of the highlights at the auction, including six Edward VIII pattern crowns from Australia, India and New Zealand; a French medal commemorating the world's first hot air balloon tests by the Montgolfier Brothers; an unlisted Queen Victoria Diamond Jubilee medal; and an enameled 1902 Coronation medal of Edward VII and Queen Alexandra.

Canadian paper money includes one of each of the three different 1870 25-cents shinplasters, and numerous replacement notes and radar notes.

Military medals and badges, collectables from the RCMP, edged weapons, numismatic books, coin show displays, and a brass CNA Life Membership to Hans Zoell, round out the 184 lots in the auction.

The auction will take place at the Regina Coin Club's Fall Show on October 20 at the Western Christian College in Regina . Lots can be viewed in the bourse from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. , while the auction begins at 7:00 p.m.

Those wishing to receive the auction catalogue by e-mail should send their e-mail address to George Manz at: george@georgemanzcoins.com The catalogue can also be viewed at: www.georgemanzcoins.com There is no buyer's fee in this auction.

Wayne Jacobs is a numismatic expert. Currently secretary and editor of the "Mid-Island Coin Club Numismatic Journal"of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island , British Columbia, he is the award winning author of numerous articles. The MICC journal are hosted here: MICC webpages Copyright 2006 Wayne Jacobs. This article may be reprinted freely for non commercial purpose only if the resource box is left intact, linking back to us.