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Lot

№ 141 x

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7 October 2009

Hammer Price:
£300

Essex, Woodford, William Brooks, Denton’s mule Farthing, 1796, compasses, wheel, saw and axe, rev. Prince of Wales’ feathers, edge plain, 4.02g/6h (DH 43; Judson 1055). Brilliant and practically as struck, full original colour, extremely rare £300-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Late Robinson S. Brown Jr Collection.

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Provenance: A.W. Jan Collection; Dr D.L. Spence Collection, Part I, DNW Auction 63, 7 October 2004, lot 1240 [from Baldwin]; bt J.A. Bobbe November 2004.

Struck from the centres of the dies used to execute DH 40