Strand Coins

08/02/2025

💥 Sale 301 is LIVE at Smalls Auctions End TODA! 💥
Don’t miss the chance to own pieces of history in this extraordinary auction! 🌟 Featuring two exceptional Gold Pattern Shillings—an undated Victoria Gold Pattern Shilling from the John Gloag Murdoch Collection and an 1863 Victoria Gold Pattern Shilling from the King Farouk Collection. 🏆
Also on offer: a rare trio of consecutive Cyprus ‘Specimens’ banknotes and Van Diemen’s Land Promissory Notes—some of the finest surviving examples of early Australian Colonial Currency. 🏛️
Bidding Ends:09/02/25

06/02/2025

🎯 Bid on History with Smalls Auctions Sale 301 🎯
Get ready for unparalleled collectibles—including two iconic Gold Pattern Shillings and rare Cyprus ‘Specimen’ banknotes. 🏆
This is your chance to own part of the legendary John Gloag Murdoch Collection and King Farouk Collection. Plus, don’t miss the chance to add Van Diemen’s Land Promissory Notes—some of the most significant early Australian Colonial Currency—to your collection. 💎
300+ lots of coins, banknotes, jewelry, and more await you. Start bidding today! ⏳
Auction Ends: 09/02/25

05/02/2025

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🔑 Unlock Rare History with Smalls Auctions 🔑
Sale 301 brings you rare and exceptional collectibles, including two legendary Gold Pattern Shillings and a trio of Cyprus ‘Specimen’ banknotes. 🏅
Our collection also includes Van Diemen’s Land Promissory Notes, a true treasure for collectors of early Australian currency. 🪙
With over 300 lots available, now’s your chance to bid on exclusive coins, historical medals, jewelry, and more. ✨
Bidding Ends: 09/02/25

24/04/2023

Strand Coins can definitly say that it was worth the trip to the Hong Kong Coin Show 2023. The onsite PCGS Coin Fair Grading was available and very fast, efficient & professional! Our coins were graded in no time! Happy Times!!!
We had an amazing time meeting the team at PCGS Asia Hong Kong. Thank you!

10/01/2019

Ned Kelly blows his own horn ! -

It’s probably because of Australia’s convict heritage that a bushranger who was hanged for murder sits atop its pantheon of folk heroes. Ned Kelly is remembered as an under-dog who took on authority and, in his signature iron helmet he remains as instantly recognisable today as a symbol of Austr...

04/01/2019

Smalls Auctions Sale 38 is on tomorrow at 11am ! -

02/01/2019

Donald Friend – a true Renaissance Man ? -

The acclaimed Australian artist Donald Friend was also an avid diarist whose intimate recording of his life has led inextricably to a loss of respect for his art since his death. The National Library of Australia commenced publishing the diaries in 2001 and, the unvarnished accounts of his pederasti...

28/12/2018

One week to go until Smalls Auctions Sale 38 ! -

25/12/2018

The War takes its toll on Mr Littlefield – second time round. -

The reverse design of the China Medal echoes the Orient as is appropriate seeing it was awarded to British and Imperial forces for action during the ‘Boxer Rebellion’ of 1900. Western missionaries and Chinese Christians were under attack from a group calling themselves the ‘Righteous and Harmo...

21/12/2018

Smalls Auctions Sale 38 is now online ! -

18/12/2018

Daniel Solander’s fifteen minutes of fame – two hundred years too late! -

Solander had studied at Uppsala University in Sweden under the famous naturalist Linnaeus and had brought to England a revolutionary scientific system devised by his teacher which categorised different plant species with the ‘binomial’ (two-part) Latin names which are still used today.

13/12/2018

The Gold Coronation Medal of Edward VII – what goes around comes around. -

The recipient of this medal, Thomas Hughes was born in Sydney in 1863 and as the son of a wealthy grazier was sent to England to be educated at Stonyhurst College. He returned to Sydney and in 1887 established a legal practice ‘Hughes and Hughes’ with his elder brother John. Both considered them...