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№ 1174

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7 October 2004

Hammer Price:
£280

Cambridgeshire, Cambridge, Skidmore’s Globe series, Penny, 1797, Trinity College Gate, rev. similar, edge lettered, 19.14g/12h (DH 5 and Middlesex 119). Brilliant and practically as struck with full original colour (£120-150)

Provenance:
Fawcett/Litman Collection.

Trinity College was founded by Henry VIII in 1546; the chapel dates from 1555