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Auction: 23006 - The Official COINEX Auction at Spink
Lot: 483

(g) The Dr Frank Becker Collection | NGC AU53 | Second Anglo-Boer War, Z.A.R., Schalk Burger, 'Pilgrims Rest Coin' or 'Veld' Pond, 1902, by Philippus Johannes Kloppers for the Makeshift Transvaal 'Long Grass' Mint [Mpumalanga], EEN POND in cursive script, rev. ZAR monogram above date, edge milled, 8.20g, 12h (Hern Z54; Fb. 4; KM 11), evidence of previous mounting, usual die lines and adjustment marks, otherwise good very fine, an iconic South African issue, and extremely rare with only 986 originally minted, in NGC holder, graded AU53 (Cert. #6767902-003)

Provenance

The Dr Frank Becker Collection of World Coins

Christie's Auction 278 ['Larissa'], 29 April 1976, lot 141 - "nearly very fine and rare has possibly been in a clasp mount, otherwise very fine and rare" - £720 [Becker]

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Sold for
£4,800

Starting price
£2500