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 CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Curious GoLLECtlON 
 
 O F 
 
 COINS and MEDALS, 
 
 yames Michell Hannott, Efq; 
 
 Late of R Y E - H A L t, in the County 
 of E S SEXj 
 
 DeceafeUi 
 
 Whiph will be fold by AUCTION, 
 
 By Mr. Langford and Son, 
 
 At their Houfe in the Gteat Piazza^ 
 Covent Garden, 
 
 On Saturday the 24th of this Inflant 
 February 1770. * ^ 
 
 I. : 
 
 The faid Colle^ion may be viewed on Thursday the 
 22d Inftant, and to the Time of Sale, which will begin 
 pundlually at T welve o’Clock. 
 
 Catalogues of which may be then had gratis at Mr. 
 L A N G F o R d’s aforefaid. 
 
Conditions of S A L E. 
 
 H E high eft Bidder is to be the Buyer 
 i and if any Bi^fute fhall arife between 
 any two or more Bidders^ the Lot fo . difputed lhall 
 be immediately put up again^ and refold, 
 
 idly^t No P erf on to advance lefs than 6d, under a 
 Pound above a Pound is% above Five Pounds 
 tod. and fo on in Proportion. 
 
 ^dly^ The Pur chafers are to give in* their Names 
 and Places of Abode^ and to pay down Five Shillings 
 in the Pound (if required) in Part of Payment of 
 the Purchafe Money ; in Default of which, the 
 Lot or Lots fo pur chafed^ to be immediately put up 
 sgain and refold. 
 
 Arthly., The Lots lhall be fetched away with 
 all Faults, at the BuyeP^ Expence^ within One 
 .i)ay after the Sale , and the Remainder of the 
 Purchafe Money absolutely paid on or before 
 the Delivery , 
 
 Laftly^ Upon Failure of complying with the above 
 Conditions^ the Money fo depojited in Part of Pay- 
 menty fhall be forfeited-, the Lots uncleared within the 
 One Bay as aforefaid, fhall be refold, by publick 
 private Sale, and xhtBeficieng (if any) together 
 with all Charges attending fuch Ref ale, fhall be made 
 go^d by the ’Defaulters at this Sde. 
 
Saturday, February 24 , 
 
 1770, 
 
 Brafs and Copper, 
 
 Lot 
 
 1 \ Parcel of medals, coins, jettons, &c. Englifh, 
 
 and Foreign — 
 
 2 Medals of Paul II. Clement X. Sir Edmond Godfrey, 
 
 Coypel, Stanidaus, and 21 more, tome copper, 
 forhe lead — — — 
 
 3 Ten fine medals of Lewis XV. and 2 jettons of ditto 
 
 4 One hundred and two town pieces, and tradefmens half- 
 
 pence and farthingi 
 
 5 A compleat fet of the tin money of Charles II, James II. 
 
 and William and Mary — — 
 
 6 A ^atuor Maria, halfpenny of Charles If. his farthing 
 
 ditto, with the wig, and a fim Britannia halfpenny 
 
 7 A rare pattern farthing of Charles II. with Momt^ 
 
 Inftaurator 1662, on its edge . .. . .. 
 
 8 A fine farthing of Queen Anne’s, a proof halfpenny of 
 
 George II. and a fcarce farthing of William and 
 Pv'lary, 1689 — 
 
 9 Queen Anne’s farthing, and 23 ofher halfpence, &c. 
 
 Englifti, Scotch, and Irifli * 
 
 10 A fine medal of Sir Robert Walpole, icf the Duke of Ar- 
 
 gyle, and i of the Queen of Hungary, all by Dafiier 
 
 1 1 Ditto of Lord Carteret, i)r. Barker, and Burlamaque, 
 
 ditto — — 
 
 J2 Ditto of the Earl of Bath, the Earl of Chefterfield, and 
 I of the city of Geneva - — — — — 
 
 13 Two rare medals of Elizabeth, daughter of James I. 
 with her hufhand’s head on the reverfe, both dif- 
 ferent <— — — 
 
 SILVER COINS. 
 
 \i. Five rare Britilh and Gallic coins, with inferiptions 
 15 Six ditto, all different and rare — 
 
 ib Five more different ditto 
 
 A 2 
 
 »7 
 
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 C 4 1 
 
 ^'^/cP^I7 A very fine CunobeKne, with a horfeman and ^afcio, 
 ^ copper with his head infcribed, CunobeUnef 
 
 f ' ^ reverfe tne mint mailer and Ta/doy both <very rare 
 
 SAXON COINS. 
 
 18 A rare unptibliljied penny of Egbert : \ 
 
 19 Another ditto diiferent — — i 
 
 20 A penny of Edward the Elder, t ofEdwIg, 1 of Bur- 
 
 gred, 1 of Edred, and 1 of Fd ward the Confedbr 5 
 •^9 A line Canute, i of Edgar, s of Edmund, i of Ethel- 
 
 red, and ii of the Cen felTor — 
 
 '*^^0 One of Canute, 3 of Etheircd^ i of Edred, i of 
 
 Edgar, and a Cenfeffor, with the ^hair 5 
 
 ENGLISH COINS. 
 
