assortment of 650 coins, tokens, historical medals and paper funds from Wiltshire is expected to promote for £20,000 at public sale

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A late numismatist's coin assortment is expected to fetch a whopping £20,000 at auction. 

Over the direction of fifty two years, accountant David Ward, of Bulford, Wiltshire, accumulated nearly 650 cash, tokens, old medals and paper funds. 

The assortment centres on Wiltshire and comprises a infrequent 1796 medal that includes Stonehenge and the ancient druids, which is determined to promote for between £500 and £seven-hundred.

meanwhile a penny from the reign of William I that was minted in Salisbury is set to fetch an analogous expense.  

Mr Ward, who died prior this year, began accumulating as a teenager in 1968.

His life-long collection will be bought on September 30 at auctioneers Dix Noonan Webb in 136 lots. 

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The assortment covers cities and cities in Wiltshire equivalent to Salisbury, Wilton, Bradford- upon-Avon, Chippenham, Devizes, Calne, Highworth, Amesbury, Trowbridge, Malmesbury, Marlborough and Swindon, but additionally iconic landmarks. 

Peter Preston-Morley, head of the coin branch at Dix Noonan Webb, spoke of: 'The Ward collection of Wiltshire 17th-century tokens, numbering 246 different kinds and 33 duplicates, is the 2d tremendous community of the county to be bought in these rooms in 2021.

'It contains many pieces absent from the late Robert Thompson's assortment and is to be commended to these seeking to fill gaps within the county series.'

additionally in the sale are cash gathered by using John Akins, together with an exceedingly infrequent halfcrown for the Douglas financial institution Co, Isle of Man. 

This coin dates from 1811 and is expected to fetch between £2,four hundred and £3,000 while a extremely rare five shilling coin from Chichester, courting from 1811, might promote for up to £2,600.

coins collected through Seattle-born invoice McKivor are additionally being bought and contains a infrequent 1792 trial copper halfpenny from Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire, this is tipped to fetch £1,500.

additionally in his assortment is a pretty proof halfpenny from 1797 depicting Gloucester & Berkeley Canal Co which might reach £800.

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