Baldwin's Auction 64-65 Baldwin's hosts a two-day auction including lots from The Michael Hall Collection, The Strickland Neville Rolfe Collection and The Bishop’s Wood Hoard of Roman Coins.
had five sons and four daughters. In 1833 he married Dorothy, widow of the Rev TT Thomason, Chaplain to the Honourable East India Company. Strickland Rolfe died in 1852. Heacham Hall was destroyed by fire in 1941, whilst being occupied by the RAF. The numismatic collection has remained in the hands of descendents and represents a snapshot of the tastes and interests of an educated country gentleman and divine. The English coins span three centuries and include some key rarities, such as the pattern “Incorrupta” and “Three Graces” crowns, as well as some rare and interesting coppers. It is amazing to think that these were probably acquired soon after they were issued, which would account for their remarkable state of preservation.
Estimate: £10,000-15,000
1590 The Strickland Neville Rolfe Collection. World Coins. Pre-Federal America. Rose Americana Twopence, undated (1722), motto on label, bath metal, 13.35g (Breen 88). Somewhat double-struck (apparent behind hair), otherwise sharp and problem-free with pleasing light tone, about uncirculated and thus rare. Strickland Charles Edward Neville Rolfe was born in 1789, eldest son of General Neville of the Royal Artillery. He assumed the name and arms of Rolfe by royal warrant in 1837, upon receiving the bequest of the estates at Heacham and Sedgeford, from Edmund Rolfe, a distant relative who had no issue. Educated at Wadham College, Oxford, BA 1812, MA 1816, he was ordained in 1814. He became domestic chaplain to the Duke of Kent in 1814 and to the Duke of Somerset in 1825. He was appointed vicar of Heacham in Norfolk in1838. His first wife, Agnes, was the only daughter of Henry Fawcett, MP for Carlisle. They married in 1814 and had five sons and four daughters. In 1833 he married Dorothy, widow of the Rev TT Thomason, Chaplain to the Honourable East India Company. Strickland Rolfe died in 1852. Heacham Hall was destroyed by fire in 1941, whilst being occupied by the RAF. The numismatic collection has remained in the hands of descendents and represents a snapshot of the tastes and interests of an educated country gentleman and divine. The English coins span three centuries and include some key rarities, such as the pattern “Incorrupta” and “Three Graces” crowns, as well as some rare and interesting coppers. It is amazing to think that these were probably acquired soon after they were issued, which would account for their remarkable state of preservation.
Estimate: £1000-1500
1622 Cyprus under Venice : Re-coinage of 1518. 8-Bezants. Sultan Selim I (918-926H; AD 1512-1520), Gold Altin, 3.35g, 925H (AD 1519), Misr (Egypt), obv control figure “9” or “6” near the edge, rev numeral “8” countermarked near edge (Pitsillides 34; Olçer p.165, 9630-9631 for host coin; Pere -). Coin struck off-centre, coin and countermark good very fine and extremely rare. Only the second known example on an Ottoman coin. This coin ties in with the coinage reform initiated in Venice 1518. It is struck a year later than the other recorded Ottoman Altin of Misr published by Michael Broome in