 % I IX^illiam the Conqueror, a penny, with the canopy. 
 
 I with two feepters, and i of William Rufus 
 32 Henry I. ditto llruck at Ccichelter, <very rare \ 
 
 2^ Ditto with Pax, n^eryrare — l 
 
 24 Stephen, a fine penny, with full Ece j 
 
 25 Henry It. a penny, 1 of John, and 6 of Henry 111. g 
 
 26 Henry HI. an exceeding rare proof halfpenny, and 
 
 1 of Edyvar 4 I, 
 
 27 Edward I. fnd II. pennies of Robert de Had eie, Ber- 
 
 wick, Newcaire, St. Edmundfbury, Lincoln, &:c. 
 
 I~; g halfpence, 1 farthing, a groat, and half 
 groat, a penny, an halfpenny and farthing of Ed- 
 ward Hi. ^ — - — — 25 
 
 28 Richard 111 . a groat (very rare) a penny and half- 
 
 penny - — 3 
 
 29 Henry IV. V. and VI. and Edward IV. 2 groats, iv.'O 
 
 half groats, fix pennies, and ; halfpennies 16. 
 
 30 Henry VI, a fne gold falute, ilruck in Paris as king 
 
 pf France, rare I 
 
 31 Richard IE a groat — — I 
 
 32 Henry Vli. and FIJI. 3 groats, 2 half groats, and 
 
 2 pennies, feme rare r— r*. ' 9. 
 
 33 Henry VJII. a line lelioon of good fil er . i 
 
 34 Edward VI, crown, half crown, a Ihiiiing and fix- 
 
 pence — 4 
 
 33 — — - — — Eb/'rsci fxrence, rare, a three pence, a 
 
 fair telioon and bale penny 4 
 
 5 6 A teiloon with Timer^ Sec. on the head fide, and three 
 
 * others of different hncnelTes 4 
 
 -- Tv.? 
 
r 5 1 
 
 37 Philip and Mary, 9 ihillings, 1 fix*peace« i groai, and a 
 milled (hilling, a ^xpence, a groat, a three-pence, 
 and a two-pence of Elizabeth — — 
 
 5 * Elizabeth, a crown, an half crown, Shilling, fix-pence, 
 groat, three-pence, two-pence, a penny, and an 
 halfpenny • 
 
 39 A three farthing piece, rare, and a three halfpenny 
 
 piece — - ■ — - 
 
 40 An exceeding fine milled Ihilling, with the garnilhed 
 
 Ihield, •verj rare — —— — 
 
 41 James I crown, half crown, 3 {hillings, ^ fix-pcnces, 
 2 pennies, and an halfpenny 
 
 42 
 
 43 
 
 44 
 
 45 
 
 4 ^ 
 
 47 
 
 48 
 
 49 
 
 50 
 
 a very fine {hilling and a two-pence 
 Charles I. three crowns, 3 Ihillingi, 3 fix-pences, two 
 two-pences, and 2 pennies of the Tower mint 
 ———crown, half crown, 2 {hillings, 2 groats, one 
 three-pence, 2 two-pences, and a penny of the Ex- 
 eter, York and Aberithwic mints 
 
 — — r* crown, half crown, {hilling, fix-pence, two- 
 pence, and a penny of Brioc’s — ^ — > 
 
 crown, half crown (rare) fhilling, fix pence, 
 
 and groat ot Exeter mint — — — 
 
 fix-pence, and 
 
 crown, 
 
 , half crown, {hilling, fix pence, 
 
 groat, three-pence, two pence and penny milled 
 
 his crown, with a rofe, by Roticr, 
 
 preferred - 
 
 — another crown, without the rofe, very fine 
 
 James II, crown, half crovvn, fiiiliing, fix-pence, 
 groat, threc-peace, two-pence, and penny 
 William and Mzr/, crown, 3 half crowns, {hilling, 
 fix-pence, groat, three-peace, two-pence, and 
 
 10 
 
 z 
 
 19 
 
 — — — crown, half crown, 2 Ihiilings, i fix-pence, 
 
 2 gi'oaiLS- and i three-pence of Oxford mint 
 — — — XX fiiillings, and x {billing pieces of ditto 
 
 — r a Scotch crown (Briot’s, fine / half crown, eight . 
 
 iliil'ings, the xl and xx penoy pjeces Scotch 
 Two Pontefradl {hillings, half crown, {hilling, See. 
 nine-penceof Nqwarke, and a fet of New England 
 
 ^ money 
 
 5JK(Commonwealth crown, half crown,-»fnijiing, fix-penee, 
 two-pence, penny, and halfpenny, a fine fet 
 52 Oliver Cromwell, acrown, halfcrown, and fliiUing,_/5«tf 
 
 5 3 his crown ftruck in HolIand,^«f^ pr^-^ 
 
 ferved ■ - ■ ■ - — - 1 
 
 54 Charles II. an half crown, 2 {hilling: 
 
 10 others of the hammer’d 
 
 55 
 
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 57 
 
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 59 
 
 9 
 
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 penny 
 
 6c William III, crown to the penny 
 
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 61 William 
 
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 6l' WrUiAra III. half crown and fix-pence, with the 
 
 feathcrsv- and fix-pence with rofes, n^jell prejernjed 3 
 
 63 proof crown, finely prefierH)ed 1 
 
 63. Anne, crown, half crown, fiiifling, fix-pence, groat, 
 
 three- pence, two-pence, and penny, plain 8 
 
 64 crown, half crown, fiiiiling, and fix-pence, rpfe 
 
 and feathers — - 
 
 65 George I. from the crown to the penny 
 
 66 George II. ditto, rofe and feathers 
 
 67 crown, half crown, fliilling, and fix* pence, 
 
 Lima -5—.- 
 
 ^8 proof crown, and half crown, fiine 
 
 69 Scotch coins from William L to Charles IL vvt. 3 oz. 
 
 4 dwt. 
 
 70 Englifn of feveral princes, different wt. 12 oz. 
 
 71 Charles il. crown, with elephant, 5 half crowns, feven 
 
 fiiillings, 4 fix-pences, and feme fmall milled 
 money -r- ^r-. 
 
 Englijh Silver Medah, 
 
 7,2 A fmall medal of Edward VL with a loop, rare 
 *73 Briot’s Scotch coronation medal of Charles 1 . with 
 
 EX AVRO VT IN SCOTIA REPERTITVR BRIOT FECIT 
 
 1633, on its edge, cxin 7 {iely rare I 
 
 .74 Charles I. with Charles II. on horfeback, on the re- 
 
 verfe, by B*“iot, fitiely prejer'-ued '1 
 
 73 On his return from Scotland, and 4 others — — 5 
 
 .76 A fine medal of Mrs. Ciaypole, daughter of Oliver 
 
 Cromwell, by A. Simon, <very rare . ^ 
 
 77 Ditto of Alderman Brown, non yir sed virtvs. r 
 
 N. B. the arms on the reverfe, different from that 
 in Vertue — i 
 
 78 A fmall ditto, fuppofed to be General Monk, by- 
 
 A. Simon . i 
 
 79 A fine copy of Blake’s gold premium medal, with the 
 
 border, by Simon, i 
 
 80 Charles the Second's medal on the reftoraticn, with 
 
 tandem riyerescit, by Simon, rare — i 
 
 81 Charles the Second’s pattern piece, reverfe the arms, 
 
 florent CONCORDIA REGNA, by Simoxi, finely pre- 
 
 fiernjed — • - 1 
 
 ^2 — ~ medal cn the Dutch war, fia^ente 
 
 t)cOy f^ne M 
 
 the reverie, and i of Catherine, with St. Catherine 
 
 84 James- • 
 
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 B4 James Duke of York, with the head of his dutchels 
 on the reverfe by Bower, Jinely prefernjed and <very 
 
 rare — — 
 
 85 James IL with the head of the chevalier on the reverfe, 
 
 and a jetton of ditto, fine — 
 
 S6 Earl of Shaftefbury on his relcafement from the Tower 
 
 87 A fine medal on the peace of Breda 
 
 88 A fmall medal of William ill. the marriage jetton of 
 
 Charles I. and the fcarce fix-pence of George II. 
 with feathers, all finely prefer<v'c( 
 
 89 Anne’s medals on the taking of Bon, Vigo, Lifle, and 
 
 the large one on the union, fincy wt 3 oz, 19 dwt. 
 
 90 Ditto on the battle of Ramelies, taking of Bon, Vigo, 
 
 on the peace, and i of George I. on his paffing 
 thro’ London, wt. 302. 18 dwt. 
 
 91 The coronation medals of Charles I. Charles IL 
 
 James II, and his queen, William and Mary, Anne, 
 George I. George II. and Queen Caroline, wt. 
 40Z. 6 dwt. J2gr. 
 
 92 Two fine paduan medals of Animefia, reverfe the 
 
 maufoleum, and 1 of Alexander the Great 
 
 93 A ferew box, made out of a crown of Charles JI. with 
 
 9 more medals and jettons 
 
 94 A medal on the maflacre of John and Cornelius, 
 
 De W'itte, wt. 3 02. 9 dwt. 
 
 95 Foreign coins of feveral countries, wt. 30 oz. 
 
 96 Roman, Euglifh, foreign, &c. wt. 6oz. 17 dwt- 
 
 97 A medal of Erafmus, i of Schwartz, and 6 more, wt. 
 
 3 oz. 2 dwt. 
 
 98 T wenty-two Roman denarii of Fauftina, Lucilla, CriL 
 
 pina, &c. and 8 brafs > — . 
 
 99 Medals of Martin Luther, Melanchton, Pidfet, Guf* 
 
 tavus Adolphus, Julius Csefar, &c. wt. 40Z. 
 
 100 Seven Englifli and foreign medals, wt. 3 oz 14 dwt. 
 
 10 1 Fifteen very neat cards for medals, gilt 
 
 
 
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 FINIS. 
 

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